Retail Unwrapped - from The Robin Report

Episode 188: Why REI Is Committed To Developing Its Minority-Led Partners

24 May 2024

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Special guests Susan Vison, VP and executive direc...

Episode 187: The Chairman and CEO of Sezzle Discusses Buy Now Pay Later.

17 May 2024

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Special Guest: Charlie Youakim, Chairman and CEO, ...

Walmart and Amazon Quit Healthcare

10 May 2024

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!If Walmart, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Mor...

Avery Dennison on Frictionless Shopping

03 May 2024

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!The evolution of frictionless shopping in self-che...

Blue Skies Ahead: Weather Analytics and Retail

26 Apr 2024

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Weather analytics and retail are connected. The mo...

AI-Driven Results Your CFO Can Believe In, with Purva Gupta, Co-Founder and CEO, Lily.ai

19 Apr 2024

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!The state of AI in retail today can be as confusin...

Are We in for Luxe Boom or Bust?

12 Apr 2024

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Recent failures of Matches, FarFetch, and Net-a-Po...

Luxury or Exclusivity Extortion? Hermès Sales Tactics Go to Court

05 Apr 2024

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Consumers are speaking out. A class action lawsuit...

Content Creators Are Cultural Leaders of the 21st Century

29 Mar 2024

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Don’t dismiss the power play of the growing comm...

Four Female CEOs with Unique Retail Strategies

22 Mar 2024

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Here is a tale of four female CEOs with contrastin...

The New Wave of Fashion eComm

12 Mar 2024

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Fashion ecomm has evolved from customers finding a...

Tony Spring’s Challenge at Macy’s

08 Mar 2024

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Tony Spring is creating a bold new chapter at Macy...

Consumers Are Getting High on Consumption Addiction

01 Mar 2024

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!There’s a store across the street and thousands ...

Shoptalk 2024 Sneak Peek: with Krystina Gustafson

23 Feb 2024

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!One of the hottest tickets this year is the much-a...

A Retail Profitability Update with Steve Morris, Founder of Asset Strategies Group

16 Feb 2024

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Here’s a provocative thought: The sum of retail ...

David Sobie, Co-founder and CEO of Happy Returns

09 Feb 2024

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Returns have become a huge headache for retailers ...

How to Prevent the C-Suite Shuffle

02 Feb 2024

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!The retail environment is moving at lightning spee...

NRF Report: The New Age of AI Retail Tech

26 Jan 2024

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!With the sheer number of retail startups at NRF, y...

Next Gens Are a Values-Based Consumer Powerhouse

19 Jan 2024

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Gen Z and the Alphas right behind them are deeply ...

Retail Radicals Aritzia, Boot Barn, Crate & Barrel, Dick’s Sporting Goods, and Yeti Redefine Retail

12 Jan 2024

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!The Robin Report Retail Radicals celebrate the ico...

The Strategic Shifts We See In 2024

05 Jan 2024

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Preemptive distribution is pushing retailers to go...

Retail Cost Accounting Can Be Misleading

29 Dec 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Retail accounting provides a snapshot of real-time...

Is Organized Retail Crime a Convenient Excuse for Closing Stores?

22 Dec 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!What’s the story behind organized retail crime? ...

Branding's Next Iteration with Leslie Ghize, of DONEGER TOBE

15 Dec 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!What it means to be a brand today goes beyond the ...

Nick Mangiapane and Commerce Signals Weigh in on 2023 Holiday Spending Predictions

08 Dec 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!How is Holiday 2023 going to end up? Even when cus...

Did Black Friday Cannibalize Itself?

