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The Backroom with Retail Dive: Page 2
What you read on Retail Dive is only part of the story. Our reporters and editors are constantly researching, reading and talking about the retail industry. Here’s a peek behind the curtain to what we are discussing in our newsroom. Welcome to the Backroom. Stay tuned for more episodes by following us on iTunes or on Stitcher.
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The Backroom: Just how competitive are retail markets?
A talk with author and antitrust expert Sally Hubbard about what shifts in competition policy and enforcement could mean for the retail industry writ large.
By Ben Unglesbee • April 29, 2021 -
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The Backroom: How a $15 minimum wage could impact retail
At the federal level, the minimum wage hasn't changed since 2009 at $7.25 an hour. The team discusses what an increase could mean for the industry.
By Ben Unglesbee • March 25, 2021 -
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The Backroom: Amazon enters a new phase
The team talks about how retailers have paved their own way, as Jeff Bezos prepares to hand over the CEO reins at the e-commerce giant.
By Daphne Howland • Feb. 25, 2021 -
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The Backroom: Family Video, GameStop and the precarious lives of media stores
The team breaks down what went wrong for the last video chain as well as the fates of other retailers of cultural products.
By Ben Unglesbee • Jan. 28, 2021 -
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The Backroom: What the pandemic means for the future of retail
A follow-up discussion with "retail prophet" Doug Stephens, who has been mulling the disease outbreak's implications for the industry.
By Daphne Howland • Jan. 14, 2021 -
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The Backroom: What Black Friday tells us about retail in 2021
The shopping holiday was defined by the COVID-19 pandemic. Its trends and repercussions will likely follow the industry into the next year.
By Retail Dive Team • Dec. 17, 2020 -
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The Backroom: J.C. Penney's slow ride through bankruptcy
The department store's deal to sell itself to landlords Simon and Brookfield is in its final stages. But the retailer's struggles are far from over.
By Retail Dive Team • Nov. 19, 2020 -
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The Backroom: How retailers are navigating holiday 2020
As the season kick-starts earlier than ever, the industry braces for a fourth quarter plagued by uncertainty.
By Retail Dive Staff • Oct. 29, 2020 -
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The Backroom: Walmart+ vs. Amazon Prime
Why did the retail giant launch a membership service, and can it compete with Prime? Senior Reporters Daphne Howland and Ben Unglesbee break it down.
By Caroline Jansen • Sept. 24, 2020 -
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The Backroom: When malls buy their tenants
Mall owners are snapping up distressed retailers as years of operational pressures and a pandemic combine to take down anchors and their neighbors.
By Retail Dive Team • Aug. 27, 2020 -
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The Backroom: When retailers issue mask requirements
Without federal face mask guidelines, retailers like Walmart, Target and Best Buy have had to introduce their own measures.
By Caroline Jansen • July 30, 2020 -
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The Backroom: Tracking retail sales numbers in a pandemic
In this episode, the team discusses how Retail Dive reports monthly sales numbers and what those figures signal about the industry's future.
By Caroline Jansen • June 25, 2020 -
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The Backroom: How the coronavirus sped up retail bankruptcies
On this episode of the podcast, senior reporters Daphne Howland and Ben Unglesbee discuss how the pandemic pushed distressed retailers to file.
By Caroline Jansen • May 28, 2020 -
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The Backroom: Retail responds to the coronavirus
On this episode, the team spoke with guest Jeff Wells of Grocery Dive, to discuss how the pandemic is changing all sectors of the industry.
By Caroline Jansen • April 30, 2020 -
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The Backroom: Pier 1's road to bankruptcy
Senior Reporter Ben Unglesbee and Associate Editor Caroline Jansen discuss what the company's future may look like.
By Caroline Jansen • Feb. 27, 2020 -
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The Backroom: Trends to watch in 2020
On this episode of the podcast, the team breaks down everything that happened at the NRF's Big Show in New York, and what to watch this year.
By Liza Casabona • Jan. 23, 2020 -
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The Backroom: 2019 in review
From Party City's helium shortage to Patrick Byrne's abrupt departure from Overstock, the team discusses all of their favorite stories from the year.
By Retail Dive Team • Dec. 19, 2019 -
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The Backroom: The last Blockbuster
On this episode of The Backroom with Retail Dive, Reporter Ben Unglesbee and Editor Cara Salpini discuss what the video store's demise means for retail.
By Ben Unglesbee • Nov. 21, 2019 -
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The Backroom: The looming threat of retail bankruptcies
On this episode of The Backroom with Retail Dive, reporters Ben Unglesbee and Daphne Howland discuss how 28 retailers could soon go bankrupt.
By Kaarin Vembar • Oct. 24, 2019 -
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The Backroom: Riding the tariff rollercoaster
On this episode of The Backroom with Retail Dive, our team talks with Supply Chain Dive Senior Editor Shefali Kapadia about "tariff whiplash."
By Liza Casabona • Sept. 26, 2019 -
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The Backroom: What happened with Nordstrom's Anniversary Sale?
Last month, the retailer's annual event encountered some hiccups. On this episode of The Backroom with Retail Dive, our team talks about how it unfolded.
By Liza Casabona • Aug. 29, 2019 -
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Conversational Commerce: Bonobos CEO shares the secret to building a connected workforce
The digitally native men's clothing brand is known for a tight-knit network that keeps colleagues connected, even when they start their own businesses.
By Corinne Ruff • June 20, 2019 -
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Conversational Commerce: Inside the rise of clicks to bricks at Indochino
From the store level to the C-suite perspective, hear how the digitally native brand polished a tech-infused approach to showrooms.
By Corinne Ruff • May 20, 2019 -
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Conversational Commerce: How one digitally native brand baked sustainability into its DNA
An environmental focus doesn't have to come at the cost of profitability, says Grove Collaborative CEO Stu Landesberg.
By Corinne Ruff • April 22, 2019 -
Kendall Davis/Retail Dive
Conversational Commerce: Here's what retailers are talking shop about in 2019
Here's our take on everything you need to know about Shoptalk and how those conversations will shape the rest of the year.
By Corinne Ruff • March 11, 2019
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