Is It Time for a Return of the Catalog?
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…
What Mark Twain Has to Say About the Metaverse
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…
Retail Unwrapped – The Robin Report Podcast
Operating Globally in Today’s Disruptive Marketplace
For a Few Dollars More
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…
An Argument for Neighborhood Stores
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…
New Revenue Streams, Higher Margins Are Walmart’s Focus
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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