In an unusual turn of events, the sands are shifting under Whole Foods Markets—and now it’s in trouble. In short order, Whole Foods, the quintessential upmarket food retailer, has gone from being a Wall Street darling to a Wall Street […]
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Charade is a nice way of describing what I believe to be the biggest issue in mainstream retailing today. The charade? “Spinmeistering,” including many of the top executives across all retail sectors — Nordstrom’s, HBC, (Saks Off Fifth and Lord
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Here is one more glaring example of the absurd and frankly, stupid “short-termism” of Wall Street and the investment community. Doug McMillon, Walmart’s relatively new CEO, its youngest ever at age 49 and its first merchant-chief since Sam Walton, recently
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If So, Is Stefan Larsson Up to Chief Navigator? Let’s take a minute and talk about the three major storm fronts that seem to be colliding at the same time in the “House of Lauren.” In my view, these fronts
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My favorite 14-year-old girl, like so many in her generation, is lost without her phone. In spite of school, sports, eating and sleeping, she spends almost eight hours a day on social media. Instagram and Snapchat are her addictions. Selfies
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I have seen sheets—high-thread-count, perfectly percale, cotton as soft as a baby’s bottom—made…and it’s not a pretty sight. Can you say formaldehyde? While all kinds of cause celebs are breaking out over what goes into the food we eat, we
Back in the 1950s with McCarthyism barely in the rearview, my parents always warned me never to sign anything for fear I would be a branded a Communist agitator. I was 6 at the time. In the 1960s and 1970s
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You have been working hard and deserve a vacation. If you were told you would have the perfect “dream” vacation but have no memory of it afterwards, how much would you be willing to pay? Chances are, not very much.
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Both Economically and Politically Stock markets are crashing around the world, as I write this. China is cited as the culprit — or at least the catalyst. Some $10 trillion has evaporated from the global stock market since a June
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Kickstarter in Your Future? The first question you might ask yourself when starting a new business is: “Am I selling something that people actually want?” This may be stating the obvious, but nowhere is this concept more true than in
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