Happy New Year!
Not Much Happy or New About It, Except… This Holiday Season, Santa’s sleigh was so overstuffed that he was able to leave a lot of nearly-free, and even-free gifts under the trees of our nation’s homes. So Daddy, Mommy and […]
Retail\’s Learning Pipeline: From Clicks to Bricks and Back Again
For the better part of 150 years, the art and science of retail has evolved slowly. In an era when brick-and mortar stores controlled a stable shopping experience, there were occasional flashes of innovation, but mostly a slow, steady cultural
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Millennials at Work
The future of the Millennial workspace has finally hit its apex: from bringing our home to the office and the new extremes of socializing in the workplace to Holacracy (a new, flat framework for management), we Millennials are defining our
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Investment Bellwethers: Four Pivotal Brands
Investor Headline: Slowing topline growth in tandem with increased marketing and IT spend leads to margin contraction and a disappointing bottom line. This is a sad assessment for many retailers in the omnichannel world of 2015. And the second half
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The Unlikely, Hard-Won Hipness of Elizabeth Arden (Yes, Elizabeth Arden)
A pop-up shop in the chicer-than-chic 16th arrondisement in Paris. Multi-page ad layouts in Vogue and Vanity Fair. Alliances with Net-A-Porter and buzzy New York skin doc Dendy Engelman to get the word out about Superstart, its new skincare “booster.”
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Holidays 2015: Checking the Pulse of the American Shopper
The holiday season is already upon us, but are consumers spending? That’s the question at the heart of our two-part 2015 Holidays Webinar. Join Sarah Quinlan, SVP of Market Insights for MasterCard Advisors, as she dives into holiday spending trends.
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Bye Bye, Baby
Big Kids Want Their Own Stuff Rumor has it 20-year-old California Baby rakes in $20 million per year in Target alone, but that doesn’t mean founder Jessica Iclisoy thinks she has it all figured out. For starters, she cluelessly resisted—for
Kraft, Campbell Soup, Nestle…and More
All Facing Enormous Headwinds The newly formed Kraft Heinz food giant’s announcement to slash 2500 jobs is a harbinger of much worse headwinds facing all packaged food companies. As much as they would like to spin this as a positive
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Small Is the Next Big Story in Retail
By now, you\’ve heard the news that Target is launching new smaller stores under the CityTargets name. Likewise, Walmart continues to introduce smaller-scale stores as it seeks to expand into urban locales. Big-box retailer Best Buy is focused on its
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Fiddling with the Roofs
Remember the old adage that “retail follows the rooftops”? If you do, then you probably have fond memories of the Eisenhower administration, the post World War II suburban building boom when Sears Roebuck and J.C. Penney ruled the retail roost,
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