It’s a slippery slope: As a retailer, media figure, or just a person with a social media account, you want to say something compelling and stand for something, but...you also don’t want to paint yourself into a box and only be about that one thing, especially as times and tastes change.

To not only survive—but thrive!—in today’s competitive retail environment, we were reminded at the CBUS19 retail conference that you have to (first) know who you are, so you can (second) do brave things that others can’t.

If you’ve ever wondered if your day-to-day work has real relevance to what’s going on in the retail industry at-large—you must seek professional help. No, not therapists and doctors (hopefully not!), but the professional kind we got this week at the #CBUS19 retail conference.