Store Spotlight: Laline at Toronto Eaton Centre

Over the weekend, I took to the snow covered streets of Toronto and made my way to the Eaton Centre. My intention was to review Saks but I was pleasantly surprised to find myself in Laline for the first time. I wanted to shine the spotlight on this store because the experience was excellent. Windows […]

Isn’t That Convenient

Convenience stores have drastically changed since my childhood where a 7-11 was on the same block as my apartment building. No longer are these simply a stop for scratch tickets, a Slurpee and a selection of overly-processed snacks. The thing to consider is how c-store merchandising approaches have evolved and will continue to do so. […]

They Don’t Have To

The WSJ published an article titled: Amazon, King of Online Retail, Can’t Seem To Make Its Physical Stores Work Well, guess what? They don’t have to. One comment in the article said that Amazon didn’t know retail because they were closing stores. This couldn’t be further from reality. Amazon knows their customers and meets them […]

Store Visits in SoHo

Store Spotlight: Louis Vuitton x Murakami Pop-Up, SoHo NYC I visited the LV Pop-Up after NRF with my good friend Marco De Carli of DINN Design. We visited a few stores but the LV pop-up stood out as the perfect trifecta of experiential, product and customer-obsessed sales associates. The store was engaging, delightful and fun! […]

NRF 2025 Recap

Fun fact, I was on a beach in the south of Portugal when NRF rolled around in 2023. It was nice. It was calm. It was WARM! I attended in 2024 while living in NYC. But, the 2025 edition was a wild ride filled with keynotes, networking dinners, podcasts and so much more. You don’t […]

The Whole Sale. On Sale.

We are pleased to announce that The Whole Sale — Profitable Wholesale Strategies for Brands is now available for sale. You can purchase a PDF copy directly from our website: www.retailstrategygroup.com/downloads/the-whole-sale Or, you can grab a Kindle version over at Amazon. On sale for $12.99 (USD) The paperback edition is in the works and will be released in the […]

Book Preview: The Whole Sale

Here is an excerpt from our upcoming ebook: The Whole Sale – Profitable Wholesale Strategies for Brands You might wonder what holiday movies have to do with brand-retailer relationships. Well, consider this from The New York Times: “Amazon Studios spent $250 million to make “Red One,” a comedic holiday action film starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris […]

Too Clever By Half.

In 1836, Rowland Hill innovated the delivery of letters in Great Britain. You might wonder how. Hill upended the concept of how to pay for postage. At the time, mail was paid for by the recipient. The cost was determined by using distance and weight. Instead, Hill proposed that postage should be uniform in the […]

More Stuff To Think About

Scott Galloway said earlier this year that “The problem with predictions is that they’re a terrible business.” And, business is booming. This is the time of year where predictions get thrown around left, right and center. But, we’re not in the business of prognostication. Like last week, I’m sharing the ideas that I scribbled on […]

Stuff To Think About

It’s that time of year where predictions for 2025 will be thrown around. Now, I’m not certified in prognostication or claim to be a retail soothsayer. However, there are some things that are worth thinking about as we close out this year and move into the next. As such, I scribbled down 10 ideas on […]