Topic
Retail
The world of stores, shelf space, buyers, margins, and the fight to get products in front of shoppers.
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Kip Tindell says The Container Store hasn't done well since he retired
The Container Store co-founder blames a painful post-retirement slide on new owners, Amazon, and a retail world that forgot how much good salespeople matter.
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Daymond John says big-box retail puts more small brands out of business than it puts in business
The FUBU founder told a Chicago salsa company that the dream of getting on big-store shelves can become a margin-crushing trap.
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Joey Shamah says a fake Bloomingdale's buyout rumor sent e.l.f. from 300 orders a week to 18,000 a day
The e.l.f. co-founder says the strangest growth hack in the brand's history was not a hack at all, just a chain email, a price panic, and a logistics nightmare.