By Garrick Brown, Vice President of Retail Research, Americas
Historically, September has been one of the critical months for retailers in terms of building their inventories for the holiday shopping season. While many chains would begin building their holiday inventories
By Garrick Brown, Vice President of Retail Research, Americas
Closure season rumbles on and so we heard more bad news this past week. Sports Authority filed for bankruptcy and will be closing roughly 140 of their 463 stores and
By Garrick Brown, Vice President, Research – West Region
Before I get going this week, Gray UmbrellasI want to point all of you to a compelling work that was released by Jim Tompkins of Tompkins International last week; Respond
By Garrick Brown, Vice President of Research – West Region
The top story of same store sales likely coming in at higher levels than expected appears to have been the case… at least depending on the analysts. Click here to see Thomsen
Written by By Garrick Brown, Vice President of Research – West Region
It was a big news week last week and I am going to try to tackle a few of the bigger stories… but don’t just get lost in my commentary.