The old saying that beauty is only skin deep reflects the ethical recognition that appearances are superficial and less important …
Beautiful, Sustainable, and Conscious: Setting New Standards for Cosmetics at Ulta
09 Wednesday Sep 2020
Subscribing to an Alternative Business Model: The Pandemic-Era Promise of Retail Subscription Services
07 Monday Sep 2020
The subscription business model has steadily spread, moving away from traditional print publications and toward such market sectors as clothing, …
Raising a Community Focus in Nike’s New Rise Store Concept
03 Thursday Sep 2020
There are Nike stores, and then there are Nike stores. But regardless of whether you visit a House of Innovation, …
Home Depot Is Winning on Nearly Every Metric. How Is It Doing So?
01 Tuesday Sep 2020
Posted in Chapter 07: Financial Strategy
There are various metrics to measure a retailer’s performance as we detail in chapter 6. On nearly every one of …
Fashion from Home: The Retail Challenge of Selling Professional Dress to People Working Remotely
26 Wednesday Aug 2020
There is little doubt that leggings and sweatpants are more comfortable than dress pants or a pencil skirt. Once a …
Concierge Service in Outlet Malls: Novel Approaches to Get Shoppers What They Want
24 Monday Aug 2020
Posted in Chapter 05: Customer Buying Behavior
Outlet stores and malls might once have implied a low cost or lower end setting, but that reputation largely has …
Livestreaming Fashion in China: Retail by Video
20 Thursday Aug 2020
The online operations might not be the most sophisticated—there are no real-time inventory updates or cutting-edge robot assistants available—but China’s …
From Stretch to High-Tech: Lululemon Moves Beyond Leggings to Push the Mirror In-Home Exercise Device
18 Tuesday Aug 2020
With a $1 million investment in a start-up company called Mirror, Lululemon tested the waters when it came to building …
Not One but Two Off-Price Options for Dick’s Sporting Goods
13 Thursday Aug 2020
Many department store retailers have initiated and maintained off-price operations, from Nordstrom to Macy’s to Kohl’s. Their popularity may have …
Get It, Go, Just Walk Out: Amazon’s Proposed Reinvention of the Checkout Process
10 Monday Aug 2020
Why would Amazon, with its primarily online offerings, develop new and advanced technology to facilitate physical, in-store purchasing? Because it …
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