ROBIN REPORT Retail in 2025: Tariffs, Tumult, and the Search for Sanity

2025 may go down as the year retail lost the plot — and tried to rewrite it at the same time. At a recent Robin Report roundtable, four veteran retail experts — Mark Cohen, Warren Shoulberg, Phil Lempert, and Jasmine Glasheen — unpacked a year shaped by political chaos, economic contradiction, and rapidly shifting consumer behavior. Editor Deborah Patton moderated the session, which revealed a retail industry both remarkably resilient and increasingly fragile.

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