THE BLOG

We’re saying it again: malls aren’t dead.

Are the cold, sterile malls populated by mindless franchises and untrained, unhappy employees...

For my 28th birthday, all the dreams of my 11th birthday came true: I finally received my acceptance letter to Hogwarts.

On a humid June day, we...

In 1910, Florence Nightingale Graham—though you might know her better as Elizabeth Arden—opened her first Red Door beauty salon on 5th...

Doughnuts inspire a lot of reactions: delight, salivation, swooning, palate glee and diet abandonment. At Hole Doughnuts in West Asheville,...

One scene, two ways.

A customer walks into an upscale mall, red-bottomed heels clacking against polished marble, and traipses into a Prada store....

We’re spreading ourselves thin, a face that’s definitive of our lifestyles these days. We want to multitask constantly, we juggle jobs...

We’re in the business of making businesses—particularly retailers—better. And we have to say, business is booming; the majority...

As a leader in specialty retail, you’re asked questions constantly: what are today’s sales numbers, who called out sick, when does that...

Retail is inherently a partnership between retailer and manufacturer. Specialty retailers are, in the simplest of terms, liaisons between...

Retailers have a bad habit of avoiding what makes them uncomfortable. Top of that list? Email acquisition.

Chances are your sales staff are...

We live in a break-neck, fast-paced world. It used to take weeks, days, or at least hours to get responses to written correspondence; now it takes...

Price is an important variable in every shopper’s decision—but how important varies from product to product, category to category, and...