Retail Unwrapped - from The Robin Report
By Shelley E. Kohan
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Welcome to Retail Unwrapped, a podcast from The Robin Report. Join Shelley E. Kohan as she shares insights and unpacks issues at the core of retail and consumer products. The conversations are lively and the opinions are honest. New episodes every Friday.
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EP 241: Reeling from Tariff Whiplash
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May 30, 2025 |
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EP 240: How to Bridge the Retail Tectonic Shift
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May 23, 2025 |
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EP 239: The Tariff Storm: Navigating the Harsh Inequity of Global Trade
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May 16, 2025 |
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EP 238: Luxury in Flux: LVMH's American Gambit
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May 09, 2025 |
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EP 237: How Chewy Is Reimagining Veterinary Care
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May 02, 2025 |
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EP 236: How Forever Chemicals Are Reshaping Retail's Future
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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EP 235: How Flow Fashion Could Save Our Planet and Your Wallet
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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EP 234: Retail Media Redefines Customized Marketing
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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EP 233: Store Closures and Lease Structures Are Reshaping Commercial Retail
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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EP 232: Urban Outfitters Masters Strategic Innovation
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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EP 231: Hudson’s Bay's Downfall: Why Richard Baker Failed
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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EP 230: Rethinking Retail Marketing Leadership: AI and the Fractional Revolution
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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EP 229: Consumer Boycotts: A Major C-Suite Headache
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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EP 228: When Necessities Become Luxuries: The Bird Flu Economy
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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EP 227: The What-Ifs of Potential Tariffs
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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EP 226: Beyond the Saks-Neiman Merger: The True Cost of Market Consolidation
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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EP 225: How Weather Forecasting Is a Trillion-Dollar Retail Opportunity
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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EP 224: The Robin Report Roundtable: Key Forces Reshaping Retail's Future
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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EP 223: Trade Talks: NRF’s Big Show (Part 2 of 2)
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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EP 222: Trade Talks: NRF’s Big Show (Part 1 of 2)
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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EP 221: American Giant and Walmart Reshore at Scale
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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EP 220: Navigating Retail's Next Storm: Technology, Trade, Transformation
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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EP 219: Build-A-Bear Workshop Is a Retail Renaissance
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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EP 218: The Next Frontier: Agentic AI Smart Shopping
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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EP 217: Denise Incandela, Walmart Fashion EVP: A 2024 Crave Retail Radical
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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EP 216: John Venhuizen, President and CEO of Ace Hardware: A 2024 Crave Retail Radical
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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EP 215: The AI-Powered Merchant: Creativity Meets Retail Technology
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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EP 214: The Future of Retail Returns: Automation Meets Human Intelligence
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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EP 213: Why Circular Store Design Will Redefine Resilient Retail
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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EP 212: Post-Election Recap for Retail
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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EP 211: De-Risking the Intelligence Gap in Retail Analytics
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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EP 210: Retail Store Transformation and Holiday 2024
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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EP 209: How Two Giants Are Disrupting Circularity with Sustainable Fashion Initiatives
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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EP 208: What's the Port Strike Impact on Retail?
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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EP 207: Home Furnishings Trends: Why 2025 Will Re-energize the Industry
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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EP 206: Mastering the Circular Economy in Retail
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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EP 205: Rewriting the DEI Rules in Retail
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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EP 204: Behind the CEO Curtain: What Modern Leadership Really Looks Like
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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EP 203: The Importance of Retail in Urban Development
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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EP 202: Our Guest, CEO of Ace Hardware, John Venhuizen
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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EP 201: From CX to EX: The Retail Revolution Starts with Your Employees
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Ep 200: Saks-Neiman Marcus Merger: No Merchant Leadership, No Success
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Ep 199: The 2024 Election Will Impact Retail. Here’s How.
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Ep 198: How Spatial Intelligence Accelerates Retail Decision-Making
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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EP 197: Supply Chain Becomes the Cool Kid in Retail
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Ep 196: Why Ulta Beauty’s Joy Project Is Important
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Ep 195: Lenovo’s CMO on Building a Community of Committed Fans
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Episode 194: Bayard Winthrop, Founder and CEO American Giant
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Episode 193: Nexite’s Breakthrough Innovation
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Episode 192: VF, Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch: Three Major Strategy Shifts, Only One Homerun!
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Episode 191: Succession Planning in Retail…Pepsi Has It Right
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Episode 190: Nordstrom's The 123 year-old Startup
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Episode 189: The Retail Industry Revolution
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May 31, 2024 |
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Episode 188: Why REI Is Committed To Developing Its Minority-Led Partners
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May 24, 2024 |
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Episode 187: The Chairman and CEO of Sezzle Discusses Buy Now Pay Later.
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May 17, 2024 |
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Walmart and Amazon Quit Healthcare
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May 10, 2024 |
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Avery Dennison on Frictionless Shopping
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May 03, 2024 |
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Blue Skies Ahead: Weather Analytics and Retail
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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AI-Driven Results Your CFO Can Believe In, with Purva Gupta, Co-Founder and CEO, Lily.ai
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Are We in for Luxe Boom or Bust?
