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Strategy

Is It Time for a Return of the Catalog?

March 29, 2023 |  by Laura Barrett

Retailers have always been at the forefront to meet consumer needs. Successful retailers know their markets intimately and have adapted to meet new customer trends. Being consumer-dependent, retail has transformed its branding over and over from Burma-Shave road signs to the metaverse. Everything Old Is New Again To move forward, it often takes perspective. Trends can be cyclical, so what…

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Technology

What Mark Twain Has to Say About the Metaverse

March 28, 2023 |  by Kate Newlin

Remember Mark Twain’s observation about the weather? Everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything about it. Brand growth in the metaverse is quite like that. Yes, just like weather, Web3 seems conceptually important, but chaotic…

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Retail Unwrapped – The Robin Report Podcast

Operating Globally in Today’s Disruptive Marketplace

Managing a global business with a portfolio of brands over the past three years has been a challenge for even the most experienced leaders. How do you strategically plan for transformation when the world marketplace is so disruptive, sustainability concerns are mounting, and each workforce in different international markets has specific needs. Marcella Wartenbergh, CEO of AWWG (including brands Pepe Jeans London, Hackett and Façonnable, and is the licensed distributor for Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein in Spain and Portugal) joins Robin Lewis and Shelley E, Kohan, TRR’s strategist, as they discuss how to make an international brand the “employer of choice” for future retail leaders.

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For a Few Dollars More

March 27, 2023 |  by Warren Shoulberg

You’re traveling through another dimension, not only of sight and sound but of mind. And that journey has taken you to Olive Hill, TN, population 1,424. And SIX dollar stores. That’s right, this tiny eastern Kentucky…

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Strategy

An Argument for Neighborhood Stores

March 26, 2023 |  by Ken Hewes and Steve Morris

Specialty retailers – from legacy brands and DTCs to startups – are all facing the same challenge: Declining mall traffic and higher downtown office vacancy rates are making traditional store location decisions far riskier. Brands are…

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Strategy

New Revenue Streams, Higher Margins Are Walmart’s Focus

March 22, 2023 |  by Robin Lewis

With a Walmart store within a 10-mile dash from every consumer in the U.S., and a split-second key tap away, they have clearly established a dominant retail position, saturating most of the country physically and accelerating…

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