In current jargon, the phrase the “retail apocalypse” refers to the vast closures of stores throughout the world. Over the …
What’s Really Responsible for the Retail Apocalypse?
02 Thursday Apr 2020
Category Archives: Chapter 06: Retail Market Strategy
Camp Plans to Earn Revenues, Even Without Selling Toys
18 Wednesday Mar 2020
When it comes to toy stores, the concept of experiential retail is pretty hard to distinguish from the offerings available …
For Walmart, It’s the Supercenters, Stupid
16 Monday Mar 2020
Posted in Chapter 06: Retail Market Strategy
It might sound strange, in the e- and mobile commerce era, to hear the Walmart CEO claim that bigger stores …
Madewell’s Denim-Led Success
06 Friday Mar 2020
It’s a little like A Star Is Born, but in the fashion industry. Whereas J.Crew remains the parent company of …
Amazon Returns Are Getting Easier—And More Environmentally Friendly
02 Monday Mar 2020
Amazon is a lot of things to a lot of people, but one thing that it has never been able …
This Is Not Your Mother’s Container Store
04 Tuesday Feb 2020
Envisioning just the right combination of products to use to organize and design the perfect closet might be easy for …
4 Grocers that Are Turning Stores into Destinations
23 Monday Sep 2019
Grocery shopping is a chore that people try to get done as quickly and painlessly as possible. Right? Not necessarily—especially …
How a Canadian Chain Is Reinventing Book Selling
05 Thursday Sep 2019
Virginia Woolf famously insisted that if they wanted to write fiction, women needed “money and a room of one’s own.” …
Walgreens Profit Squeezed by Generic Drugs
02 Monday Sep 2019
Is a drugstore still a drugstore if it can’t make money by selling drugs? That’s a question facing the dominant …
The Empty Storefront Crisis and the End of the American Dream
22 Thursday Aug 2019
American retailing has historically provided a meaningful path to prosperity for various members of the population, including immigrants and people …