DIY Is Back in a Big Way, With a Few New Spins
Consumers are still trapped at home and they’re picking up some new hobbies. The DIY market is booming, and Euromonitor predicts that DIY sales will grow by 6.1 percent globally in the new year. However, when researching the category, one quickly notices an interesting discrepancy: there is no universally accepted definition of what constitutes DIY. I was amused to see…
Ralph Lauren: Maintaining a Brand During a Pandemic
I’m a Ralph Lauren aficionado. Long a fan of the brand and its overarching idea, “The World of Ralph Lauren,” I continue to think it is the best articulated and most consistently executed brand in the…
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Listen in to hear Robin and Shelley E. Kohan, chief strategy officer of TRR, deconstruct the retail industry’s obsession with the “Grow or Die” mentality. Overstuffed and overstored is overkill in today’s volatile marketplace and tone-deaf to what consumers want. Robin explores the existential question: Is infinite growth even possible? Diversified business models, flexibility and the agility to change the course is the roadmap for success.
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Conventional wisdom insists the world as we’ve come to know it this past year balances precariously on a polarizing precipice: economic instability vs. the stock market’s irrational exuberance. Remember what happened to irrational exuberance? Consumer behavior…
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The Great American Shopping Mall, a truly unique 20th century phenomenon, emerged for the first time in the late 1960s and exploded across the United States over the next three decades. Tracking alongside the interstate highway…
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The genesis of the state of the retail industry today in the U.S. began about a quarter century ago as a slowly rolling transformation resulting from the launch of the smartphone. And you could add Amazon…
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The Robin Report Weekly Podcast
Growing Pains
Listen in to hear Robin and Shelley E. Kohan, chief strategy officer of TRR deconstruct the retail industry’s obsession with the “Grow or Die” mentality. Overstuffed and overstored is overkill in today’s volatile marketplace and tone-deaf to what consumers want. Robin explores the existential question: Is infinite growth even possible? Diversified business models, flexibility and the agility to change the course is the roadmap for success.