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Six months into the job, JCPenney's new CEO Jill Soltau is filling out her executive team with alumni from Macy's, Walmart, and Target.
Today's mass retailers are pushing into children's apparel by experimenting with a variety of purchasing models, and pushing more premium brands.
Over the past seven years, Best Buy become a model example of how big-box retailers can survive in the age of Amazon.
It's shaping up to be the year of spin-offs in retail, as brands that have struggled for years to grow sales are offloading their best-performing assets.
Drugstores are embracing CBD (cannabidiol) products, pushing the trend into the mass market.
Big-box retailers are hesitant to give over any part of their business to Amazon, and that includes their cloud-computing businesses.
Adidas is doubling down on its partnerships with non-athletes.
Serial entrepreneur Eric Ryan still believes that the best way to build a CPG brand that can scale is by working with mass retailers.
Retailers are increasingly giving their wedding and baby registries a high-tech upgrade, in response to changing consumer tastes and competition from digitally-native startups.
J.Crew is giving Madewell a bigger spotlight, as the denim-driven brand looks to double its annual sales.
Walmart is bulking up its online strategy for groceries, using multiple touch points.
A blow-up is brewing at Bed Bath & Beyond.
Pinterest’s imminent IPO raises fresh questions about how big of a role the platform will play in the future of social commerce.
Retailers are slowly starting to adapt a playbook for rolling out plus-sized collections that more closely mirrors that of their other product lines.
The principal at seed-stage venture fund Lerer Hippeau says DTC brands should be prepared to pitch her on their strategies for selling on Amazon.
Emilie Arel joined Casper in late 2019 as its president and chief commercial officer. She oversees all the disparate and growing parts of Casper's retail business. Arel spoke on the Modern Retail Podcast about what she's focused on during her tenure, as well as how the pandemic through everything into disarray. "I don't think we recognized how much people would invest in their home so quickly," she said. "We had no clue we'd still be sitting in our houses almost a year from then that was not on the horizon."
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