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How my least favorite brand became my favorite brand, all thanks to visual merchandising.
If you had asked me a year ago if I would ever be wearing...
You know I like a good acronym. CBS, HBO, YOLO, SMH, LOL, TGIF, and TBD.
In the retail space, we spend lots of time talking about UPTs. That is...
6 hours 30 minutes and 19 seconds.
That was the time I took to run the Chicago Marathon this past Sunday. This race was one hour longer...
As the general population is starting to prep for the holidays, retail must be one step ahead by focusing on sales training. We want to start this...
We’re saying it again: malls aren’t dead.
Are the cold, sterile malls populated by mindless franchises and untrained, unhappy employees...
For my 28th birthday, all the dreams of my 11th birthday came true: I finally received my acceptance letter to Hogwarts.
On a humid June day, we...
In 1910, Florence Nightingale Graham—though you might know her better as Elizabeth Arden—opened her first Red Door beauty salon on 5th...
Retailers, it’s time to face the facts: your customers don’t shop with you because it’s easy and convenient, or because...
Doughnuts inspire a lot of reactions: delight, salivation, swooning, palate glee and diet abandonment. At Hole Doughnuts in West Asheville,...
When we teach managers about employee selection, we recommend they begin each interview by describing a win-win relationship in employment. You...
One scene, two ways.
A customer walks into an upscale mall, red-bottomed heels clacking against polished marble, and traipses into a Prada store....
We’d begin by saying “We hope you’re doing well,” but we already know you are. After all, you’re the biggest retailer...
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