01 Dec 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Black Friday Creep has moved over $5 billion out o...

Why Brands Should Care About This New Solution for Microplastics

24 Nov 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!The U.S. has one of the highest per capita consump...

The Rise of Retail Multicultural Marketing with Imani Laners

17 Nov 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Prepare to have your perspective on multicultural ...

Dr. Read Hayes on AI and the Fight Against Organized Theft

10 Nov 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Join Robin and Shelley and guest expert Dr. Read H...

Ye + Adidas: The Hidden Cost of Celebrity Deals

03 Nov 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Here’s a conundrum: Should bad behavior be toler...

Sky High Retailing: A New Age for Travel Retail

27 Oct 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Travel retail has been on the rise for the decade ...

Once Red-Hot Vans Runs Cold

20 Oct 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!The iconic Vans brand is seeing its profits racing...

AI: The Future of Retail Marketing Part 2 with Lindsey Scheftic

13 Oct 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!In the second half of our conversation, we learn f...

AI: The Future of Retail Marketing Part 1 with Lindsey Scheftic

06 Oct 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Join Robin and Shelley with AI expert Lindsey Sche...

Doing the C-Suite Shuffle

28 Sep 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Traditional succession planning may be a thing of ...

Whoa! Costco Goes Upscale

22 Sep 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Spoiler alert: Costco has become dinner table conv...

Retailers Behaving Badly

15 Sep 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Has the retail world gone mad? Acquisitions, partn...

AI Powers DTC’s Leading Edge

08 Sep 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!The data-oriented power of direct-to-consumer (DTC...

The Unpredictable Road Ahead

31 Aug 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Retailers are facing a potential economic event, a...

Tapestry Expands Its Empire: But It’s No LVMH

25 Aug 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Tapestry is no LVMH or Kering in its acquisition o...

Amazon’s Slippery Slope

17 Aug 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Is Amazon on a downward retail slide? It’s backi...

Hot to Not, Has the VF Culture Killed Supreme?

10 Aug 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Join Robin Lewis and Shelley Kohan as they dig int...

From Wholesale to Retail: Brands Are Trying to Achieve a Balance

03 Aug 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Imagine a world where legacy retailers, once terri...

Navigating the Billion-Dollar Battle Against Retail and Cyber Crime: The Role of AI

28 Jul 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Ever wondered how to tackle the billion-dollar pro...

ICSC's Tom McGee Talks Suburban Retail, the Return of Physical Stores, and Gen Z.

21 Jul 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Tom McGee believes there is a bright side for reta...

The Devil’s in the Details; the Details Are in the Data

13 Jul 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Brian Field, Global Leader of Retail Consulting fo...

Retail Reimagined: Unpacking AI’s Transformative Potential

06 Jul 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!This week’s podcast addresses the impact of AI i...

$10 Billion a Month Goes “Poof” for Retailers

29 Jun 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!In October, an estimated $10 billion a month is be...

The Demise of Fashion Specialty Stores

21 Jun 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!For mid-tier fashion specialty retail, it’s gone...

Kohl's: Turnaround or Downward Spiral?

