Dear Readers, how can your business survive when your industry is experiencing an abrupt shift in consumer preferences? Can your business effectively navigate trade policies without seeing its profits plummet? Should you even care about world events such as what’s fueling riots in Hong Kong or the impeachment proceedings that have rattled the swamp better known as […]
retail industry
SIX MONTHS TO 2020 – THE RETAIL INDUSTRY EDIT
Now that the second quarter is behind us, Dear Retailers, how are your forecasts holding up since the U.S. economic growth slowed to an annual rate of 2.1 percent? Are tariffs eating into your margins more than anticipated yet? What other vexing contextual themes are you wrestling with as we moved into the second half of 2019? What […]