Inside Retail

JULY 23, 2024

Marie Driscoll, a chartered financial analyst and a professor at Parsons, The New School and the Fashion Institute of Technology, told Inside Retail that the deal was inevitable considering the current state of US department stores. “The

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In addition to beauty specialty retailers, we are focused on meeting the customer where they already shop for home devices. So big-box retailers are top of mind for us,” Eric Neher, Canopy’s chief marketing officer, told Inside Retail. They now include Amazon, The Container Store, Bluemercury, Nordstrom and Sephora.

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Retail Prophet

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

and in the process laid waste to untold numbers of local independent and specialty retailers as well as mid-sized regional chains. It was here, in the smoldering aftermath of the financial crisis, and under intense shareholder pressure, that Walmart hatched a plan. A plan that would ultimately prove ironic in its naming.

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VMS

JANUARY 10, 2023

26, the same figure the struggling retailer said it expected to post in a business update it issued last week. That update also said there is “substantial doubt” the specialty retailer can continue operating, but the latest release did not include that phrasing. (Union, N.J.)

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VMS

JANUARY 10, 2023

26, the same figure the struggling retailer said it expected to post in a business update it issued last week. That update also said there is “substantial doubt” the specialty retailer can continue operating, but the latest release did not include that phrasing. (Union, N.J.)

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Retail Bound

MARCH 7, 2023

Brands also need to think about the level of customer service and how the retail store partner will ensure that good customer support for their product. All retailers are not the same, and a good go-to-market retail store strategy will consider the pros and cons of going with a large retail chain, a regional chain, or a specialty retailer.

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Inside Retail

JULY 26, 2021

Best & Less sees itself as a hybrid between a discount department store (DDS) and specialty retailer. “We We are a value retailer, like DDS participants, but we approach it with a specialty mindset. On being everyday low cost. For us, quality and value must go hand in hand,” Orrock said. “We

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Inside Retail

MARCH 11, 2025

For an all too brief period, the Alceon investment house achieved its ambition to be the largest womens fashion specialty retailer in Australia. The only problem was the nine retail brands trading from around 1350 stores were a house of cards with a flawed investment play without retail smarts.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

One of Australia’s oldest retailers, Harris Scarfe , has traded continuously for 175 years. Here, we speak with CEO Graham Dean about the challenges of scaling a business at the right pace, the importance of a consistent growth strategy and how global department stores can compete with specialty retailers.

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