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No Tie? No Problem.
Americans like staying home these days, and soft, casual apparel and home furnishings make all the comforts of home even more enticing.
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Instant Gratification
We live in a day and age when screens are an addiction and smartphones an appendage. It's also a time when consumers are spending less time wandering stores to shop,…
Consumers
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Denim with a Twist
Maybe it's because people in general have become multitaskers, we've come to expect everything else to do double duty, too: Phones that have cameras and internet capabilities. Brac
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Athleisure Works a New Angle
Remember when people bought gym clothes solely for working out? Don't feel bad if you don't. Over the last decade, with the help of brands like Lululemon and activities like…
Retail/Brands
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Fun & Games
You know what people do within minutes of waking up everyday? After sadly reconciling that they can't just turn over and go back to sleep and then kicking the pets…
Supply Chain
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Supply Chain Gets Reimagined
We live in a time when brands may very well be making clothes halfway around the world. This is also an age when customers want newness both in-store and online…
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A Good Season Overall
Perhaps one of the most convoluted questions of the New Year is: how did retail do over the holidays?
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Active Retailing
They're baaa-aaack. And they're as scary as ever. It's that time of year when all the calories that were happily consumed over the holidays have come back to haunt us…
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All Eyes Ahead
It will be a few weeks before we know how things shook out for Holiday 2016. But industry experts already know what trends to anticipate for the coming year. Some…
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Putting Creativity to the Holiday Test
The big holidays are just days away, and retailers are in the final push to get their merchandise out of their stores and warehouses and into customers' homes. Drumming up…