Department stores are the hot new thing”—said no one in the last 20 years. Yet despite decades of closure headlines, plenty of these stores are still ringing up sales.

If retailers want their multichannel strategy to work, the mall supply chain cannot remain reactive. It has to become deliberate.

Local and regional retailers must find ways to match the speed, personalization and seamlessness of their big-brand competitors in order to attract shoppers ...

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