If the CVS–Aetna deal results in CVS developing a new, unified healthcare solution that begins with lowering costs through the disintermediation of pharmacy benefit managers and builds on the walk-in clinics already operating out of some Target stores to evolve […]
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Ever wonder where your once-beloved brand went when you no longer see it in your department store of choice? Did it get acquired, go bankrupt, or did it find a new home among one of the handful of brand management
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Researching this blog post before dawn on December 12, I thought maybe my morning cup of high-test coffee hadn’t kicked in yet. Why? Because the home page of kyliecosmetics.com looked exactly like the beigey-nude, tone-on-tone core imaging on kkwbeauty.com. Were
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Mark Twain once remarked, “the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” If the word “omnichannel” had a voice, it would say the same thing. Recently, numerous pundits have urged that we close the lid on the coffin and inter
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Retail’s new normal has arrived. We’re in the depths of disruption and intense competition, and while many have pegged it as the “retail apocalypse,” that thesis has been debunked. Retail is simply going through a period of disruption and change
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It’s taken a little longer than probably most people expected, but it appears that CB2 is finally entering puberty.The little kid sister to Crate & Barrel is about to mark its 18th year in business; by this point it should
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 will go unnamed, asked me, “Where have you been — on Mars? Pick any day
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Welcome to the Amazonification of the global economy! Or, if you’re competitor—World War A. At this point, retailers are on Amazon overload, having wrung their hands raw over the acquisition of Whole Foods and speculation about what Amazon might do
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 and wipe out every old world retailer in its path. In self-defense, it does seem
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I recently attended Shoptalk Europe in Copenhagen with 350 retail and retail tech CEOs and another 2,050 retail practitioners and investors who were interested in hearing what those CEOs had to say. Here are a few aha moments I had
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