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Oct 25, 2018

Kaisu Pienimäki and Tero Lehtonen give James Cook a crash course in Finnish retail. They visit the flagship Stockmann department store in the midst of “crazy days” (Hullut Päivät), a mega sale akin to Black Friday in the U.S. They talk about retailers that have opened and closed in Finland, the businesses that...


Oct 18, 2018

Online retailers are opening at least 850 bricks-and-mortar stores within the next five years. James Cook talks with Taylor Coyne about the details of a new study that tracks this expansion.  They visit a Parachute Home store in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, the bath and bedding digital retailer's fourth...