Old Navy is coming off a tough second quarter during which its same-store sales fell more than five percent, but that doesn’t mean the value-priced clothing chain is losing confidence after its official spinoff from Gap Inc. Do you find Old Navy’s aggressive growth plans following its spinoff from Gap more encouraging or worrying?
In an interview with Bloomberg, At Home chairman and CEO Lee Bird said that a precipitous drop in At Home’s stock price in June led him to reconsider the company’s business, like slowing the opening of new stores. Another was that the chain needed to sell online. Should At Home sell furniture online?
Amazon had planned to open 56 Go locations by the end of 2019 and 156 by the end of 2020, according to a report discussed on The Verge. Amazon has in fact opened only 15 Go stores, all located in major metropolitan areas. To what factor or factors do you attribute the slower-than-expected expansion of Amazon Go?
While a report found that 46 percent of the more than 1,500 U.S. adult consumers surveyed use online accounts for all or most of their purchases, some factors are making the rest hesitate. What do you see as the biggest factors preventing consumers from creating user accounts with retailers?
Walmart announced today that it is expanding its grocery delivery subscription program, Delivery Unlimited, to 1,400 stores across the country. What will Delivery Unlimited mean for Walmart’s grocery business?
Marc Lore, who leads Walmart’s e-commerce operations in the U.S., says the retailer is turning away from looking for acquisitions and turning its attention to developing its own digitally native brands. Do you agree that Walmart is better off creating its own consumer direct brands than acquiring them?
Amazon.com and Home Depot are looking to up their delivery games, and a new three-story warehouse in Seattle may hold the key to their future plans. Do you expect multistory warehouses in suburban and urban locations to become commonplace over the next decade?
The reason to “improve analytics maturity” is because it’s a fundamental part of any successful digital transformation. How should retailers and brands be looking to modernize their analytic infrastructure to reach higher levels of analytical maturity?
As retailers try to woo customers with next-level convenience, they have begun introducing offerings that might have appeared to compromise their competitive edge in an earlier era. Will the traffic generated by offering returns for other retailers at Nordstrom Local concepts in Manhattan be valuable enough to make it worthwhile?
Target announced yesterday that it would roll out its new Target Circle rewards program nationwide following an 18-month test that produced “overwhelmingly positive” results. How do you think the launch of Target Circle will affect the retailer’s business going into the Christmas holiday and beyond?
