As an update to my October 4, 2016 blog 7 More Retailers on the Verge of Bankruptcy, today fashion icon retailer BCBG MAXAZRIA  announced it will is closing stores and shifting its focus to e-commerce and wholesaling through other retailers and licensing....

Note: This is an excerpt from a comprehensive paper by this author. 
 

PREFACE

Conducting a Google search on “Generational Diversity” generates 13,400,000 results. Unfortunately these results focus primarily on defining and refining the term generational diversity and do...

June 29, 2015 Blog Update. Traditional brick and mortar retailers that fail to transform their traditional business model are incurring more business failures. In 2015 U.S. retailers closed 5,229 stores. In 2016 retailers have already announced 3,378 more stores closin...

The 2007-09 U.S. mortgage scandal is considered by many economists to have been the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. So, what have we learned from that crisis? Perhaps not much. 

Financial institutions and public comp...

 The Future of Retail

It should come as no surprise to anyone that traditional brick and mortar retail chains are going the way of the dinosaur. As of June 1, 2015 eighty-six retailers have announced 8,478 store closings duringn the past six months. This only only seem...