Fast on the heels of Walmart’s surprise sale of Asda to Sainsbury’s for nearly $10 billion comes further news on the battle for Flipkart, one of the top players in India’s fast growing e-commerce market. For context, India is a booming retail market but one…
Macy’s announced its acquisition of Story today. Story, the 2000 square foot location on 10th Avenue in Manhattan, opened in 2010 and has been rooted in the retail trends that consumers on the higher-end of the market have been migrating towards for over a…
The news of a pending merger between Sainsbury’s and Walmart owned Asda is sending shockwaves across the British retail world. It should also be doing the same on a global scale, as it speaks to both an intense concentration of market share and the continued…
McMillanDoolittle, a retail consulting firm focused on converting customer insights into strategies, will be a sponsor and participant at Northwestern University’s Retail Robotics and AI Conference. The conference is organized and hosted jointly by Northwestern’s Retail Analytics Council and the Platt Retail Institute. It will…
Official today, Bon-Ton stores are bound for liquidation and the closure of all of its stores. There was hope that Bon-Ton could survive the Chapter 11 filing when a group consisting of DW Partners, and real estate firms Namdar Realty Group and Washington Prime Group…
Recently, we’ve commented on brands and retailers taking a lead as social activists. Starbucks has used its reach – 8,000 US Stores with 175,000 employees – to voice its position on social and political views multiple times. The company has encouraged conversations about race and…
Over 2 billion active users visited Facebook each month in 2017.   Facebook connected those 2 billion users to 6 million advertisers and generated nearly $40 billion in advertising revenue for the company. In turn, that marketing spend created something rare for CMO’s at brands and…
Retail bankruptcies in 2018 are starting off similarly to the way 2017 finished up with wave after wave of prominent retailers filing for bankruptcy. The latest casualty of Retailmageddon is Nine West, the iconic seller of shoes who will no longer be selling footwear as their saga…
One of my favorite arguments with colleagues concerns the state of the overall retail industry. 2017 was actually a banner year for overall retail sales, with a strong Holiday season propelling overall retail sales up 4.2%. True, sales of on-line retail grew at a significantly…
Forrester just released The State of Global Online Retail, 2018. The headlines are clear: Global Online Grocery Sales Will Double By 2022. Forrester expects the global online grocery market to double from $150 billion in 2017 to $334 billion by 2022, powered by increased investment…
