Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Gap, J. Crew, Hudson’s Bay And The Unrelenting Collapse Of The Middle In Retail

Fortune
With few exceptions, retailers that execute well at either end of the value spectrum are doing pretty well. Those that are weak on price and convenience or, alternatively, fail to deliver a memorable more premium, differentiated product and shopping experience increasingly find themselves in an unsustainable no man’s land.

Recent earnings reports from Gap, J. Crew and Hudson Bay continue to reinforce the idea that physical retail isn’t dead, but boring retail is.. . . more