What’s old is new again. It’s back to the future. Mobile phones are the new stores. These and many other metaphors reflect how the technology age is taking us back in time to century-old retail models. Living with technology on […]
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Now that the dust has settled on one of the greatest, most entertaining and knowledge-filled seminars in recent memory (the annual Robin Report and Fashion Group International seminar, held a couple of weeks ago), we can get down to understanding
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This Technology Age and the fundamental transformation it’s driving across all industries requires its leaders to have a marathon mentality — strategic, but with sprint-speed action, tactically. It’s a marathon because the transformative dynamics are enormously complex and will require
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Is this a great time for supermarkets to be rolling out new formats or expanding to new geography? The outlook for either isn’t too promising. As readers of “The Robin Report” well know, the industry has experienced the long goodbye
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Through all our coverage of millennials at the The Robin Report, one thread has stuck out constantly: millennials’ decisions about purchasing are complicated. Millennials want to belong to focused interest groups that make up a greater community of shared values.
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Newsflash for would-be entrepreneurs: It’s okay to exist in a protracted beta mode until you figure out your ultimate game plan. Especially if that beta mode includes maintaining a retail foothold in Bergdorf Goodman, enlisting Gwyneth Paltrow as a brand
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Coming out of the 2015 holiday season, one issue emerged that became painfully apparent to the entire industry. If retailers continue to use same store sales as a metric, they will continually and forever disappoint themselves, their management, and their
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Museums and retailers have much in common. Each needs to create an engaging experience for customers. Yes, retailers need to sell their wares and make a profit doing so—no easy feat in today’s over-stored, over-saturated marketplace. Museums must attract visitors
The New Whitney Museum of American Art: What Retailers Can Learn Read More »
Most retailers are relieved now that 2015 is in their rear-view mirrors. It was the worst year in retail since 2009, closing in the red, down 0.2 percent from previous year, if motor vehicles and food services are excluded. Unfortunately,
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You need a great idea, an audience to serve, an amazing product to sell. You need an authentic and ideally, unique experience, and the ability to connect it all with technology. And somehow you have to do this quickly, at
