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Housekeeping
The summer is usually not a time for great reflection: more often most of us spend as much time as possible getting away from the real world, via vacations, trashy novels and the latest super-duper...
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Amazon: Trouble in River City?
Or Wall Street’s Magical Leprechaun Jeff Bezos does have that “Leprechaunish” look about him. Wall Street certainly bought into the fable that Mr. Bezos (symbolically toiling over his “shoe making”)...
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Is Alibaba Really Worth It?
On the verge of becoming the biggest initial public offering in US history, one has to wonder if it’s really worth the $187 billion some analysts are projecting. As we witness Jack Ma, former...
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Sears: Nothing Left But its Past
Eddie “fast buck” Lampert is squeezing the proverbial turnip for more cash — as the musicians aboard the sinking “Titanic” are now truly playing “Nearer My God to Thee.” The cash he’s squeezing out is...
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Amazon Finally Gets It: The Next Big Thing For All Pure Digital Players
Amazon’s announcement of its first physical store opening on Manhattan’s 34th Street is not a surprise to me, as I predicted it four years ago in the first edition of my co-authored book, The New Rules...
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A Holiday Fable
‘Twas the day after Christmas, when all through the mall, Every shopping creature was stirring in a big free-for-all. The sale banners were hung in the windows with twine, In hopes that black ink would...
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The Past as Prologue
I recently spent some time looking 25 years into the future of retailing. Coincidentally, I played this game almost 25 years ago, exactly. I think it was July of 1989 when I was an executive at the May...
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Soar Wars
Look up in the sky! It’s a bird…it’s a plane. No, it’s those Louboutins you ordered. That might not be too far from reality given the frenzy over drones and their potential in retail. We have the...
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Happy Accidents
Offering a wider assortment at every store helps increase sales while keeping complexity in check. Less is more: This is the prevailing wisdom of today’s retail assortment strategies; assortments...
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Stores Are the New Black
Terry Lundgren, CEO of Macy’s, borrowed this quote during his opening remarks at the University of Arizona Global Retailing Conference in Tucson back in April, attributing it to NYU-Stern Marketing...
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My View
A Series of firsthand views from industry leaders on the retail landscape, careers, personal insights, and the future of retail. Michael Gould – Leadership, Marketing & Mentoring Consultant; Former...
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Old Power Brands Are Asleep
Sephora Leads a Wake Up Call One thing the overly heralded tech-driven start-ups do not have is brand recognition. They do not have the indelible consumer connection that has taken the “old world”...
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