Category Archives: Retail Holiday Season

Private Label Fashion Out of Style

While private label packaged goods are steadily stealing market share from CPG’s, private label fashions are losing momentum. Stores like JC Penny and Macy’s are scaling back their private label fashion lines in favor of more well known brands. The proliferation of sales and markdowns offered by retailers during the fall and holiday season, have [...]

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Analysts Predict Retail Armageddon

The end of retail as we know it. 
Reports declare this the worst retail holiday season in nearly 30 years. An article in the Chicago Sun-Times quoted analysts as saying that “retail names will be wiped off the map and thousands of stores will close in the new year.” Ominous. But what does it mean? If we [...]

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Holiday Message from Miller Zell

The holidays are the most important time of the year in retail. Between full steam operations for the season and back office planning for next year we are all extremely busy.
So here’s a little holiday message from Miller Zell to make you laugh and remind you that in a few weeks, the cycle will begin again.  [...]

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Desperate Retailers Cut Into Their Own Margins

The New York Times this morning reported on the weekend’s sales results from every possible statistical angle. It was a tale of two economies, the overall economy holding and the retail economy holding on for dear life.
A quick highlight of the weekend stats:

Shoppers spent 7 percent more this year than last
Sales increased 3 percent compared with [...]

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