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November 4, 2026
Why Converting Failing Malls to Mixed-Use Residential Makes Financial Sense
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Converting failing Class B and C malls into mixed-use residential hubs is changing how investors value them, but the up-front costs and approvals mean it is a blueprint, not an
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November 3, 2026
Mid-Tier Retail Bankruptcies Collide With the Commercial Real Estate Maturity Wall
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November 3, 2026
Retail Real Estate
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October 27, 2026
Adaptive Real Estate Valuation: Why Failing Malls Are Becoming Mixed-Use Housing Hubs
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October 27, 2026
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October 27, 2026
The Illusion of the Resilient Consumer: How Inflation Is Masking Household Strain
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October 27, 2026
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October 27, 2026
The New Rules of Retail: How AI, GLP-1s and Quality Skepticism Are Rewriting the Fashion Playbook
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October 27, 2026
Retail
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October 21, 2026
Retailers Face Hard-Earned Dollars as 2026 Holiday Budgets Shrink Back to 2024 Levels
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October 21, 2026
Retail Real Estate
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October 21, 2026
Mall Foot Traffic Grew Across Every Format in September, Placer.ai Reports
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October 21, 2026
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October 20, 2026
How Accelerating Inflation is Reshaping Consumer Behavior and Retail Strategy
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October 20, 2026
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October 13, 2026
Can Retailers Win the Holiday Season Without Discounting Their Way There?
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October 13, 2026
Agentic Commerce
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October 13, 2026
Gladly Launches Agentic Commerce to Merge Retail Sales and Support
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October 13, 2026
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October 6, 2026
How October Spikes, AI Agents, and BNPL Are Reshaping Retail’s $275B Season
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October 6, 2026
Retail Tech
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October 6, 2026
NIQ Adds Conversational AI and Cloud Automation to Spaceman
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October 6, 2026
Retail
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October 6, 2026
DoorDash Adds Macy’s, Anthropologie and VF Corp. Brands to Retail Marketplace
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October 6, 2026
Retail Report
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September 30, 2026
The Retail Pressure Map: Four Forces Reshaping Retail in Q4 2026
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September 30, 2026
Q & A
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September 30, 2026
Moneymaxxing for Retirees: How Retirable Is Bringing Fiduciary Planning to Everyday Americans
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September 30, 2026
Retail
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September 29, 2026
Heavy Corporate Bankruptcies Drive Footprint Contraction Across U.S. Chains
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September 29, 2026
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September 28, 2026
Consumer Sentiment Falls to Multi-Year Low as Household Debt Mounts
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September 28, 2026
Executive Leadership
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September 22, 2026
PNC Report Reveals a Retirement Confidence Gap Among Retail Workers
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September 22, 2026
Retail
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September 22, 2026
Toys “R” Us to Open 120 Standalone Stores Ahead of Holidays
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September 22, 2026
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September 21, 2026
How Merciv’s AI Connects Sales Data, Reviews and Social Signals for Retailers
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September 21, 2026
Retail
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September 15, 2026
Is the Mall Comeback Real? August Data Says Yes
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September 15, 2026
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September 15, 2026
New Research Ranks 100 Countries on Internet Resilience — the Results Should Inform Every Market Strategy
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September 15, 2026
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September 9, 2026
Study Finds Shoppers Keep Researching Products After Deciding to Buy
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September 9, 2026
Retail
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September 8, 2026
Simbe Adds VP of Client Success, Expands Industry Leadership Roles
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September 8, 2026
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September 8, 2026
Ryder’s Jeff Wolpov on Why Delivery Predictability Beats Speed
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September 8, 2026
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September 1, 2026
AI Job Creation: Virginia, Colorado, and Utah Lead the Way
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September 1, 2026
Economy
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September 1, 2026
Are Consumers Cutting Back — or Just Choosing Differently?
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September 1, 2026
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September 1, 2026
$80 Billion and Climbing: Digital Video Ad Spend Up 11% in 2026
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September 1, 2026
Retail
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August 12, 2026
Data Shows Holiday Shopping Decisions Are Made by November
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August 12, 2026
Retail
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August 12, 2026
The ‘Barbell Effect’: Why Mid-Tier Retail Is Losing
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August 12, 2026
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August 11, 2026
The Growing Pains of Modern Store Intelligence: Why Retail Tech Scaling Is Leaving Billions on the Table
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August 11, 2026
AI
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August 4, 2026
Consumers Want AI to Shop with Them, Not for Them
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August 4, 2026
Retail
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August 4, 2026
Why Can’t You Find Canned Sardines Right Now?
