Marketing
Why Carmine’s is promoting pizza bagels to sell more sauce
The effort launched with a pizza-bagel menu at Tompkins Square Bagels.
Andrew Adam Newman
Andrew is a senior reporter for Retail Brew. He’s been a frequent contributor to The New York Times and had stints as senior editor for Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen and as editor in chief of alternative newsweeklies in Pittsburgh and Boise.
E-Commerce
More tweens have purchased items from games than from brands’ websites
It’s the first generation where “the virtual storefront came first,” says YPulse report.
Stores
Why a porta-potty is a permanent fixture in this workwear brand’s flagship
With cinder blocks and unfinished plywood, Brunt’s showroom evokes a jobsite.
Marketing
Why Barrière thinks skin patches are the future of kids’ wellness
With a Target partnership, it hopes to do for vitamin patches what Flintstones did for chewables.
E-Commerce
Up to 96% of some brands’ items fail authentication checks
Authentication firm Entrupy flags Fear of God Essentials and BAPE among highest-risk brands for fakes.
E-Commerce
It pioneered the outdoor dog gear category, but will fans pay for Ruffwear’s pricey new line?
With “groundbreaking” materials including magnetic closures, a harness costs $180.
E-Commerce
Why short-shorts brand Chubbies just launched a resale site
Co-founder Rainer Castillo on mocking cargo shorts for 15 years, and why fans really will buy used swim trunks.
Stores
The state of stores
Even in the age of AI, retailers continue to bet big on brick and mortar.
E-Commerce
How AI is reshaping resale
At the ReCon resale conference, executives predicted the technology will fuel the sector’s growth.
E-Commerce
More than 8 in 10 shop resale to discover new brands
And 58% then buy new items from the brand, per McKinsey data and ReCon.