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Boosted by Tax Reform, Economic Trends Will Continue in Retailers’ Favor
Coming off of a stronger than expected holiday, retailers wonder if the momentum is sustainable as they work…
Chain Stores Will Determine Which Properties Survive the Mall Apocalypse
Ahead of the next round of retail closures, Green Street's Advisory Group has analyzed how chain stores…
Cushman & Wakefield’s Retail Predictions for 2018 Are Not What You Want to Hear
Top analyst says we didn't close the book on the retail apocalypse narrative last year—2018 is just a new…
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Apparel Exports Jump in November on Shipments to Nicaragua
Although apparel imports sustained only modest gains in recent months, reversing earlier declines, exports of…
Is TJX Showing Signs of an Off-Price Slowdown For 2018?
While most other retailers were in contraction mode, off-price players were ramping up store openings and new…
Sears Starts the Year with 103 Store Closures
The Sears Holdings of 2018 is already starting to look like the Sears Holdings of 2017.
Is Target Amazon’s Next Acquisition? One Analyst Says Yes
Retail analysts agree the online giant is in acquisition mode but they differ on whether the Bull's Eye…
Cold Weather is Good for Retail—But Only if Stores Plan Appropriately
Buy now, wear now consumers shop based on the current temperature but even when the weather cooperates…
Here Come the Returns—And These Are the Logistics Issues and Costs That Will Come With Them
Retailers have long dealt with the headache of holiday returns, and as e-commerce has grown, so have the…
Sourcing Costs Climb: Wage Increases Set to Affect 2018
This past year saw a continuance of workers, unions—and even some companies—pushing for living wage pay, and…
Cotton Prices 2017: The Year in Review, Looking Ahead
The magnitude of cotton price increases in early 2018 could depend on the extent to which demand picks up to…
2017 Bankruptcy Infographic: Apparel Retail’s Year of Reckoning
Though the Internet had been taking ever bigger bites out of traditional retail for years, 2017 exposed just…
Sourcing in 2018: The Predictions, The Challenges, The Hard Truths
There's been a general consensus among those in sourcing that after the year of uncertainty that was 2016…
Infographic: Defying Doubts, A Diminished Sears Dodges Bankruptcy Throughout 2017
While other retailers fell into bankruptcy during the year, Sears Holdings managed to hang on thanks to a…
Infographic: The 2017 Amazon, Walmart Turf War
For Walmart and Amazon, 2017 was the year of the arms race as the two duked it out over apparel cred…