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Here Are 35 Casualties Of The Retail Apocalypse And Why They Failed

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Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then. Additionally, many of these physical retailers have lost the cache they once had as new direct-to-consumer brands with a hyper-focus on specific products have taken off. RadioShack.

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

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Brown gives his employees $100 to go open accounts across the Philadelphia area and then shares the results: good, bad and humorous. And Partners CEO John Janclaes helped put Kony on the market map in mid-size shops, even keynoting Kony’s conference with a leadership book in tow. Overpriced Unicorn (a.k.a. Be their Yoda.”.

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Whole Foods’ Big Top-Down Changes

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Consumers responded to the deals — and although Whole Foods has consistently maintained that their brand of organic and artisinal is better, the quarterly results over the last few quarters indicated that consumers are less than convinced. Whole Foods notched a 2.6

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17 Of The Biggest Startup Frauds Of All Time

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The Honest Company’s branding and promotional materials claimed that the firm’s goods were free of synthetic chemicals. In January 2018, Outcome settled all pending lawsuits by the company’s investors on the condition that Shah and Agarwal step down from their leadership positions. The Outcome. Total Funding: $263M.

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