Clever messaging from CEO David Sobie and team | Happy Returns
Retail

With “Return Bars” and “Returnistas”, Happy Returns is eliminating the hassle of returning online orders by mail.

Happy Returns is a new upstart that’s addressing a new need in today’s e-commerce driven world: Rather than doing returns by mail, customers are able to drop off their online returns at a Happy Bar, and Happy Returns handles the rest.

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The new Argent store taking over Kit and Ace's former location in DC | Popville
Retail

Report: Landlords, burned by Kit and Ace, turn to small luxury brands to fill short term leases.

Lean Luxe has learned that landlords, while they search for long term tenants, are warming up to short term leases with smaller modern luxury brands who’ve been scrappy enough to pitch them on these spaces.

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From left to right: Brûlé, Fehnert, Harris, McNally, and Haouache debate. | Lean Luxe
Retail

‘The Future of Retail’: Highlights from the best panel at last month’s Monocle conference in Berlin.

In Berlin, Storefront’s Mohamed Haouache, Perfumer H’s Lyn Harris, and Sarah McNally of McNally Jackson brought the house down in a cracking, back-and-forth debate on what the future holds for high-end retail.

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