What Is Ailing Retail?
It’s Not Just Retail That’s Changing. It’s Us. Technology keeps people too busy to go to the mall, and gives them an...
Barrons: Who’s Afraid of Amazon? 9 Surprising Retail Winners
Interesting, from Barron’s: Creative destruction has defined the retailing business since the moment after its birth. Today it...
Downsizing America’s Retail Footprint
U.S. Stores Are Too Big, Boring and Expensive Large retail chains, the malls they usually find themselves in, and even flagship urban...
Retailing USA
I don’t agree with the conclusions, but the data is quite interesting: MAPIC 2015 Retailing USA. Opportunity awaits. Trust...
MIB: Dana Telsey’s Retail Research
This week, I speak with Dana Telsey, of the Telsey Advisory Group (TAG), a research firm specializing in the study and analysis of...
Sears’ Death Spiral
click for ginormous graphic Today’s must read is a monster piece from Business Insider (again) headlined Inside Sears’ death...
Thanksgiving Retail Data Starts to Trickle in…
On Monday, I cast doubt on the many stories about how Black Friday retail sales were off to a disappointing start. This is an important...
Amazon’s Battle with Fake Reviews & Counterfeit...
Bloomberg: The world’s biggest online retailer is getting serious. It has made fighting phonies a major goal for 2017, building...
Tales of Black Friday’s Demise Have Been Greatly...
Nov. 25 marked Black Friday, which once was considered the beginning of the holiday shopping season, though the start these days is even...