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What luxury retailers need to know to succeed in the year ahead

Inside Retail

With travel curtailed, home-bound, experience-starved consumers flocked to luxury shopping to lift their spirits and spend some of their discretionary funds accruing thanks to Covid-19 government assistance, stimulus checks, tax relief, suspended student debt payments and the pandemic-induced restrictions. What a difference a year makes.

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The Future of Retail in the New Era of Risk

Retail Prophet

While cotton could indeed be sourced elsewhere, the US had several distinct market advantages. If anything, it was the use of slave labor that made it simply impossible to compete with the United States with on the global cotton market. Thus preventing the US from ever again recapturing such outsized share of the global cotton market.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 274 – Warby Parker and AllBirds file S-1 prospectus for IPOs

Retail Geek

Net positive ebit has but they basically have had a net loss every year except 2019 when they broke even. 8:26] You know you like if you look at 2018 you said hey they sold 270 million and they lost 22 million on it in 2019 they sold 370 million and they broke even. So what’s a little worrisome about that is. [8:26]

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 288 – News and Q4 Earnings Report’s

Retail Geek

It wouldn’t have felt any different than e-tail 2019 felt to me so I think people were like frankly pretty excited about getting back together. your Share account so when your chair count goes up it puts a natural pressure downward pressure on your EPS number. [5:44] all this this side of digital marketplaces.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 309 Instacart IPO Filing

Retail Geek

So it’s been a very dry IPO market for startups and thus of interior backed investors. 10:38] Sequoia and a couple others this is very unusual but I think it’s an interesting play because it basically says to the market. Gone so well they’re down like 95% bird the scooter company did this as well.