Steve Dennis
@stevedennis.bsky.social
Strategic advisor on transformation and digital disruption. Keynote speaker. Award winning podcast host. Forbes senior retail contributor. Best-selling author of "Remarkable Retail" & "Leaders Leap." Bullshit dispelling enthusiast.
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JUST DROPPED: The annual predictions episode of The Remarkable Retail Podcast!!
This year I deliver a baker's dozen of (reasonably) educated guesses on the stories that will define 2026, featuring Target, Starbucks, Nike, Saks Global, SEPHORA, Amazon, and more!
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This year I deliver a baker's dozen of (reasonably) educated guesses on the stories that will define 2026, featuring Target, Starbucks, Nike, Saks Global, SEPHORA, Amazon, and more!
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Fellow RETHINK Retail Top Retail Experts Jack Stratten and Kevin Ervin Kelley join the pod to discuss the future of stores. Turns out physical retail is evolving, but not remotely close to dead. All this, plus we unpack the most important retail news of the week.
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Different Not Dead: Creating Irreplaceable Stores with Jack Stratten & Kevin Ervin Kelley, Plus Amazon Earnings, Walmart's Trillion $ Moment, and Luxury Bifurcation.
Podcast Episode · Remarkable Retail Podcast · 02/10/2026 · 56m
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February 15, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Fellow RETHINK Retail Top Retail Experts Jack Stratten and Kevin Ervin Kelley join the pod to discuss the future of stores. Turns out physical retail is evolving, but not remotely close to dead. All this, plus we unpack the most important retail news of the week.
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My latest "Pardon the Disruption" Substack newsletter takes on why incremental change is very unlikely to get you where you need to be in a world where you must aim higher, move faster, and act more boldly.
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Our Bold New Plan to Suck Less
The next shoe drops at Saks, the more you know (tariff edition), Bad Bunny leadership lessons, and, turns out, physical retail: still not dead.
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February 14, 2026 at 12:20 PM
My latest "Pardon the Disruption" Substack newsletter takes on why incremental change is very unlikely to get you where you need to be in a world where you must aim higher, move faster, and act more boldly.
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The billboard behind Bad Bunny during this halftime performance reads: "The only thing more powerful than hate is love." #SuperBowl
February 9, 2026 at 1:33 AM
The billboard behind Bad Bunny during this halftime performance reads: "The only thing more powerful than hate is love." #SuperBowl
My latest "Pardon the Disruption" weekly Substack takes on the dangerous nonsense of the "never give up" cult, PLUS my takes on the retail stories that mattered this week.
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Quitting Is Underrated
Plus the fault in Amazon's stores, meet the new boss, same as the old boss, and retail's persistent, undeniable reality.
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February 6, 2026 at 10:30 PM
My latest "Pardon the Disruption" weekly Substack takes on the dangerous nonsense of the "never give up" cult, PLUS my takes on the retail stories that mattered this week.
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JUST DROPPED! Retail OGs David J. Katz and Billy May join The Remarkable Retail Podcast to deliver a master class on what's new and next in retail that you can't afford to miss.
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February 5, 2026 at 12:18 PM
JUST DROPPED! Retail OGs David J. Katz and Billy May join The Remarkable Retail Podcast to deliver a master class on what's new and next in retail that you can't afford to miss.
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JUST PUBLISHED ON SUBSTACK: "My Baker's Dozen of Provocative 2026 Retail Predictions."
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My Baker's Dozen of Provocative 2026 Retail Predictions
My Baker’s Dozen of Provocative 2026 Retail Predictions
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January 30, 2026 at 8:03 PM
JUST PUBLISHED ON SUBSTACK: "My Baker's Dozen of Provocative 2026 Retail Predictions."
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JUST DROPPED: The annual predictions episode of The Remarkable Retail Podcast!!
This year I deliver a baker's dozen of (reasonably) educated guesses on the stories that will define 2026, featuring Target, Starbucks, Nike, Saks Global, SEPHORA, Amazon, and more!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...
This year I deliver a baker's dozen of (reasonably) educated guesses on the stories that will define 2026, featuring Target, Starbucks, Nike, Saks Global, SEPHORA, Amazon, and more!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...
