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5 Feb

Retail as a Service

by Barry Ritholtz
    Back in the bad old days of mainframes, “Time-sharing” was how computing power and database storage were provided to...

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11 Dec

Retailers Lobby: “We Lied About Organized Theft”

by Barry Ritholtz
  No, “nearly half” of $94.5 billion in retail inventory losses in 2021 was not “attributable to organized retail crime.”...

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24 Aug

Retail & Restaurant Bankruptcies

by Barry Ritholtz
Both of these graphics, via Yahoo, are shocking. Even worse, they seemingly need to be updated with more bankruptcies each and every...

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30 Apr

The Mall Reimagined by Credit Rating

by Barry Ritholtz
The iconic brands that could disappear because of coronavirus Source: Washington Post     This is a very smart graphic that...

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2 Dec

Some Perspectives on E-Commerce

by Barry Ritholtz
Source: Digitalcommerce360     Now that Shopmas® has arrived, the retailers various trade associations are out spinning...

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29 Nov

Shopmas is here!

by Barry Ritholtz
Black Friday, the official kickoff of Shopmas®, is here once again. Whether you are spending time with friends and family or are out...

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18 Sep

US Retail Bankruptcies / Store Closures 2019

by Barry Ritholtz
These charts are brutal:   Source: BDO   This is pretty astonishing: “The pace of retail bankruptcies in 2019 to date is...

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9 Sep

Camera sales are falling sharply

by Barry Ritholtz
Source: Om   This is both expected and yet still startling. Here is Om: Camera sales are continuing to falling off a cliff. The...

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23 May

Cap on SALT: Retail impact or Not?

by Peter Boockvar
Peter Boockvar is the CIO of Bleakley Advisory Group and Editor of The Boock Report. ~~~ After listening to the Home Depot conference,...

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12 Feb

MIB: Living But Not Dying for Fashion

by Barry Ritholtz
Back in the 1980s and early 90s, New York City’s annual fashion shows was a disorganized event, without a centralized planning or...

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  • About Barry Ritholtz

      Barry L. Ritholtz is co-founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management LLC. Launched in...

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