By transforming the physical store from a black box into a source of real-time intelligence, spatial intelligence provides ...

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 ...

After I listened to NPR’s Life Kit broadcast, I drove to Burbank over the weekend to see for myself, and I counted 214 ...

As celebrity merchandise gets increasingly extravagant (see Beyoncé’s $900 empty box), a new kind of endorsed merchandise is on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Abercrombie & Fitch brand and specialty chain is on fire. Sales grew 30 percent YoY in the last four reported quarters. The share price of Abercrombie’s parent ANF has rocketed from $35 to a high ...

This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. “It’s not exactly a big fat secret that department stores are becoming an endangered species. Once ...

Headlines have proclaimed the “death of the retail store” since the emergence of disruptive ecommerce, and long before the struggles brought by the pandemic, the surge of Chinese marketplaces, and, of ...

Terms like “private label, privately owned, generic and direct-to-consumer brands” are popular buzzwords among both retailers and consumers. Yet their roots go back over a century. What’s new is that ...

Retailing has always been a fragile beast, with few brands that endure and become future-proofed. Ironically, early success can often lead to a failure to innovate and complacency. That was not Sleep ...

Under the scorching sun of Accra, Ghana’s bustling capital, the second-hand clothing markets pulse with energy. Traders negotiate over towering bales of garments arriving daily from Europe, North ...