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Accessorize; Fashion's Necessity and a Growth Industry
What is a LBD (“little black dress”) without a fabulous pair of earrings, or a statement necklace, a Spanish scarf (and fan please), or a rhinestone clutch? You know where I’m going. Coco Chanel made the LBD the must-have staple of a fashionable ...
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Getting the Pulse of Retail with Quarterly Earnings Report
If it’s August, while many are spending the last weeks of summer on the beach and postponing thoughts of the Back-to-School season with its necessary apparel and supplies purchases, retail analysts are desk bound dissecting earnings reports and ...
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Customer Lifetime Value “CLV” and why it matters
Customer Lifetime Value “CLV” and why it matters
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Amazon's Latest Foray Into Beauty
The beauty business, like most retail categories in department stores, has been in a state of disruption for most of the 21st century. As the department store channel consolidated and contracted, a process that began in the 1990s, beauty brands saw ...
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The Back-to-School Selling/Shopping Season Arrives
It's mid-July, it must be time to think about back-to-school purchases. Many retailers have been planning for this productive selling season, second only to the holiday selling season, since October 2016, though shoppers aren't earnestly in the ...
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Kidbox- Retailing 2020
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Think like an Entrepreneur
Digitization has allowed new disruptive entrants to capture any incremental growth the apparel retail industry has offered. VC-backed web-based businesses operate to a different set of values--scale quickly, profits later.
Meanwhile, social media ...
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A Look at Gen Z
Luxury Daily brought together about 100 marketers at its second annual Luxury Roundtable 2017: Engaging Gens X, Y, & Z on May 3 with more than a dozen panels and keynotes to focus on these younger cohorts and their attitudes towards the consumption ...
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Video Shopping 2.0
Online/Amazon might be destroying the business model of many retailers, but most ecommerce sites come in a weak third in terms of discovery, engagement, and experience, the key differentiators in a world where product fast becomes commoditized. Here ...