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August 4, 2026
Tariffs
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July 31, 2026
Consumers, Retailers and Brand Face Fresh Fallout From New Round of Tariffs
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July 31, 2026
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July 10, 2026
Mega-Cap Retailers Pull Away as Mid-Tier Brands Struggle in 2026
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July 10, 2026
AI
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July 10, 2026
AI-Powered Identity Fraud Surges 700%, Exposing Vulnerabilities in Static Digital Defenses
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July 10, 2026
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July 7, 2026
Is the American Dream Still Mathematically Possible?
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July 7, 2026
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June 16, 2026
How High Fashion and Streetwear Collisions Rewrote the Corporate World Cup Playbook
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June 16, 2026
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June 16, 2026
How the U.S.–Iran Peace Deal Could Reset Global Inflation
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June 16, 2026
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June 9, 2026
The Luxury Recalibration: What High-End Brands Must Do Now
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June 9, 2026
Economy
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June 9, 2026
April Trade Deficit Narrows — But the Real Story Is in the Import Data
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June 9, 2026
Retail
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June 9, 2026
AI Dominates European Shopping — But Packaging Still Drives Brand Loyalty
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June 9, 2026
Retail
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June 3, 2026
A Decade of Sales Data Shows Millennials Are Treating Rolex Like Equity
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June 3, 2026
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June 3, 2026
600 AI Jobs a Month: Why Virginia Ranked #1 for AI Adoption in the U.S.
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June 3, 2026
Retail
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June 2, 2026
Research Shows a Preference for Shopping Malls Among Gen Z
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June 2, 2026
Retail
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May 27, 2026
The Autonomous Commerce Transformation
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May 27, 2026
Retail Real Estate
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May 26, 2026
Retail Gave Back 4.6 Million Square Feet in Q1. Rents Rose Anyway.
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May 26, 2026
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May 26, 2026
Why Are Graduates Booing AI at Graduation? The Answer Has Real Implications for Retail Hiring
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May 26, 2026
Retail
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May 20, 2026
How Urban Danger Metrics Are Redefining Retail Strategy and Consumer Spending
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May 20, 2026
Retail
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May 20, 2026
The Sizing Guessing Game Is Driving a Massive Surge in Online Returns
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May 20, 2026
Retail
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May 19, 2026
Four Retailers Now Control 17.5% of All U.S. Brick-and-Mortar Traffic
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
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May 19, 2026
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May 13, 2026
How Agentic AI is Rewiring the Global Retail Engine
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May 13, 2026
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May 13, 2026
Digital Divide or Digital Dawn? Mississippi Leads 1,024% Surge in AI Interest While Other States Cool
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May 13, 2026
Finance
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May 12, 2026
53% of Americans Rely on Revolving Debt for Basic Living Costs — and Retail Is Exposed
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May 12, 2026
Analysis
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May 6, 2026
The Triple Threat Reshaping American Consumer Spending — and What Retail Leaders Are Doing About It
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May 6, 2026
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May 6, 2026
Is New York’s Data Breach Crisis Worse Than You Think?
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May 6, 2026
Service
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May 5, 2026
Why Are Millions of Professionals Still Afraid to Negotiate Their Salary?
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May 5, 2026
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April 29, 2026
The ‘Inside States’ Are Fashion’s New Frontier — And Coastal Brands Are Still Asleep
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April 29, 2026
Retail
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April 28, 2026
Emoji Searches in Fashion and Footwear Surged 42% in 2025 — and They’re Getting More Complex
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April 28, 2026
Retail Tech
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April 28, 2026
Adobe Builds the Operating Layer for a Zero-Click Commerce Era
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April 28, 2026
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April 23, 2026
Claude Design Is Here. Fashion, Beauty and Retail Should Pay Attention.
