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Retail/Brands

The High and Low Of It

The designer collaboration is alive, well and multiplying rapidly — a fact that should keep shoppers awash in one-offs for quite some time.  But the newest collaborations are breaking with…

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Retail/Brands

In Celebration of Shopping

Fashion’s Night Out is back.  And for those wondering if it is bigger and better than ever, in a word: Bieber.  As in, Justin Bieber, who says in the event’s…

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Retail/Brands

As You Like It

The good thing about malls, city shopping districts and e-commerce sites is the bounty of retail choices they provide.  But such abundance makes it trickier for stores to differentiate themselves.…

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Supply Chain

Force of Impact

The subject of outsourcing usually has to do with U.S. jobs that have been lost to overseas companies.  But when the apparel industry outsourced its manufacturing, it also sent production…

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Retail/Brands

Getting Personal

In an effort to hone in on what makes consumers buy rather than browse, retail science has gotten a little…sci-fi. For brick and mortar stores, there are “technologies like heat…

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Retail/Brands

Seeking Social Skills

For today’s retailers, the question is no longer whether to use Facebook, but whether Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr are being used as effectively as possible. Smart stores realize social…

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Supply Chain

Turning Back to the Real Thing

Cotton prices have returned to historical averages, and that is good news for both the apparel industry and consumers. When cotton prices spiked in March 2011, some retailers and manufacturers…

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Supply Chain

When Jobs Come Marching Home Again

One of the major factors in the country’s stubborn unemployment numbers is the loss of manufacturing jobs — 5.6 million in the last decade. All the off-shoring paired with the…

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Consumers

Delivering On Denim

[chart align=”right”]/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/keyinsights.jpg[/chart] The love affair with denim crosses continents, continues to inspire creativity in products beyond jeans, and shows resilience even in economically uncertain times. In the U.S. alone, more…

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Retail/Brands

Flash Dance

Out of the Great Recession came a fun twist on e-commerce: flash sale sites, which combined the art of the deal with wallet-friendly prices – and consumers flocked in droves.…

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