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Catherine Salfino

Accepting Reality: Positive or Negative, Customer Comments Can Be a Good Thing

Customers might not be real retail merchandisers, but they like to play them online. At least when it comes…

Clean Lines, Soothing Layers: What Consumers Want in Today’s Bedding

When Seinfeld’s Frank Costanza yelled, “Serenity now!” he wasn’t decorating his master bedroom with an en…

Behind Fashion’s Fabulousness, the Quiet Work of Sustainability

Every time there’s a major snowfall or painfully cold weather conditions, someone takes to Facebook to make a…

Dealing With the Millennials’ Urban Migration

If the children are our future, so, apparently, is a lot of urban living. Recent headlines have Millennials…

China Market Presents Strong Denim Opportunity

It might be clear around the other side of the world, but China's appreciation of that iconic American…

Learning from the Hiccups of Holiday 2015

This past holiday season, the American consumer could have been called anything from finicky to punctually…

Holiday 2015 Retail: A Longer Season, Changed by Mobile

Analysts are still predicting overall holiday sales increases in the low single digits over last year. But…

Retail Can Capitalize on Gender Neutral Movement

There’s something of a movement happening in fashion right now, but as rebellious as it might seem to the…

For Retail Apps, Beating the Uninstall is the Holy Grail

More than any other time of the year, everyone is shopping and nobody wants to overpay because they missed…

Supply Chain Increasingly Important in 24/7 Retail

When it comes to getting what they want, consumers don't really care what it takes for retailers to deliver…

Giving Consumers the Performance They Want—And Then Some

What if you could spill lunch down the front of your shirt, walk through torrential rain to get back to the…

It Appears 2015 ‘Tis The Season to Be Jolly

Now that everyone is filled with Halloween sugar regret, it's time to focus on something more positive. And…

More and More, Shoppers Drag Their Feet Heading Back To School

While consumers were taking their time to shop for back-to-school season, they were actually spending more…

Buttoning Up with Transitional Outerwear

It’s that time of year when a crisp fall day sounds great until you find you’ve left the house dressed in…

Fashion’s Steady Path Toward Sustainability

The global apparel industry is a $1.7 trillion business that employs several million people worldwide. It’s a…