15 Jun 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Even with the addition of Sephora and Amazon retur...

The Untapped Potential of Ancillary Services

08 Jun 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!What drives loyalty, provides new revenue streams ...

Organized Retail Crime Takes a Bite Out of Profits

01 Jun 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Organized Retail Crime is growing and a $95 billio...

Tempting Fate: The Impossibility of Predicting a Recession

25 May 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!We’re living in strange times. None of the best ...

Walking a Tightrope: When Doing the Right Thing Could Be Breaking a Law

18 May 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Today there is a fine line between doing the right...

A Master Class on Unified Commerce

11 May 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Catalogs are back! And that’s not all. Dynamic p...

How Cotton Incorporated Has Remained Relevant to the Consumer for 50+ Years

04 May 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!How does a brand stay relevant after 53 years? Wha...

Today’s Headline: Consumer Spending Remains Strong as Headwinds Build

27 Apr 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Don’t count your customers out, even when they’...

Unhinged Rage with Customer Service

20 Apr 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!AI is not delivering the customer service customer...

Retail’s Hinge Point in Time Reveals the New Normal

13 Apr 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Traditional retail has become unhinged, and we ope...

The Dark Side of AI

06 Apr 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Much of the world is calling for a pause on AI to ...

Operating Globally in Today’s Disruptive Marketplace

30 Mar 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Managing a global business with a portfolio of bra...

As the World Turns: Gender-Fluid Fashion

23 Mar 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Gen Z is setting the pace for rethinking fashion. ...

EV Charging Stations: New Moneymakers for Retail

16 Mar 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!EV charging stations represent the most electrifyi...

The Failure of U.S. Retail International Expansion

09 Mar 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!What’s up about leading U.S. retailers as serial...

A&F: The Meteoric Rise Back to Cool

02 Mar 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!A&F is making a dramatic comeback after its mi...

Andrew Jassy Is Redefining Amazon

23 Feb 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!What do you do when you’re an innovator that has...

The Evolution of Brand Management

16 Feb 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!There are many companies out there that can eat up...

Retail Leadership for Extraordinary Times

09 Feb 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!All the world’s a stage, and this year’s World...

Retooling and Speeding Up the Retail Model

02 Feb 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Inventory overload is clogging retail systems and ...

Creating a New Normal

26 Jan 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!What lies ahead? Post-pandemic, current economic d...

The Risks and Rewards of Next-Gen Artificial Intelligence

12 Jan 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!OpenAI started the cascade of generative AI innova...

The Nightmare After Christmas

05 Jan 2023

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Returns. And it’s not just during the holidays. ...

A Look Back at 2022

29 Dec 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!The Robin Report celebrates its 100 podcasts! List...

2023 Retail Trends: Surprises and Disruptions?

22 Dec 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!It’s that time of year again: predictions and pr...

Forecasting Can Be a Fool’s Game

15 Dec 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!When you consider holiday spending and economic fo...

The Shift to Small Neighborhood Stores

08 Dec 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!It may be the single most important strategic and ...

Mad Men 2.0?

01 Dec 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!There is a major transformation underway in retail...

Influencers: Working for You or Against You?

24 Nov 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Kanye West’s plummet as an influential force has...

Revealing the Future of Malls - with Bill Taubman

17 Nov 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Where are malls headed? And how are they surviving...

2022 Holiday Predictions - with Andy Mantis, Commerce Signals

10 Nov 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Consumers vote with their wallets and this holiday...

The Truth About Fashion’s Digital Transformation

03 Nov 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!The journey to digital transformation is an advent...

Is There ROI in Resale?

27 Oct 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!True that pre-loved can be re-loved in the circula...

Made in America: A New Perspective

20 Oct 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Call it crafted with pride in the U.S. or right so...

Inventory Surplus + Inflation = Disaster

13 Oct 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!A surplus of inventory plus rising inflation make ...

Data Overload: Why Your Top Talent Is Burned Out

06 Oct 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!McKinsey recently released research that reveals 6...

There’s No Playbook for Holiday 2022

29 Sep 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Holiday sales are starting in October with Black F...

Unlocking the Power of Personalization - With Dressipi's Sarah McVittie

22 Sep 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Personalization is table stakes. Data and predicti...

Malls and Nine Lives

15 Sep 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!What has 400,000-800,000 square feet of space and ...

The Fastest Growing eComm Company in the World...

08 Sep 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!that no one over the age of 33 has ever heard of. ...

Your Customers and the Final Frontier

01 Sep 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!The final frontier encompasses the science of reta...

How to Navigate Down Markets with Spatial Intelligence

25 Aug 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Understanding the movement inside a physical store...

What Can Retailers Expect for Back-to-School?

16 Aug 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Emerging challenges to back-to-school are led by i...

The New, New Rules of Retail

11 Aug 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Retail has a new face. Traditionally envisioned as...

Macy’s and Toys R Us: A Big Win?

04 Aug 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Here’s an interesting question: Will Macy’s an...

Get On the Build-to-Order Bandwagon

29 Jul 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Environmental impacts, demographic shifts in the U...

Is Big Tech Out of Control?

22 Jul 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Big tech firms are getting greedy and make more pr...

Workers Unite as Unions Make a Resurgence

14 Jul 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Unions are making a comeback strengthened by a tig...

BNPL: A Race to the Bottom

06 Jul 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Is BNPL (Buy Now, Pay Later) a better way to pay a...

Amazon 2.0: Turbulent Times

30 Jun 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Amazon’s internal forecasting system is its secr...

Inflation and Inventory: Doubling Down on Retail

24 Jun 2022

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We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us!Retailers over-forecasted inventory and supply doe...