People enjoy working from home so much that going back to the office five days a week is no longer an option. Being home more often, consumers prefer to shop lo...
The year 2023 is going to be better at retail than expected, especially for those companies that appeal to the higher and lower ends of the market. Those cateri...
Resale is enormously popular. In fact, secondhand apparel, according to thredUp, is expected to grow 16x faster than the market for new apparel by 2026. Do you...
When the Federated Department Stores’ merger with May Department Stores was announced, the deal’s promise was pitched to Wall Street with one word: Big. T...
New food ideas and health & wellness both rank highest as concepts that would increase consumers’ visits to the mall, according to an ongoing study from Cushm...
Given the recent past, “digital first” has become an edict. It’s how the customer thinks and, subsequently, it must also be how we think. How has the defi...
Stores exist in a three-dimensional space, but they are one-dimensional in function. Now, consider Amazon: It not only sells whatever it wants, it does whatever...
Amazon.com’s growth story — unprecedented, immense, rocket-like (choose your superlative) — does not come with a happy ending for most retailers. In summa...
People who love Walmart, really do love Walmart. That loyalty is built around one theme: price. The bad news is that the people who don’t like Walmart, really...
Sometime this year, Amazon.com is predicted to become the biggest apparel retailer in the U.S. But, when it comes to fashion, it’s just not a very good one. W...