Specialty Retail Blog » Ryan http://www.specialty-retail-blog.com/blog A blog on retail issues, by retail consultants Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:36:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Retail Design Diva on People and Companies Reinventing Themselves in the Face of Crisis http://www.specialty-retail-blog.com/blog/2009/11/20/retail-design-diva-on-people-and-companies-reinventing-themselves-in-the-face-of-crisis/ http://www.specialty-retail-blog.com/blog/2009/11/20/retail-design-diva-on-people-and-companies-reinventing-themselves-in-the-face-of-crisis/#comments Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:06:34 +0000 Ryan http://www.specialty-retail-blog.com/blog/2009/11/20/retail-design-diva-on-people-and-companies-reinventing-themselves-in-the-face-of-crisis/ Thanks again to Neal Esserman for sharing this blog posting from Retail Design Diva called “A Recession is a Terrible Thing to Waste.”

It discusses how the current crisis has forced many companies and people to reinvent themselves positively, and in ways that they simply would not have had the courage to if their current groove had remained rosy and adequate.

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The result is that the businesses ideally positioned to take advantage of the current glut in vacant store space are those which require little capital investment in a space and don’t necessarily need to be in the space for a long period of time.

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