Roughly 10 days ago, after returning home from a lengthy trip across the Pond, I reluctantly eyeballed a sizeable pile of mail (junk and legit), as well as several boxes bearing beauty products for review. “Do I deal with all […]
Suppose a company that has long been in flux and owns a comparatively promising retailing asset decides to spin it off. Is this a good move for the owners, or a sign of desperation — buying time before something bad
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In 2012, JC Penney’s new CEO, Ron Johnson, made a huge bet. With a grand strategy to fundamentally transform JC Penney’s business model, his opening salvo on day one was to totally eliminate the myriad of Penney’s promotional pricing gimmicks
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RIP: Rest in Pieces Flash Sale Sites Born 2007 – Died 2016 In the history of retailing channels of distribution, perhaps no single format has had a shorter lifespan than the catalog showroom. Rightfully so, most people would say, since
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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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