Are Consumers Doing their Shopping Online or In Line?

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by Moodie Coretti, Director of Ecommerce, Pinnacle Foods The grocery industry is experiencing significant changes which are set to change the future of grocery shopping in the United States in the near and far future. The grocery disruption being felt by consumers, retailers and the supplier community as a whole is driven by the ever-growing […]

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Is This the Recession or Resurgence of Retail?

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by Alicia Erdman, Founder and Principal, Wildwood Advisory Group Forecasts for retail have been particularly dire recently, with many news outlets anticipating a retail “apocalypse” as e-commerce continues to gain traction. However, performance on Black Friday and through the remainder of the holiday season of 2017 was strong. Even some department stores – the format […]

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When it Comes to E-Commerce, You Can Bet on Pets

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by Phillip Cooper, Pet Industry Expert and President, North American Sales & Marketing As the number of pet parents increase, individuals are doing more and spending more to take care of their “fur babies”. Whether they are buying the basics, like food, grooming and boarding, or their pets are enjoying more lavish lifestyles with stays […]

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The Sustainability Opportunity: Tell Your Story, Reinforce Trust In Your Brand

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by Carl Jorgensen, Director, Thought Leadership-Wellness, Daymon Worldwide The foundational idea is that something is sustainable is that it is resilient and long-lasting. Or, as the famed University of Chicago economist Milton Friedman framed it, “What is unsustainable will not be sustained.” To those of us running businesses and those of us making public policy, […]

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WeWork, Coworking and The Disruption of Office Real Estate

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by Alex Cohen, Chief, Commercial Specialist at Compass Between August 2016 and July 2017, only Amazon has leased more office space than WeWork in the United States. Though shared office spaces (office environments in which multiple firms sublet places to work within a single demised office space) still occupy less than 1% of all office space in the United […]

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No Need to Wait for Driverless Cars

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by Alex Cohen, Lead, Commercial Specialist for CORE Group Marketing In less than five years, Uber and its competitors transformed the way many of us choose to get around cities. Likewise, they disrupted the business and leisure traveler’s attachment to rental cars. Now much attention is focused on how driverless cars will inevitably transform urban and […]

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How Mattress Retailers Can Compete in the Online Jungle

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by Gordon Hecht, Growth and Development Manager, Serta Simmons Bedding Note to brick and mortar mattress retailers: it’s a jungle out there and the jungle starts online. Give up the belief that you sell the one product that people have to try before they buy. It’s not true for apparel, and it’s no longer true […]

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What Do Retailers Actually Need to Survive?

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by Gebhard Rainer, Former President and COO, Coach We all know the retail landscape is overdue for a big change. The department store segment is deeply troubled, traditional brands are facing challenges, and established brands are acquiring smaller brands—in May, Coach acquired Kate Spade in an effort to become a multi-brand organization and rejuvenate its […]

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Whole Foods: what’s really in the purchase for Amazon?

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by Charles Moore, President, Premier Products Amazon’s Whole Foods purchase seems counterintuitive. Why would the highest valued company in the world—with a business model that puts retailers like Whole Foods out of business—want to acquire them? Sure, it would make Amazon the second largest retailer of the long term double digit growth trend in organic […]

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Think You Can Ignore Cybersecurity Advances? You Can’t

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by Darrell Jones, Head of Global Information Security, Herbalife In recent years, we’ve seen more and more large corporations and entities become targets for cybersecurity attacks: Fedex, Amazon, Target, Netflix, and even several countries among countless others have been affected. Threat of cyberattack has led companies to make major changes in the way they store […]

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