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Dress Codes Are Back, But Consumer Response Is Mixed
Retail operates like a pendulum. For years, the fashion pendulum has been swinging towards the hyper-casual. I wrote about the alleged “death of athleisure” as ...
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Learning from Collusion: The Gen Z Darling Brand
Want to see a brand that embodies every single facet of the next-gen purchasing ethos? Look no further than Collusion, the most successful brand in ...
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A Closer Look at Retail & Labor in Inflationary Times
As the former owner and CEO of Murray’s Cheese and a veteran supermarket executive, I feel compelled to weigh in on the current economy with ...
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Walmart and Target: Canaries in the Coal Mine?
If Walmart and Target are canaries in the retail coal mine, maybe there’s a third canary in the economic coal mine named Elon Musk who ...
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Sephora and Kohl’s: Mismatched?
The groundbreaking Sephora and JC Penney collaboration has ended. And then just as quickly, Kohl’s tripled down on their in-store Sephoras, with plans to expand ...
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Unexpected Unkowns
So, if you think what is swirling around the world is just more complicated and painful than normal times, and that we will once again ...
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Unwanted Suitor
According to Reuters last week, HBC (and its governor, CEO and executive chairman, Richard Baker) is prepping to make a bid to acquire Kohl’s. Will ...
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Lesson 3: How Retail Proceeds Forward
Editor’s Note: Arick Wierson, a columnist for The Robin Report, has undertaken the formidable task of dissecting and analyzing the broad and far-reaching consequences of ...
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