I think athleisure is rolling over for fall and its growth rate will dramatically slow, and then stall out. Let’s take a look at current market darling Lululemon. Admittedly, Lulu has great technical product for yoga. And, it makes pretty good […]
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The Boston Consulting Group, which I think is pretty good, is not on my wavelength when it comes to online sales. Here’s an excerpt from comments in the study they recently conducted regarding consumers\’ intentions about future online purchasing: \”A vast majority of U.S.
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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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
We caught up with Zach Pandl, Senior Economist at Goldman Sachs to get a reading on the global economy, and his thoughts about our complex financial future and the implications for the retail sector. Robin Lewis: Let’s start with kind
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I recently bumped into someone I hadn’t seen in many years, a great artist in his own right, who like me, had receded from the front row of the fashion business in the last decade or so. It was like
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A Revolutionary Shift Surprisingly, 2016 actually looks a lot like 1776. And many of us never saw it coming. Consumers are seeking out unique and small scale businesses that make their own pickles, brew their own beer, and use local
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The “Runway, Same Day” movement is not really a game changer. The game has already changed. The recent discussions around the \”Runway, Same Day\” business model, solidified by Burberry’s recent decision to combine both its men\’s and women\’s collections into a
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Last time I checked with the boys in Siliconland, you still couldn’t go out to eat online. We’re not talking about Grubhubbing it to your front door or an Uberlicious special. This is about the idea of going someplace –
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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
