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Marie Driscoll
Marie is a retail analyst, consultant and thought leader. Her career spans equity analysis on Wall Street where she won Best on the Street three times; industry analysis where she is considered one of RETHINK Retails top analyst Influencers for the last three years (2021-2023); and academia where she teaches retail, entrepreneurship, and equity analysis at Baruch, FIT and The New School. Marie also sits on the Retail Marketing Society’s Board and NRF’s IPC (Industry Partnership Council) board. X-Coresight, X-S&P/CapIQ
Video Shopping Comes of Age
Marie Driscoll
July 1, 2017
Online, exacerbated by Amazon, may be destroying the business model of many retailers. But ask most shoppers and they will tell you e-commerce sites do ...
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Department Stores: From Complacency to Urgency
Marie Driscoll
June 14, 2017
Robin Lewis, CEO of The Robin Report kicked off the program with an opening visual of a tsunami about to wipe out the entire legacy ...
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Angela Ahrendts’ Apple is No “Store” – It’s a Community
Marie Driscoll
April 26, 2017
Selling stuff in an Apple store is nowhere to be found in Angela Ahrendts’ vision for Apple’s retail business, which she is in charge of ...
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Retail Board Governance in the Age of Disruption
Marie Driscoll
March 15, 2017
How do boards of traditional retailers cope with the need for governance and guidance in this moment of disruptive change? Capitalism may be at its ...
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The Continuing Handbag Saga
Marie Driscoll
February 20, 2017
Michael Kors disappointed investors last week (February 7) with its sixth consecutive quarterly comp store sales decline along with a glum outlook, which calls for ...
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NRF Takeaways – Education, Technology and Personalization
Marie Driscoll
January 24, 2017
1. Education Finally, retailers have come together as an industry to stem the Race to the Bottom, a phrase TRR coined in the 90s based ...
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Coach, Kors & Kate: The Handbag Wars
Marie Driscoll
November 15, 2016
The North American handbag market, which achieved mid-to-high single-digit growth through most of this millennium, saw its 2015 rate cut by more than half to ...
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Fashion Tech Forum Field Report
Marie Driscoll
October 25, 2016
Someday soon, everything will be smart and we will live happily ever after. For now, we still need to collaborate and communicate the old-fashioned way: ...
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