January 28, 2026 at 11:47 AM
JUST DROPPED: The annual predictions episode of The Remarkable Retail Podcast!!
This year I deliver a baker's dozen of (reasonably) educated guesses on the stories that will define 2026, featuring Target, Starbucks, Nike, Saks Global, SEPHORA, Amazon, and more!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...
This year I deliver a baker's dozen of (reasonably) educated guesses on the stories that will define 2026, featuring Target, Starbucks, Nike, Saks Global, SEPHORA, Amazon, and more!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...
The latest edition of my "Pardon the Disruption" Substack newsletter is live.
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I Love You, But You Are Not Serious People
Listening to the wrong voices, stories that mattered this week, and we go up and away on the latest edition of the Remarkable Retail pod.
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January 26, 2026 at 7:52 PM
The latest edition of my "Pardon the Disruption" Substack newsletter is live.
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“The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.”
- Heather Cox Richardson
- Heather Cox Richardson
January 23, 2026 at 11:40 PM
“The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.”
- Heather Cox Richardson
- Heather Cox Richardson
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Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)
January 22, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)
BIG NEWS! The online leadership course based on "Leaders Leap: Transforming Your Company at the Speed of Disruption"--my most recent bestselling book--is now available on Coursera!
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January 20, 2026 at 6:50 PM
BIG NEWS! The online leadership course based on "Leaders Leap: Transforming Your Company at the Speed of Disruption"--my most recent bestselling book--is now available on Coursera!
www.coursera.org/learn/packt-...
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KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?”
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January 20, 2026 at 12:11 PM
KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?”
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In “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King Jr. outlined a strategy to expose the brutality of his opponents. Anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota are following his script—and it’s working, @galbeckerman.bsky.social argues:
Minnesota Had Its Birmingham Moment
In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. outlined a strategy to expose official brutality. Anti-ICE protesters are following it—and it’s working.
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January 19, 2026 at 11:45 PM
In “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King Jr. outlined a strategy to expose the brutality of his opponents. Anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota are following his script—and it’s working, @galbeckerman.bsky.social argues:
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“If you try to take my hostage I’m going to shoot myself in the foot.”
New tariff just dropped.
Americans set to pay an additional 10% tax on all goods from Germany, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland.
It starts in two weeks, rising to 25% by June.
(Aside: A trade war with one EU country is a trade war with the entire EU).
Americans set to pay an additional 10% tax on all goods from Germany, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland.
It starts in two weeks, rising to 25% by June.
(Aside: A trade war with one EU country is a trade war with the entire EU).
January 17, 2026 at 5:31 PM
“If you try to take my hostage I’m going to shoot myself in the foot.”
Thanks to the Dallas Morning News for including my comments on the Saks Global, Neiman Marcus debacle.
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Saks, Neiman Marcus look for path forward with bankruptcy, after ‘disaster’ merger
Geoffroy van Raemdonck, the new CEO of Saks Global, must grapple with the headaches of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, working with disappointed vendors — and...
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January 16, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Thanks to the Dallas Morning News for including my comments on the Saks Global, Neiman Marcus debacle.
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Tell Congress to rein in ICE NOW act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
Tell Congress to rein in ICE NOW
On Wednesday, January 7, Renee Good, an American citizen, was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This was a direct result of unchecked violence, impunity, a...
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January 15, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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"Welcome to the Failure Conference, this week's "Pardon the Disruption" Substack newsletter has gone live!
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January 15, 2026 at 5:07 PM
"Welcome to the Failure Conference, this week's "Pardon the Disruption" Substack newsletter has gone live!
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I very much agree with this. This isn’t careful planning. It’s not 3-D chess. It’s a bunch of really bad people trying to quickly do the really bad things they dream about because nobody ever hugged them or told them they were acting like a jackass.
The flopsweat desperation of an administration that can feel the walls closing in, just smashing and grabbing everything they can before the reckoning comes.
And it's coming in one form or another -- the Epstein Files, Trump's death spiral, maybe just the midterm elections. And they all know it.
And it's coming in one form or another -- the Epstein Files, Trump's death spiral, maybe just the midterm elections. And they all know it.
I don't know about all of you, but I am finding it difficult to process Venezuela, Greenland, Minneapolis, and the Fed all at once.
