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Robin Lewis
Imagine Robin Lewis: author; visionary, retail guru and founder/CEO of The Robin Report, enjoying a martini at Louis Backyard, way down in Key West. That’s the picture of a totally relaxed man and his pup. This is where he loves to write and would welcome all retail and brand executives for a slowed-down chat about what they need to do to be successful. So, come on down to the Conch Republic, as the locals call it. And you might not ever want to leave.
Happy New Year: Are You Ready for 2018?
Are retailers about to walk through the front door of a welcoming and prosperous 2018? As of the day after Christmas, the New Year was ...
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Holiday Happiness: Go for It While You Can
We live in an era of a perpetual imbalance of supply and demand, and, therefore real-time price deflation across almost all consumer-facing industries. Indeed, price ...
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The Amazon “Flywheel” Powers into the Holidays and Beyond
I hate to lead any article about Amazon with “the numbers,” because they suck all of the oxygen out of the room, to use a ...
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Over the River and Through the Woods…to Black Friday We Go
The sleighs are ready and waiting for a Black Friday kickoff. But hold on a second! This is old world thinking. A retail expert, who ...
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Do Your Employees Have the Right Skill Sets for the Future?
As we know, the apparel industry is being radically reshaped at mind-boggling speed by the forces of technology, globalization and shifting consumer values. The pressure ...
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A View Into the New Normal: AKA, The Retail Renaissance
I’ve often been criticized of late as being a harbinger of “death,” namely, a retail apocalypse or even worse, a technology tsunami about to break ...
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Shoptalk is the New Alexa for Retail
“Alexa, what’s new?” She instantly responds, “The new tools of the Technology Revolution.” And trust me, they are awesome new technology tools. If they are ...
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The Rise & Still-Falling Iconic American Brand
This article is not an attempt to match Edward Gibbon’s epic book, The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, in quantity or quality, although ...
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