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The Backroom with Retail Dive — 110 episodes

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The weight-loss era is not just about selling clothes

2

What’s really happening at Lululemon?

3

Redefining Pacsun

4

Consumer resilience in trying times

5

Walmart and Target are not the same

6

Saks Global and the bankruptcy that everyone saw coming

7

Contemplating retail in 2026 with Doug Stephens

8

Tariffs tee up unique holiday season for retail

9

Halloween casts a spell over retail

10

How the holidays are different this year

11

Bankruptcy court is in session

12

What’s next for Target?

13

Saks Global, Amazon and the state of luxury

14

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

15

Talking tariffs with Supply Chain Dive

16

Talking wholesale with Liza Amlani

17

Foes of a Minimum Wage Guard

18

A new retail apocalypse?

19

Doug Stephens looks to 2025 and beyond

20

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

21

Retailers creepin' it real

22

The state of the art of couponing

23

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

24

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

25

What’s going on with Amazon Fashion?

26

Lee Peterson and the hard truth about retail stores

27

What’s happening at Macy’s

28

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

29

The story behind our stories on shrink and theft

30

What’s in store for DTC in 2024?

31

Doug Stephens’ retail predictions for 2024

32

What’s the deal with EBITDA?

33

How the 2023 holiday season is shaping up

34

Marisa Meltzer and the creation of Glossier

35

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

36

Jason Del Rey and ‘Winner Sells All’

37

Target’s silent Pride Month

38

How the consumer is doing so far this year

39

Why is Walmart selling off so many DTC brands?

40

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

41

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

42

What's Going On With DTC This Year?

43

Ushering in the new year with Doug Stephens

44

What holiday looks like from here

45

Retail bankruptcies are poised for a comeback

46

The Idiosyncrasies Of This Year’s Holiday Consumer

47

The remains of Sears

48

Planet Retail

49

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

50

What Walmart And Target Told Us About Retail In 2022

51

What's Going On With Amazon?

52

The World According To AlixPartners' Joel Bines

53

Kohl's versus Wall Street

54

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

55

Our traditional interview with the retail prophet, Doug Stephens

56

Another Disruptive Holiday Season

57

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

58

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

59

Delta's looming impact on retail

60

When Reebok was on top of the world

61

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

62

In e-commerce, it's growth versus profits

63

A former Blockbuster insider chronicles its many blunders

64

Just how competitive are retail markets?

65

How a $15 minimum wage could impact retail

66

Amazon enters a new phase

67

Family Video, GameStop and the precarious lives of media stores

68

BONUS: What the pandemic means for the future of retail

69

What Black Friday tells us about retail in 2021

70

J.C. Penney's slow ride through bankruptcy

71

How retailers are navigating holiday 2020

72

Walmart+ vs. Amazon Prime

73

Malls buy their tenants

74

When retailers issue mask requirements

75

Tracking retail sales numbers in a pandemic

76

How the coronavirus sped up retail bankruptcies

77

Retail responds to the coronavirus

78

Pier 1's road to bankruptcy

79

Trends to watch in 2020

80

2019 in review

81

The last Blockbuster

82

The looming threat of retail bankruptcies

83

Riding the tariff rollercoaster

84

What happened with Nordstrom's Anniversary Sale?

85

Bonobos CEO shares the secret to building a connected workforce

86

Inside the rise of clicks to bricks at Indochino

87

How one digitally native brand baked sustainability into its DNA

88

Here's what retailers are talking shop about in 2019

89

Why everyone is talking about women in retail

90

5 trends to watch in 2019

91

BONUS: 8 predictions that will shape 2019

92

10 bold predictions from 2018 revisited

93

How one apparel startup aims to spark a size revolution

94

Why stores are key to Walmart's online grocery plan

95

Inside the mindset of the next wave of digitally native brands

96

Nike, women and retail's big corporate culture problem

97

Amazon Prime Day cues up the holidays

98

How good retail jobs boost business

99

As Amazon expands, how should brands react?

100

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

101

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

102

When is the store experience finally going to improve?

103

5 trends to watch in 2018

104

10 bold retail predictions for 2018

105

What Black Friday and Cyber Monday signal for holiday 2017

106

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

107

Our holiday forecast: 3 trends to watch this shopping season

108

How NRF's Matthew Shay envisions the future of retail

109

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

110

The year of retail bankruptcies