Coronavirus: Tracking Its Ongoing Impact to Retail (4/1)
Highlights: -Luxury discounting is down in the US from one week ago. -Discounting in active and sportswear continued to increase. -US specialty retailers have slightly increased proportion of merchandise marked down from last week, but average discounts are holding steady.
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Coronavirus: Tracking Its Ongoing Impact to Retail (3/25)
Highlights: -Luxury department stores in the US have increased discounting over the past week. -Amount of active and sportswear on discount also went up, but average discount increases were minor. -While a discount is the norm, specialty retailers also dialed
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Corona and Your Customer: Best Practices
As we've been inundated with coronavirus messages in our respective inboxes over the past few weeks, it's clear that retailers' customer-facing responses to coronavirus have been all over the map. As brands have checked off the 1) operational and 2)
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Coronavirus: Tracking Its Ongoing Impact to Retail (3/18)
"Extraordinary," "unprecedented," and "once-in-a-lifetime," are all phrases we've summoned over the past weeks as business as usual becomes anything but. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, it's a difficult time for us all, so we want to first send our warmest
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