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30+ industry experts & reporters. 15+ years of daily publishing. 1 monthly retail newsletter. Read up on the latest insights, trends, updates, and predictions in retail and consumer products from December — conveniently compiled by our team into an insightful monthly recap.

Whatever normalization trends emerged in retail throughout 2024 may be fundamentally reversed next year if, or when, Trump’s promised imposition of tariffs takes place: https://lnkd.in/eQQTgzEC Throughout the consumer space, whether on the manufacturing or retail side, plans are already being drawn up to accommodate tariff-driven price increases. While 2024 can be best described as a "year of recovery" in retail, 2025 could very well revert back to a "year of weakness" like we saw during Covid/post-Covid times. Read on. #InflationImpactOnRetail #RetailTrends #RetailForecast2025

The "silver generation" has an enviable spending power that accounts for an increasing share of consumption — with ~73 % of all U.S. wealth accounted for by those 55+: https://lnkd.in/eTzWb94P 👉 Per capita spending on clothing among those 59+ in the U.S. was 21% higher than that of millennials and Gen Z combined 👉 In Great Britain, France, and Spain, women 55+ account for nearly half of all beauty product sales The takeaway? Brands that craft a silver strategy tailored to specific needs and aspirations can significantly impact their bottom line. Read on. #SilverGenerationSpendingPower #FashionRetail #RetailInsights

Are international cotton markets a bellwether for global retail economies? https://lnkd.in/ecSjf488 Read up on the latest (free) report on global cotton production as a reflection of macro trends, including insight on: ✔️ Consumer spending ✔️ Impeding tariffs ✔️ How ^ they may affect consumer pricing #RetailNews #RetailSustainability #RetailTrends

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We’re ending the year, not without some retail drama and headlines. Talk about naughty and nice. This week The Robin Report has both a retail Hit and Miss. Let's start with Party City — and in light of bankruptcies for Big Lots and The Container Store — it's the bankruptcy process itself that is a Miss, especially regarding Party City. Less than a year after emerging from its last Chapter 11 trip, the chain is now liquidating, which reveals the court, attorneys, creditors, and just about everybody involved in this mess who should be taken to task for letting this happen. Party City was allowed to come out of Chapter 11 still with an enormous debt load, virtually all its stores, and not much in the way of a new strategy; so liquidation really shouldn't come as much of a shock to anyone. It's the system that’s a Miss and needs fixing... because future retail bankruptcies are far from finished, we fear. On the positive side, our Hit is Nordstrom, which is finally being taken private by the founding family with the help of Mexican retail chain El Puerto de Liverpool. The Nordstrom brothers will now have the ability to run their business without Wall Street and assorted Barbarians at the Gate attacking it, as its fellow department store Macy's has had to suffer through. And with real retailers like the Nordstrom family in charge, there's a good chance they will make things better in a back-to-the-future moment of what made Nordstrom great in the first place. Yin and Yang? Maybe. Hit and Miss? Absolutely. #PartyCityBankruptcyCourt #NordstromGoesPrivate #RetailNews

What began as a mall-centric experiential retailer transformed into a global powerhouse. Build-A-Bear Workshop's CEO joins us this week: https://lnkd.in/grqqYk6E (🎙️🎧 28m2s) Listen in as we reveal how questioning traditional retail assumptions led to breakthrough insights about tourist locations, hospitality partnerships, and multi-generational appeal. Featuring Sharon Price John. Hosted by Shelley E. Kohan. #RetailNews #RetailTrends #RetailInsights

Things were looking rough for Gap brands for a while there. Now their net income is $274M compared to $218M last year, with earnings per share up 24.1%: https://lnkd.in/e7hY4M3j How did Gap manage to turn the ship around and, more importantly, how did they do it in this tumultuous economic landscape? We broke down some of their most genius (and cringe-worthy) moves. #GapBrandReinvention #FashionRetail #RetailMarketing Jasmine Glasheen

A whopping 70% of holiday shoppers abandoned a purchase because an item they wanted was out of stock. Fortunately, the latest updates in retail AI have solved the problem: https://lnkd.in/ewbWs7Zj With real-time data, managers can make informed decisions on how to reallocate merchandise and restock stores to deliver a better customer experience. *NOTE: Not all AI is created equally. The key is to know what tools work hand in hand with the workforce in alleviating repetitive tasks enabling them to make better, faster business decisions. Read on. #RealTimeInventoryManagementTools #RetailPredictiveAnalytics #RetailTechnology