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Luxury or Exclusivity Extortion? Hermès Sales Tactics Go to Court
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Content Creators Are Cultural Leaders of the 21st Century
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Four Female CEOs with Unique Retail Strategies
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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The New Wave of Fashion eComm
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Tony Spring’s Challenge at Macy’s
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Consumers Are Getting High on Consumption Addiction
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Shoptalk 2024 Sneak Peek: with Krystina Gustafson
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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A Retail Profitability Update with Steve Morris, Founder of Asset Strategies Group
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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David Sobie, Co-founder and CEO of Happy Returns
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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How to Prevent the C-Suite Shuffle
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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NRF Report: The New Age of AI Retail Tech
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Next Gens Are a Values-Based Consumer Powerhouse
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Retail Radicals Aritzia, Boot Barn, Crate & Barrel, Dick’s Sporting Goods, and Yeti Redefine Retail
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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The Strategic Shifts We See In 2024
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Retail Cost Accounting Can Be Misleading
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Is Organized Retail Crime a Convenient Excuse for Closing Stores?
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Branding's Next Iteration with Leslie Ghize, of DONEGER TOBE
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Nick Mangiapane and Commerce Signals Weigh in on 2023 Holiday Spending Predictions
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Did Black Friday Cannibalize Itself?
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Why Brands Should Care About This New Solution for Microplastics
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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The Rise of Retail Multicultural Marketing with Imani Laners
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Dr. Read Hayes on AI and the Fight Against Organized Theft
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Ye + Adidas: The Hidden Cost of Celebrity Deals
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Sky High Retailing: A New Age for Travel Retail
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Once Red-Hot Vans Runs Cold
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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AI: The Future of Retail Marketing Part 2 with Lindsey Scheftic
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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AI: The Future of Retail Marketing Part 1 with Lindsey Scheftic
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Doing the C-Suite Shuffle
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Whoa! Costco Goes Upscale
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Retailers Behaving Badly
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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AI Powers DTC’s Leading Edge
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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The Unpredictable Road Ahead
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Tapestry Expands Its Empire: But It’s No LVMH
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Amazon’s Slippery Slope
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Hot to Not, Has the VF Culture Killed Supreme?
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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From Wholesale to Retail: Brands Are Trying to Achieve a Balance
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Navigating the Billion-Dollar Battle Against Retail and Cyber Crime: The Role of AI
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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ICSC's Tom McGee Talks Suburban Retail, the Return of Physical Stores, and Gen Z.
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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The Devil’s in the Details; the Details Are in the Data
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Retail Reimagined: Unpacking AI’s Transformative Potential
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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$10 Billion a Month Goes “Poof” for Retailers
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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The Demise of Fashion Specialty Stores
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Kohl's: Turnaround or Downward Spiral?
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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The Untapped Potential of Ancillary Services
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Organized Retail Crime Takes a Bite Out of Profits
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Tempting Fate: The Impossibility of Predicting a Recession
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May 25, 2023 |
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Walking a Tightrope: When Doing the Right Thing Could Be Breaking a Law
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May 18, 2023 |
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A Master Class on Unified Commerce
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May 11, 2023 |
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How Cotton Incorporated Has Remained Relevant to the Consumer for 50+ Years
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May 04, 2023 |
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Today’s Headline: Consumer Spending Remains Strong as Headwinds Build
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Unhinged Rage with Customer Service
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Retail’s Hinge Point in Time Reveals the New Normal
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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The Dark Side of AI
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Operating Globally in Today’s Disruptive Marketplace
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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As the World Turns: Gender-Fluid Fashion
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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EV Charging Stations: New Moneymakers for Retail
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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The Failure of U.S. Retail International Expansion
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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A&F: The Meteoric Rise Back to Cool
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Andrew Jassy Is Redefining Amazon
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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The Evolution of Brand Management
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Retail Leadership for Extraordinary Times
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Retooling and Speeding Up the Retail Model
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Creating a New Normal
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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The Risks and Rewards of Next-Gen Artificial Intelligence
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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The Nightmare After Christmas
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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A Look Back at 2022
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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2023 Retail Trends: Surprises and Disruptions?
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Forecasting Can Be a Fool’s Game
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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The Shift to Small Neighborhood Stores
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Mad Men 2.0?
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Influencers: Working for You or Against You?
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Revealing the Future of Malls - with Bill Taubman
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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2022 Holiday Predictions - with Andy Mantis, Commerce Signals
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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The Truth About Fashion’s Digital Transformation
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Is There ROI in Resale?
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Made in America: A New Perspective
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Inventory Surplus + Inflation = Disaster
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Data Overload: Why Your Top Talent Is Burned Out
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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There’s No Playbook for Holiday 2022
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Unlocking the Power of Personalization - With Dressipi's Sarah McVittie
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Malls and Nine Lives
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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The Fastest Growing eComm Company in the World...