January 15, 2026 at 1:14 AM
I very much agree with this. This isn’t careful planning. It’s not 3-D chess. It’s a bunch of really bad people trying to quickly do the really bad things they dream about because nobody ever hugged them or told them they were acting like a jackass.
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Apparently, it is now acceptable to attain a new status in life, simply by proclamation.
I hereby declare I am a 6' 2", 27 yr-old EGOT winner who is currently dating Taylor Swift.
Thank you for your attention to our delusions.
I hereby declare I am a 6' 2", 27 yr-old EGOT winner who is currently dating Taylor Swift.
Thank you for your attention to our delusions.
January 13, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Apparently, it is now acceptable to attain a new status in life, simply by proclamation.
I hereby declare I am a 6' 2", 27 yr-old EGOT winner who is currently dating Taylor Swift.
Thank you for your attention to our delusions.
I hereby declare I am a 6' 2", 27 yr-old EGOT winner who is currently dating Taylor Swift.
Thank you for your attention to our delusions.
NEW YEAR, NEW SEASON of the industry's leading podcast! Sucharita Kodali and Simeon Siegel help kick the year off right joining The Remarkable Retail Podcast for another edition of "The Analysts."
#RetailVoicesbyNRF #TRE #remarkableretail #podcast #futureofretail
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#RetailVoicesbyNRF #TRE #remarkableretail #podcast #futureofretail
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“The Analysts”: Simeon Siegel and Sucharita Kodali’s 2026 Retail Playbook
Podcast Episode · Remarkable Retail Podcast · 01/13/2026 · 56m
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January 13, 2026 at 7:09 PM
NEW YEAR, NEW SEASON of the industry's leading podcast! Sucharita Kodali and Simeon Siegel help kick the year off right joining The Remarkable Retail Podcast for another edition of "The Analysts."
#RetailVoicesbyNRF #TRE #remarkableretail #podcast #futureofretail
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#RetailVoicesbyNRF #TRE #remarkableretail #podcast #futureofretail
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This week's edition of my "Pardon the Disruption" Substack has just been published. Let's talk about Saks, the best time to plant a tree, and what I'm up to at the NRF Big Show. Plus the top 5 episodes of 2025 from the pod.
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Gradually, Then Suddenly
Let's talk about Saks, the best time to plant a tree, what I'm up to at the NRF Big Show. Plus the top 5 episodes of 2025 from the pod.
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January 11, 2026 at 12:45 PM
This week's edition of my "Pardon the Disruption" Substack has just been published. Let's talk about Saks, the best time to plant a tree, and what I'm up to at the NRF Big Show. Plus the top 5 episodes of 2025 from the pod.
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The award-winning Remarkable Retail Podcast returns this Tuesday for an all new season.
Check out our latest trailer below.
Follow us on any of the major platforms, as well as on YouTube.
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Check out our latest trailer below.
Follow us on any of the major platforms, as well as on YouTube.
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January 9, 2026 at 4:21 PM
The award-winning Remarkable Retail Podcast returns this Tuesday for an all new season.
Check out our latest trailer below.
Follow us on any of the major platforms, as well as on YouTube.
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Check out our latest trailer below.
Follow us on any of the major platforms, as well as on YouTube.
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This is murder.
This is what state sponsored terrorism looks like. ICE thugs just murdered a Legal Observer in cold blood in broad daylight. This blood is directly on Donald Trump's hands
NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed
January 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
This is murder.
Happy shameless self-promotion day to all who celebrate!
I'm humbled and honored to be named a RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert for the sixth straight year. Congratulations to the far too many friends, colleagues, and many past pod guests.
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I'm humbled and honored to be named a RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert for the sixth straight year. Congratulations to the far too many friends, colleagues, and many past pod guests.
See the full list here: rethink.industries/top-retail-e...
January 6, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Happy shameless self-promotion day to all who celebrate!
I'm humbled and honored to be named a RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert for the sixth straight year. Congratulations to the far too many friends, colleagues, and many past pod guests.
See the full list here: rethink.industries/top-retail-e...
I'm humbled and honored to be named a RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert for the sixth straight year. Congratulations to the far too many friends, colleagues, and many past pod guests.
See the full list here: rethink.industries/top-retail-e...