Finish Line has its struggles. A mall-based retailer – in a crowded space and previously focused on “just shoes” – Finish Line lost share for five years to the lifestyle merchandised Foot Locker and its own supplier’s direct-to-consumer efforts. A strategy to place 300+ shop-in-shops in…
2018 was another banner year for private label. In a report issued by the PLMA utilizing Nielsen data, store brand sales across all outlets grew to $128.6 billion, up 4.4% from a year prior. Total market share from a dollar perspective grew to 18.5% in…
New York-based beauty brand Glossier has joined the ranks among the growing list of startup unicorns. What started as a beauty blog by then Vogue fashion assistant Emily Weiss, is now valued as a $1.2 billion company after recently raising $100 million in Series D funding led by…
8,400 of retail’s senior leaders converged on Las Vegas to attend this year’s Shoptalk. The conference showcased 286 speakers, 100+ sessions, and powerful keynotes from CEOs of Pinterest, Lowes, Dollar Shave Club, and Nordstrom to name a few. The content from the conference covered the…
GETTY Online retail behemoth Amazon is at it yet again. Announced today, Amazon is said to be pursuing their own stand-along grocery stores with aggressive growth plans over the next coming years. The first location is slated to open in Los Angeles potentially before the…
Disruption is here and taking over the retail industry. Retailers who are winning deliver on one of three extremes: extreme value, extreme convenience or extreme experience. Value-driven retailers are taking ‘cheapest’ to the next level. Convenience focused retailers are removing friction from the buying process….
Spyce is the one of the first restaurants to feature a completely robotic kitchen cooking complex, nutritious, tasty meals. Located in Boston, the restaurant is the brainchild of four M.I.T. graduates based on a vision of cooking affordable, healthy food, robotically, delivering at the intersection of…
Retail is changing at a rapid rate, and to no surprise, much of that change is being driven by new technologies and digital innovations that put consumers in the drivers seat and bring the idea of omnichannel to new heights. Omniexperience is the first trend…
Hema, the next generation retail experience and brainchild of Alibaba, is a supermarket hybrid that operates on cutting-edge innovations. Serving as both a retail store and fulfillment center for online shopping, Hema brings convenience to new heights by offering in-store picking for online purchases, with…
Amazon Go is now up to six stores in three cities: their home market in Seattle, two in Chicago and the latest to open in downtown San Francisco. Two more are planned for Chicago, as well as another in San Francisco. As a nomadic business…
