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Coronavirus Has Pushed A Growing List of Retailers to the Edge

With consumers’ heightened awareness of the danger of being in confined places with strangers, it is highly unlikely they will flock to stores and malls even once they reopen. Anxiety and a healthy paranoia are likely to linger – possibly for a long time. Ever since March 14, America has been effectively closed for business. […]

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Luxury Market Will Take Years to Recover from COVID-19

Two of the world’s leading authorities on the luxury market, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Bain and Company, are out with their latest assessments of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the luxury market. Their findings are sobering, at best. What once was a shining light in the consumer market has now gone dark […]

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Amazon and Whole Foods Need to Be Schooled By Walmart in Handling Emergencies like Coronavirus

A few weeks ago, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey incited indignation among employees suggesting they should donate paid time off to their fellow workers who suffer prolonged periods out of work due to illness or death in their family. It resulted in a Change.org petition for Amazon, which owns Whole Foods, to give all employees more […]

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Future-Proofing Luxury Brands After Coronavirus

On March 13, American consumer confidence saw the largest single-day drop in more than two years, continuing a downward trend that began earlier this month, as measured in a daily survey by Morning Consult. Under normal circumstances, the company releases its Index of Consumer Sentiment (ICS) weekly, but because of the national emergency caused by […]

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How Companies Treat Employees During Coronavirus Will Determine Their Fate After – Don’t Make Whole Foods Mistake

Between now and at least the end of March if not longer, a growing number of retailers, malls, and shopping centers are shutting their doors to reduce the spread of COVID-19, or as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says to “flatten the curve.” Thereafter, following the experience […]

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