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The Backroom with Retail Dive — 107 episodes

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Consumer resilience in trying times

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Walmart and Target are not the same

3

Saks Global and the bankruptcy that everyone saw coming

4

Contemplating retail in 2026 with Doug Stephens

5

Tariffs tee up unique holiday season for retail

6

Halloween casts a spell over retail

7

How the holidays are different this year

8

Bankruptcy court is in session

9

What’s next for Target?

10

Saks Global, Amazon and the state of luxury

11

Breaking down Dick's Sporting Goods deal to acquire Foot Locker

12

Talking tariffs with Supply Chain Dive

13

Talking wholesale with Liza Amlani

14

Foes of a Minimum Wage Guard

15

A new retail apocalypse?

16

Doug Stephens looks to 2025 and beyond

17

Amazon Haul and the state of retail: Checking in with Rick Watson

18

Retailers creepin' it real

19

The state of the art of couponing

20

Under Armour’s past — and future — under Kevin Plank

21

All of a sudden, a lot is happening at department stores

22

What’s going on with Amazon Fashion?

23

Lee Peterson and the hard truth about retail stores

24

What’s happening at Macy’s

25

Why it’s so hard for retailers to do the right thing

26

The story behind our stories on shrink and theft

27

What’s in store for DTC in 2024?

28

Doug Stephens’ retail predictions for 2024

29

What’s the deal with EBITDA?

30

How the 2023 holiday season is shaping up

31

Marisa Meltzer and the creation of Glossier

32

A look back on the first half of 2023 for DTC brands

33

Jason Del Rey and ‘Winner Sells All’

34

Target’s silent Pride Month

35

How the consumer is doing so far this year

36

Why is Walmart selling off so many DTC brands?

37

The Backroom: Unearthing financial details about J.C. Penney

38

What the ‘MetaBirkin’ NFT verdict means for art and commerce

39

What's Going On With DTC This Year?

40

Ushering in the new year with Doug Stephens

41

What holiday looks like from here

42

Retail bankruptcies are poised for a comeback

43

The Idiosyncrasies Of This Year’s Holiday Consumer

44

The remains of Sears

45

Planet Retail

46

Bankrupt Enjoy Technology Set Out To Disrupt Retail. But It Got Disrupted Instead.

47

What Walmart And Target Told Us About Retail In 2022

48

What's Going On With Amazon?

49

The World According To AlixPartners' Joel Bines

50

Kohl's versus Wall Street

51

The Surprising Importance Of The Retail Middleman, With BMO Capital Markets’ Simeon Siegel

52

Our traditional interview with the retail prophet, Doug Stephens

53

Another Disruptive Holiday Season

54

Why is the idea of splitting off e-commerce so popular all of a sudden?

55

What do changes at Stitch Fix say about e-commerce?

56

Delta's looming impact on retail

57

When Reebok was on top of the world

58

Reebok was meant to be a 'Nike killer.' How the brand lost its No. 1 spot

59

In e-commerce, it's growth versus profits

60

A former Blockbuster insider chronicles its many blunders

61

Just how competitive are retail markets?

62

How a $15 minimum wage could impact retail

63

Amazon enters a new phase

64

Family Video, GameStop and the precarious lives of media stores

65

BONUS: What the pandemic means for the future of retail

66

What Black Friday tells us about retail in 2021

67

J.C. Penney's slow ride through bankruptcy

68

How retailers are navigating holiday 2020

69

Walmart+ vs. Amazon Prime

70

Malls buy their tenants

71

When retailers issue mask requirements

72

Tracking retail sales numbers in a pandemic

73

How the coronavirus sped up retail bankruptcies

74

Retail responds to the coronavirus

75

Pier 1's road to bankruptcy

76

Trends to watch in 2020

77

2019 in review

78

The last Blockbuster

79

The looming threat of retail bankruptcies

80

Riding the tariff rollercoaster

81

What happened with Nordstrom's Anniversary Sale?

82

Bonobos CEO shares the secret to building a connected workforce

83

Inside the rise of clicks to bricks at Indochino

84

How one digitally native brand baked sustainability into its DNA

85

Here's what retailers are talking shop about in 2019

86

Why everyone is talking about women in retail

87

5 trends to watch in 2019

88

BONUS: 8 predictions that will shape 2019

89

10 bold predictions from 2018 revisited

90

How one apparel startup aims to spark a size revolution

91

Why stores are key to Walmart's online grocery plan

92

Inside the mindset of the next wave of digitally native brands

93

Nike, women and retail's big corporate culture problem

94

Amazon Prime Day cues up the holidays

95

How good retail jobs boost business

96

As Amazon expands, how should brands react?

97

At Lowe's, digital development isn't all about that tech

98

How a fashion tech startup is tackling some of retail's big problems

99

When is the store experience finally going to improve?

100

5 trends to watch in 2018

101

10 bold retail predictions for 2018

102

What Black Friday and Cyber Monday signal for holiday 2017

103

Black Friday predictions: Moody's Charlie O'Shea on what to watch in 2017

104

Our holiday forecast: 3 trends to watch this shopping season

105

How NRF's Matthew Shay envisions the future of retail

106

Why Toys R Us went bankrupt — and what it means for the holidays

107

The year of retail bankruptcies