The Robin Report

The Robin Report offers valuable insights and perspectives on important subjects within the retail apparel and consumer product sectors. It provides thought-provoking and impartial analysis on various aspects of retail, brands, and consumer goods, while addressing broader industry challenges, trends, and consumer habits. You can find all of this content exclusively at TheRobinReport.com. Furthermore, The RR also hosts executive briefings and organizes industry events.

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Walmart Resets Its Future

1 week ago | therobinreport.com | Warren Shoulberg

This is not your grandma’s Walmart anymore. Hell, it’s not even your Walmart anymore these days. With an unprecedented number of initiatives on its plate today, the world’s biggest retailer — almost twice as large as its closest competitor — is both playing catch-up and pull-out-ahead in the retail world. If you legitimately ask what took them so long, they will answer, “Yeah, we know. But retail has to stop living in the past.
Tariff Shockwaves - The Robin Report

2 weeks ago | therobinreport.com | Sarah Holbrook

When President Trump stood next to his super-sized tariffs chart on April 2nd, he looked wholly satisfied as he actualized his very own shock and awe moment. The world was expecting tariffs, but not a worldwide economic cataclysm. Now, the globe is in the throes of motion sickness as the tariff yo-yo continues to wind and unwind, following an all too predictable pattern. The time to start drawing the roadmap for the coming 24 months and beyond is now.
Brian Cornell: The Sequel?

3 weeks ago | therobinreport.com | Warren Shoulberg

First things first: Brian Cornell has been an incredible CEO at Target for most of his time leading the retail chain since he joined in 2014. People forget how lost Target was a decade ago and what Cornell did to rebuild the company and turn it into perhaps the best retailer in America for much of his stint. But that was then…and this is now.
Gen Z's Nostalgic Trend Has No Chill for Fakes

1 month ago | therobinreport.com | Mark Faithfull

Gen Z is many things, and topping the list right now is sentimental purchasing power. The trend reflects a longing for simpler, slower times when things seemed safer and more secure. Gen Z demands authenticity and uniqueness and although they may be deeply immersed in the digital world, wearing vintage outfits, listening to old-school music and even resurrecting classic technology tap into their self-expression.
Printemps New York High Concept: Will It Work?

1 month ago | therobinreport.com | Marie Driscoll

Now that the launch dust has settled, we’re taking a look at Printemps New York and its entrance into the U.S. with a luxe retail concept built around hospitality, aspiration and imagination. Retailers and vendors alike have invoked Chicken Little’s mantra, “The sky is falling” for the last dozen or so years as technology’s disruption has rendered retail models flawed, archaic and irrelevant. Online has captured a growing wallet share and store traffic has declined.
Family-Owned Boscov’s, Von Maur Are Sleeper Success Stories

1 month ago | therobinreport.com | Warren Shoulberg

This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. “It’s not exactly a big fat secret that department stores are becoming an endangered species. Once king of the retail world, their market share has been reduced to at best 2 percent according to recent estimates.
Joann’s Bankruptcy: A Failure of Imagination

1 month ago | therobinreport.com | Sanford Stein

Joann Fabrics and Crafts has fueled the imaginations of its loyal customers for eight decades. Regrettably, now that it has become just another moribund brand it’s sad to think that Joann’s leadership simply lacked the insight and imagination to reshape the brand to compete and prosper in the “new world” of unified commerce. But that’s what happened, along with bankruptcy.
U.S. China Tariffs: All Fluctuated Up - The Robin Report

1 month ago | therobinreport.com | Warren Shoulberg

The latest news that China and the U.S. have agreed to a 90-day ceasefire — albeit with tariff rates still substantially higher than before all of this started — has thrown the retail industry into yet another stage of panic as they scramble to see if they can get merchandise into stores (and consumer hands) for the holiday season. And if they can do it at tariff-impacted prices that may still be unacceptable to an increasingly shell-shocked shopper.
Westfield’s Last of Its Kind

1 month ago | therobinreport.com | Mark Faithfull

Written off, consigned to the dustbin of time amid the clamor for all things new and digital, and a property asset class that almost no real estate investor wanted to touch, there’s just something about shopping centers that consumers won’t let go of. For URW, and mall developers as a whole, the age of ground-up development is probably all but over in Europe. Instead, the big deals over the past 12 months have seen IKEA’s property arm snap up centers in Brighton, Paris and Munich.
Understanding Generational Shopping Habits

1 month ago | therobinreport.com | Phil Lempert

If you don’t understand what your customers want, how can you serve them and stay competitive? We are living in an era with four generations in the workforce and as consumer forces in the marketplace. Make that five generational shopping habits if you add in the Alphas who are also shopping in retail stores. Retailers must remain informed about, agile and responsive to changing consumer preferences.