PFAS Are High Risk for Retail
Retailers must act on PFAS risks as regulations tighten, lawsuits rise, and demand grows for safer, PFAS-free products across all categories.
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Blurring the Retail Lines
Retail is no longer about sales—it’s about immersive, lifestyle-driven experiences that blur the lines between shopping, dining, and entertainment.
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What Luxury Brands Can Learn from Hottest Brand Miu Miu
Miu Miu defies the luxury slump with viral products, cultural cachet, and community appeal, driving a 93.2% sales surge and topping Q4 2024.
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Can Victoria’s Secret Win Over Gen Z?
Victoria’s Secret’s 2024 relaunch embraced inclusivity, comfort, and diversity to win over next-gen consumers and revive its iconic fashion show.
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Where Is Retail Innovation?
Retail needs innovation leadership to anticipate trends, drive growth, and differentiate beyond short-term, reactive strategies.
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Fathers, Fashion & Family
I recall my father as a fashion and style mentor. He set the bar very high. And, for me, it was the wrong bar. In my memory, his wardrobe comes into sharp focus not only visually, but also as a
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Identifying Trends for the Trend-Averse Generation
The generation with the most buying power sets the trends in retail and Generation Z is stepping up for their time in the sun. Gen Z will represent 40 percent of customers by 2020 and, as they come of age,
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Hyper-Personalized & Preemptive Commerce
Five key trends for 2020 include Preemptive Distribution, Mobile Proliferation, Price and Product Personalization, Retailer Collaborations with Technology Companies and Associate Empowerment & Virtual Assistance. 1. Preemptive Distribution A key trend in the retail landscape, which is finally coming to
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The Store of The Future Is Like Pornography. You’ll Know It When You See It.
The Store of the Future Should Never Be About Buzzwords Take, for example, this introduction to a piece I came across regarding the future of store design in one of my favorite daily retail roundups, Retail Dive: What does experiential
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FlexState: Thriving in the Age of Disruption
In a world of increasing algorithm-driven precision, instability is still ironically, or perhaps understandably, a persistent form of normal. It seems that shocks to the system, outliers and inherent human fear of change are triggering wild swings across the board.
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