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Holiday Retail Will End 2023 On Positive Note, But 2024 Is Another Story

Retailers and the consumers on whom they depend are rushing headstrong into the holiday shopping season, facing a level of economic uncertainty that they haven’t experienced since 2007, right before the Great Recession hit. VUCA – volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous – is the watchword for how retailers must approach this holiday season and 2024 […]

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J.McLaughlin: Out Of The Shadows Into The Fashion Spotlight

J.McLaughlin started as a men’s haberdashery shop on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in 1977. Opened by brothers Jay and Kevin McLaughlin, the store was designed to fit into its upscale neighborhood with classic men’s fashion that fit right in too. Originally, J.McLaughlin dressed men, but early on, women asked for the same fashion sensibility for […]

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Boot Barn: Realizing the American Dream

Newsweek just named Boot Barn to the top of its list of the most powerful U.S. retailers for 2023. It’s an interesting list, filled with the usual suspects like Wegman’s, Trader Joe’s, L.L. Bean, Target, Costco, and Wawa, then there are the not-so-usual ones, like Boot Barn. And it wasn’t just an honorable mention but with its […]

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UNTUCKit Founder Aims To Disrupt Another Category: Athletic Performance Wear

During the Covid pandemic shutdown with his company’s business put on hold, UNTUCKit’s founder Chris Riccobono got an unexpected gift. He used his newfound time to incubate a new business concept to disrupt a stagnating product category following the same process he used in the casual men’s shirt market. “I was bored,” Riccobono shared. “I […]

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Retail Theft Crisis Leaves Retailers Holding An Empty Bag

After all the troubles retailers have had to contend with post-pandemic, including supply chain snafus, store staff gone MIA, rising interest rates, and inflation hitting 40-year highs that cut shoppers’ ability to spend, there’s another challenge to contend with organized retail crime (ORC). Menacing Marauders Retail theft is no longer a nuisance where a watchful […]

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