28th June 2018
Targetting the wrong customers? Misunderstanding the internet? Spending too much on the wrong things?
Is retail really collapsing? Management’s just getting misguided
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View AllSears files for bankruptcy
Once the world’s largest retailer, the company has lost $6bn – and 80% of its its staff – over the past five years
The “more inclusive” American Apparel: different DNA, same jeans?
They say:”a celebration of diversity and inclusivity”. But one jean only goes only up to a size 32, though the average American woman is a 38 .
US/Mexico/Canada deal “may bar deals with China”
The proposed US-Mexico-Canada agreement (USMCA) may prevent signatories from starting trade talks with China, experts claimed
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8th October 2018
UK Parliament demands social accountability records from ten leading clothing retailers
Mary Creagh, Chair of the UK Parliament's Environmental Audit Committee revealed on October 5 she had sent a social accountability questionnaire to the country's ten leading clothing retailers , asking:. 1. Are all...
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19th September 2018
Are we really facing total retail collapse? Or have too many retailers just been misguided?
An awful lot of people are telling us retail's collapsing - or at least fleeing to the internet. Among recent front-page horrors have been Sears in the US hinting it’s...
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Read how retailers need to rely on their own customer insights, recapture their self-confidence, and rediscover their native frugality to avoid being the next front page horror story.
