Author
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.
Winds of Change
Robin Lewis
April 20, 2017
Okay, okay, we know everyone, including us, has proselytized about the problems retailers face today. The inconvenient disharmonic convergence of factors including changes in consumer ...
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Store Rationalization, or Price Deflation?
Robin Lewis
April 18, 2017
Thanks to Fung Global Retail and Technology, we can show two revealing charts that raise more questions than answers. First of all, while the announced ...
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Big Data Empowering Small Decisions
Robin Lewis
April 12, 2017
A Conversation with Michelle Lam, CEO, True&Co. Perhaps the most talked-about concept in modern retailing is big data. Every brand is enchanted with the idea ...
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Stop Talking and Start Doing, Now and Faster
Robin Lewis
April 10, 2017
An Alert From World Retail Congress, 2017 By now, if anybody in the entire retail and consumer facing industries, from C-level executives down to the ...
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The Buggy Whip Industry Meets Henry Ford – At Shoptalk 2017
Robin Lewis
March 27, 2017
The analogy of the buggy whip industry being wiped out by the advent of the automobile is nauseatingly over-used. But that’s why I’m going to ...
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Amazon, Bigger Than You Think, and Their Loyalists Eat Your Lunch
Robin Lewis
March 19, 2017
Are you sick of hearing about Amazon, the voracious Pac-Man of the modern world, chomping on your lunch in ever increasing ways? Think about it: ...
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Let’s Talk Shop
Robin Lewis
March 14, 2017
We all attend conferences, thought leadership events and summits, each declaring themselves indispensible to our industry. And many of them are. But I submit that ...
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Are We Into Creative Destruction or Just Plain Destruction?
Robin Lewis
March 8, 2017
According to Moody’s Investors Service, 13.5 percent of their retail and apparel portfolio is distressed, compared to 16 percent during the Great Recession. This little ...
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