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This Season’s Hottest Gift? Only Time Will Sell
What’s the tech gift to watch this holiday season? We recently ran our predictive analytics on eight new smartwatches and found that 73% of people are considering purchasing one this holiday season –...
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Sneaker Fashion Trends Bridge the Gap Between Athletic and Contemporary
Sneakers are becoming increasingly popular as footwear fashion trends combine athletic functionality with high-end style. Athletic and contemporary wear have generally been at odds with one another....
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Luxury Watches Won't Bend to Upstart Smartwatches
Despite the oncoming disruption from the Apple Watch, luxury watch retailers don't seem to be very scared of seeing their market share taking a hit going forward.In many industries, established giants...
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Rebecca Minkoff's new stores could be the template for a fully integrated...
Rebecca Minkoff's new stores could prove to be the model for seamlessly integrating consumer technology into retail. If retailers want to maintain or grow their market share, they would do well to...
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Google Glass gets Shelved. Is a Comeback Possible?
It's official: Google Glass, once the poster child of the wearables trend, has been shelved. Google made the announcement on Jan.19, and while many pundits and reporters have called the project a...
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What’s Hot from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES)? Ask the Consumer.
CES has come and gone, but the question remains: which gadgets are consumers most likely to buy?Click to download the full reportLooking to find out just that, First Insight ran its predictive...
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The Sports Apparel and Tech Worlds are Rapidly Converging
Representations of high school in movies always include the classic juxtaposition of the nerdy kids, decked out with their favorite gadgets, and the jocks who did their best to hide those other kids...
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'The Uber of X' and The On-Demand Economy
You know you're onto something when the name of your company starts to enter the tech world's lexicon as a popular verb form. While we've been Googling things for a while now, it hasn't been very...
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Data: The Oil in Today’s New Economy
Data is "oil in the new economy," and that's having a profound effect on how retailers will do business moving forward.By now, most retailers know that digital technologies have irreversibly altered...
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Speed. Scale. Science. The Future of Market Research
The world of market research has come a long way in the last 100 years. For decades following the great depression, companies had a patriarchal orientation to product development. Products were...
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You Lost Me Because of $50 off a Prom Tux Rental
A while back I signed up for one of those digital coupon sites. They only asked me my gender and to pick out some stores I like to shop. And VOILÀ, here come the emails.Lots of them.As with any...
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What Kind of Watch Buyer Are You?
You can tell a lot about a person by the time he or she keeps. Or at least that was Ken Kessler’s assertion in a 2011 WSJ article entitled “What Your Watch Says About You.” From Banker to Bohemian,...
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The Limited and Rebecca Minkoff Move the Financial Needle with Consumer...
NRF 2016 is in the books and “The BIG Show,” as always, did not fail to deliver on the hottest topics in the retail industry. This year’s Big Idea and breakout sessions covered everything under the...
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Getting Past the Cut at PROJECT New York
Even if you’ve been to fashion marketplace events like MAGIC/PROJECT countless times, it’s still exciting and energizing to get a sneak peek at the new collections from more than 300 fashion brands...
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AI, Chatbots and AR: Retail’s Shiny New Objects
Artificial Intelligence, chatbots and augmented reality have all been introduced to the retail industry as solutions that provide enhanced services, personalization and experiences for customers while...
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Handbag Culture Clash? How Different Are Kate Spade and Coach Customers?
Tree Vongvitavat / Shutterstock.comShutterstock.com2016 was a near-record year for consumer and retail M&A activity, with 58 megadeals valued at more than $1 billion—a consolidation trend that is...
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What Michael Kors, Neiman Marcus and Tiffany & Co. Can Learn from Dubai...
Retail, leisure, hospitality and entertainment typically stand on their own in the tourism industry, but in the Middle East, the idea of a combined destination for all has really taken off. For retail...
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Gucci and Hermès Capture Loyalty from the Jet-Set Crowd at Airports
Source: Shutterstock.comThink of the millions of people who fly around the world every day. Once they have made it through security and settled into the lounge near their gate, they often have quite a...
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How Retailers Can Avoid The Markdown Death Spiral
More and more, we’ve seen retailers falling into the trap of using markdowns and discounts as a pricing strategy. This strategy was on full display over the 2016 holiday season. “Median discounts...
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Amazon and Alibaba Rock the Brick and Mortar Boat
Credit: Jonathan Weiss / Shutterstock.com“The most important opportunity on the horizon is not growing online sales in isolation but rather helping traditional retailers upgrade into a brand new retail...
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