TJ/TK Maxx is showing no signs of slowing its international retail expansion. Its first stores in Spain opened in Barcelona in March and Madrid in May, with Valencia following this month. Its ...
By transforming the physical store from a black box into a source of real-time intelligence, spatial intelligence provides ...
It’s no surprise that there’s a lot going on in the mind of the consumer, with concerns about the economy, what’s happening globally, and the pressures of online social interactions. Halloween ...
In my work with retail leadership teams and in conversations with board members, I keep hearing versions of the same concern. The consumer is behaving differently, but too many companies are ...
After I listened to NPR’s Life Kit broadcast, I drove to Burbank over the weekend to see for myself, and I counted 214 ...
It’s an age-old story. Retailers are constantly seeking technology to solve their problems. Self-checkout was supposed to ease checkout lines. Amazon Go was supposed to make self-checkout obsolete.
More than $100 billion in tariff refunds have been issued by the federal government since the Supreme Court ruled many of them were illegal earlier this year. A precise percentage of how much of that ...
Forgive us for saying, that in an age of AI with overwhelming computer analytics and technology—the likes of which have never been seen before—one of the bigger trends in the retail world involves a ...
To capture Gen Z’s attention, every second counts. Social media is by far the top place they last saw or heard an ad that made them want to buy something, beating out every other source including ads ...
Does Shein’s unimpressive IPO preview its failure? And the answer is: Far from it; Shein has an uncanny ability to pivot and reinvent, so the IPO may be a new beginning. Perhaps Shein could have ...
Alas, poor J. Peterman, we knew you well…really well. The most famous unsuccessful retailer in America is going out of business…but then again, don’t necessarily believe it. After all, the business ...
At a moment when affordability is becoming the key factor determining where people shop, Old Navy—Gap Inc.’s value-focused spinoff launched in 1994—has hit the skids. The Gap brand has performed worse ...