If you were to ask Ken Hicks what he does for a living, he’d tell you “I sell sneakers.” We got the opportunity to sit down with this down-to-earth, Harvard Business School-educated, part-Native American straight-talker from Texas, who shared with […]
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As I write this, the “Dog Days” of summer are indeed upon us. Originally coined by the early Romans, the term refers to the period from early July to mid-August when the constellation Canis Major, or big dog, is bright
Amazon on a Level Playing Field So, you big guys (and by that I mean you, Walmart (WMT), Target (TGT), Best Buy (BBY), Sears (SHLD), Gap (GPS), Macy’s (M), Barnes & Noble (BKS), and a whole bunch of others) are
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Small is In After two years of declining domestic same store sales, Walmart (WMT) is finally getting it. However, it might be too late. What they finally ‘got’ is a small store strategy, that they now understand they must accelerate.
We had the opportunity to talk with Jane Elfers, CEO of The Children’s Place, the number one pure-play children’s specialty apparel retailer. Here’s what she had to say about her first year at the company, the differences between the specialty
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Make-up for the Playdate Set When she isn’t marching around the house ordering her parents to stop using plastic grocery bags “because sea turtles swallow them and die,” five-year-old Parker is rocking out in her hot pink bedroom to Taylor
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Pardon me, but I just can’t help myself. I seem to have an Edgar Allan Poe-like fixation. In this case I’m stuck on small format retailing, including “moms and pops,” as a winning model in the over-stored and -stuffed 21st
Will all due apologies to Bob Dylan: “Oh, Mr. Sam, can this really be the end, To be stuck inside of Bentonville With the home furnishings blues again.” Whoever would have thought it? The biggest big box of them all.
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We are right smack in the middle of a massive wave of exclusive merchandising. You can’t swing a dead hang tag these days in any decent sized store in the country and not find some brand or label (and they
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