The Buckle ended its February 3rd fiscal year with 457 retail stores and expects to end the current year with the same number. These days, that may be exactly the right decision; the days of open more stores, automatically earn more money, are gone. So what’s the strategy? Over three years, revenues have fallen from […]
My research department has been coming up with interesting reads I haven’t had time to pass on. Here are three worth a few minutes of your time. “5 Ways the Future of Retail is Already Here” shouldn’t surprise anybody who’s been paying attention. But it’s interesting to see these five retail evolutions listed together and
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This isn’t the kind of thing I usually choose to write about. After some thought, I wanted to express how sad I was to hear about the recent passing of SPY CEO Seth Hamot. For years before I met Seth, I gave him a hard time. As a public company, SPY was a valuable source
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