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Your Customers and the Final Frontier
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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How to Navigate Down Markets with Spatial Intelligence
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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What Can Retailers Expect for Back-to-School?
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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The New, New Rules of Retail
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Macy’s and Toys R Us: A Big Win?
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Get On the Build-to-Order Bandwagon
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Is Big Tech Out of Control?
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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Workers Unite as Unions Make a Resurgence
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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BNPL: A Race to the Bottom
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Amazon 2.0: Turbulent Times
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Inflation and Inventory: Doubling Down on Retail
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Where Will Subscription Services Land?
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Is Lack of Leadership Dragging Down the Gap?
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Why Is Brand Reputation More Important Than Ever?
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Tech Titans Tumble
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May 26, 2022 |
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Amazon Slip Slides into Maturity
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May 19, 2022 |
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Welcome to the New Workplace
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May 13, 2022 |
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Recommerce: Is the Hype Real or Faux?
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May 05, 2022 |
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Head’s Up: Customers Are Taking Control of Their Data
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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The Store Lives On
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Workers Aren’t Just Resigning, They’re Trading Up
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Mr. Smalls is Now Mr. Big: Is He Resurrecting Unions?
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Kohl's Under Attack
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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The World Is Watching
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Declining Birth Rates Will Drive Inflation into Perpetuity
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Global Brands Protest the War on Ukraine
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Returns Have Silver Linings with Appriss Retail
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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The Incoming Metaverse
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Goodbye Cookies, Hello First-Party Data
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Tech Innovations Reengineer Inventory and Fulfillment
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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The Dark Side of Online Marketplaces
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Buy Now, Pay Later in the Crosshairs
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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The China Syndrome
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Demand and Supply...Out of Control
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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An Insider’s Preview of 2022: Retail on the Crest of the Wave
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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The Nordstrom Challenge: Spin Off the Rack?
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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I Quit: The Rise of Employee Power
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Inflation Wars
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Is Buy Now/Pay Later a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Physical and Online Retail: Co-Dependencies
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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The Secret Behind Dark Stores
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Where Are All the Holiday Workers?
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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An Uncertain Holiday
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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The eComm Breakup Debate
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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The Supply Chain Still Making Big, Bad News
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Cracks in the Retail Ecosystem with Special Guest, Steve Sadove
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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The Truth Behind Subscription Models
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Building a Winning eCommerce Strategy with Market Intelligence
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Why Design Matters
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Six Major Challenges Facing Retailers to Survive Holiday
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Privacy vs Personalization
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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What Happened to the Store?
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Three Perfect Stormfronts: Inflation, Out-of-Stocks and Stay at Home (Still)
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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Nike’s Innovation Flywheel Fuels Transformation
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Platinum Customer Service Turns to Tin, Post-Covid
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Covid Throws Yet Another Curve at Retail
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Do You Know Where Your Customers Are?
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Rental, Reuse...and Free?
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Mike Gould: Icon, Iconoclast and Retail Legend
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Made in America...or Bought in America
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Agile Stores: Hype or Hope?
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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A Surge in Digital Marketplaces
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Ramping Up Your Retail Game
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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The D2C Model Is No Silver Bullet
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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We’re Dressing Up: Post-Covid Optimism Research from Cotton Inc.
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Social Media or Marketplace Platform?
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May 27, 2021 |
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Making It Personal with Sarah McVittie, co-founder of Dressipi
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May 20, 2021 |
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Walmart vs Amazon: Battle of the Titans to Be #1
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May 13, 2021 |
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Happy Days Are Here Again...Maybe
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May 06, 2021 |
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Retail is Dismantled in Ten Years
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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The End of the "Retail Store" as We Know It
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Post-Pandemic Pricing Power? No Way!
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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Amazon: Strategic or Scattershot?
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Next Wave Retail as Openly Shared Distribution Platforms
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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The Saks Breakup…or Breakdown?
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Activists Wreak Havoc
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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CEO Tenure: Does it Matter?
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Wholesale/Retail Model Is a Dead Man Walking
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Walmart Goes Beyond Retail
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Many Unhappy Returns
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Shareholders or Stakeholders...Who Owns Your Business?
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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What Drives Tractor Supply Company?
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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The Big Bang Theory of Localization
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Growing Pains
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Leadership Formula for Disaster
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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It's The Distribution Century
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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People + Purpose - Robin Lewis and William Lauder
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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The Robin Report Annual Forum - Planet + Responsibility
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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The Robin Report Annual Forum - Conversation with Dave Kimbell, President of Ulta Beauty
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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The Robin Report Annual Forum - People + Emerging Experience
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Disruption, Acceleration + Reconstruction with William Lauder
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Tech Built Branding with Stacey Shulman
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Retail on a Balance Beam
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Holiday 2020: Fasten Your Seat Belts!
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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The State of Retail with Paul Charron
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Leading Through The Perfect Storm
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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The Aging of eCommerce
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Headache Sized Issues in the Chaotic New World of Retailing
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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Educating an Industry
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Nov 06, 2019 |