For those whose exposure to hip-hop doesn’t extend far beyond the Hamilton soundtrack, there was a rush to Spotify and Apple Music when Kendrick Lamar ‘s album “Damn” won the Pulitzer Prize for music. While this announcement came as a […]
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Fast fashion is the darling of the fashion retail today. Whereas women’s clothing store sales have declined 2.7 percent from 2016-2017 in the U.S., a recent report from Hitwise shows the fast fashion market has grown has grown 21 percent
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Private label has always been around, but the quality and breadth of items available today are a far cry from the Brand-X macaroni and cheese in plain white boxes in the value sections of 1970s supermarkets. In fact, today we’re
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Could Jeff Bezos have a new strategy for his physical retailing plans: rent rather than own? Jeff Bezos may be outsmarting the rest of the retailing world…again. While everyone speculates on which physical retailer Amazon will buy next, Bezos may
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How many of you out there have been fired during the course of your career? How many of you have fired others? Having sat on both sides of the desk I can say unequivocally that while necessary, neither is a
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Ever since the success of Dollar Shave Club, which sold to Unilever for $1 billion, the subscription marketing model is viewed as the path to fame and fortune. With its promise to grow business with a loyal consumer base and
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Retail today continues to change at lightning speed, and technology is helping leaders to rewrite all the rules. Taking into account shifting consumer expectations and an unrelenting flood of data, a single digital core is essential to executing a winning
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Wait a second! Just last week I wrote on the race for global dominance between Amazon and Alibaba. And shame on me for not even mentioning Walmart, especially since I’ve been on a rant about how Walmart is rapidly becoming
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It’s good to be the king of the castle. It’s even better to be the king of the castle improvement business these days. Home Depot – let’s not forget they are the second largest retailing company in the country –
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What happens when an abundance of ambition meets empty execution? The result might be called “Lidl.” The truth is that Lidl, the discount grocer from Germany, has been opening stores in the U.S. for nearly a year now, but has
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