Welcome to the Amazonification of the global economy! Or, if you’re competitor—World War A. At this point, retailers are on Amazon overload, having wrung their hands raw over the acquisition of Whole Foods and speculation about what Amazon might do […]
I’ve often been criticized of late as being a harbinger of “death,” namely, a retail apocalypse or even worse, a technology tsunami about to break and wipe out every old world retailer in its path. In self-defense, it does seem
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I recently attended Shoptalk Europe in Copenhagen with 350 retail and retail tech CEOs and another 2,050 retail practitioners and investors who were interested in hearing what those CEOs had to say. Here are a few aha moments I had
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There’s such a dark cloud of bad news for most general merchandise and apparel retailers today that when I examined how The Children’s Place rose from the near-dead in 2010, made it through a tepid economic recovery, exacerbated by the
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Dear Reader, can we be frank with each other and just admit that the only reviews that are 100-percent legit are those by individuals who have ponied-up their own hard-earned cash to actually buy the product they’re commenting or posting
The opening of Nordstrom Local in West Hollywood, California, on October 3, is a visionary move, responding to the demanding consumer youth culture. Boldly innovative and counter-intuitive, there is no merchandise in store. It is a small (3000 square-feet), fun,
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Or…Is Amazon Envisioning a Future Acquisition of Kohl’s? I have to hand it to Kohl’s CEO, Kevin Mansell, and his team. The Midwestern Vince Lombardi mindset is usually associated with blocking, tackling and gaining a few yards up the middle.
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Over the centuries, retail has blossomed into an industry that supports millions of store employees, tens of millions of people in ancillary industries, and hundreds of millions of customers. It is at the heart of our cities and towns, and
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Anthropology is the study of how human societies interact. Anthropologie is a case study of how certain human societies shop for home products. What a difference a few letters make. Anthropologie, the upstairs neighbor in the Urban Outfitters hierarchy of
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Driving from the Jacksonville, Florida airport into downtown, you pass by one of Amazon’s new distribution centers: a mammoth building of more than a million square feet surrounded by a 5,000-place parking lot. It is a reminder that while e-commerce
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