What New School Retail Can Learn From Old School
Today I’m thinking about my next trip. In full disclosure, that’s most days, but today in particular it’s top of mind, because I’m sitting in Away’s luggage shop, opened last September and tucked into the
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Let's Get Real about Retail: A Conversation with Chris Walton
Today we have the privilege of chatting with Chris Walton. He is a leading expert and influencer in omnichannel retailing. An accomplished Senior Executive, with nearly 20 years of success within the retail and retail technology industries, Chris has high-level
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Meet The Expert: Brittany Bullard at SAS
Brittany Bullard is a Solutions & Analytical Consultant in the Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods Practice at SAS Institute. Bullard focuses on retailers’ strategic problems and identifies the challenges they face in an evolving industry. Her role allows her to
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Meet The Expert: Rachel Feingold of Century 21
Rachel Feingold is the VP of Home for New York City’s iconic off-price retailer, Century 21 Department store. She's an omni-channel guru whose experience spans Merchandising, Planning, Sales, Marketing and Finance for some of retail's best known names including
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Meet The Expert: Rick Helfenbein, President + CEO of AAFA
Rick Helfenbein is president and CEO of the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA), the national trade association representing more than 1,000 brands in the apparel, footwear, and accessories industry. Rick became president and CEO in February of 2016
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Science and Sorcery: Behind Glossier and New Beauty
There’s something about not being a store’s target customer - an outsider - that makes the observation of that very environment and its clientele all the more illuminating. So here we are, on a random Thursday in January,
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The Year's 5 Most Popular Blog Topics
Before you pop that champagne at midnight, how about a quick recap of 2017's most buzzworthy retail topics? Here were our 5 most clicked posts from a year that will go down in history. From Digital To Brick-and Mortar We
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From Digital to Brick and Mortar: A Conversation With Paco Underhill
You might say this has been a year of reversals in retail - reversals of fortune, reversals of market strategies - yet none of these have been more interesting to observe than the reverse movement of digitally native brands into
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