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April 23, 2026
artificial intelligence
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April 22, 2026
The Law Is Losing the Deepfake Race. One State Is Trying to Change That
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April 22, 2026
Retail
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April 21, 2026
The New Retail Content: Curation, Connection, and the End of the Online versus Offline War
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
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April 21, 2026
Analysis
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April 8, 2026
What Has Been Apple’s Impact on Retail Strategy and Global Business Over its 50-year History?
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
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April 8, 2026
Housing Market
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April 8, 2026
How Will Rising Mortgage Rates and Economic Uncertainty Affect Consumer Spending and Retail Strategy in 2026?
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April 8, 2026
Retail
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April 8, 2026
What Does Amazon Downtime Cost U.S. Third-Party Sellers, and Which Markets are Most at Risk?
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April 8, 2026
Retail Tech
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April 1, 2026
The LMS Is Out. Mobile Associate Platforms Are In. Here’s Who’s Leading.
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
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April 1, 2026
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March 30, 2026
Maximalism, Mushrooms, and Machines: Inside the Footwear Trends of 2026
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
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March 30, 2026
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March 25, 2026
Workers to Foot the Bill for Corporate AI: 54% of U.S. Companies Cutting Pay to Fund Tech Investments
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March 25, 2026
Retail Technology
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March 25, 2026
The Checkout Reimagined: How Qbuster Technologies is Using Edge AI and Smart Merchandising to Save the Physical Queue
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
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March 25, 2026
Retail
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March 21, 2026
The Bionic Retail Era: How AI and ‘Agentic Commerce’ Are Rewriting the Rules
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
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March 21, 2026
Analysis
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March 20, 2026
Macy’s Inc. Signals ‘Inflection Point’ as Bold New Chapter Strategy Delivers Positive Comp Sales
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
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March 20, 2026
Retail
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March 20, 2026
Resilience Amid Rising Costs: Massachusetts Leads U.S. in Consumer Spending
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
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March 20, 2026
Retail
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March 14, 2026
The Alchemist’s Mandate: Leading Through Chaos, Craft, and the Feminine Center
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
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March 14, 2026
Agentic Commerce
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March 9, 2026
From Fragmented CVS Receipts to One Source of Truth: Meet the Agentic Commerce OS
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
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March 9, 2026
Analysis
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February 26, 2026
The ‘Birkin Boom’ – Why Luxury Handbags Are Outpacing the S&P 500
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
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February 26, 2026
Retail
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January 27, 2026
Beyond the Balance Sheet: The Real Challenge Facing the New Saks Global
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
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January 27, 2026
Analysis
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January 15, 2026
Retail’s Big Shakeup: Major Brands File for Chapter 11 Amid High Debt and Stiff Competition
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January 15, 2026
Retail
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January 15, 2026
Trend Spy: Retail Outlook 2026
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
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January 15, 2026
Marketing
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June 23, 2025
Beyond the Storefront: Experiential Marketing in the World of Wellness
Olivia Baron
Olivia Baron
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June 23, 2025
AI Strategy
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May 27, 2025
Will You Be My Friend?
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
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May 27, 2025
Press Release
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May 27, 2025
Arthur Zaczkiewicz Joins Corner of Fifth as Strategic Content Contributor
Cass Spencer
Cass Spencer
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May 27, 2025
Beauty
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May 21, 2025
Wellness Takes Center Stage in the Global Economy: The New Luxury Lifestyle Driving Trillion-Dollar Growth
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
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May 21, 2025
Retail
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May 21, 2025
Walmart’s Resilience Faces Tariff Challenge, But Small Businesses Feel the Heat
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
Arthur Zaczkiewicz
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May 21, 2025
Beauty
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March 11, 2025
The Revolution in Beauty Will Be Digitalized
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March 11, 2025
Service
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January 27, 2025
Navigating the Anti-DEI Climate: A Shifting Landscape for Business
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January 27, 2025
Service
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January 13, 2025
Can Bio-Based Chemistry Save Fashion from Itself? Annikki Believes So
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January 13, 2025
Beauty
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October 16, 2024
Beauty and Cosmetics: A Trend Report
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October 16, 2024
Finance
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September 27, 2024
Revolutionizing Entry-Level Recruitment in Finance with Non-Coding Roles and Tailored Training Programs
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September 27, 2024
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September 17, 2024
A Look Into Community Events From High-Engagement Brands
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September 17, 2024
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