{"id":131594,"date":"2026-02-21T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therobinreport.com\/?p=131594"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:26:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:26:57","slug":"kohls-the-robin-report-retail-miss-of-the-week-2-21-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therobinreport.com\/kohls-the-robin-report-retail-miss-of-the-week-2-21-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Kohls: The Robin Report Retail Miss of the Week, 2.21.26"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The idea of full price retailers setting aside a dedicated promotional area in their stores goes back at least to the famous \u201cO\u201d tables (opportunities) merchandised by up-and-coming junior buyers at A&S including Allen Questrom and\u00a0 Mike Gould. And then there were the Blue Light Specials at Kmart in its heyday. The best manifestations more recently were the Target Bullseye Dollar Spots, which have since lost much their luster and focus like so much else in the store. So, Kohls\u2019 introduction of a similar merchandising concept called the Deal Bar doesn\u2019t get any kudos from us. In fact, what worries us is Kohl\u2019s chronically poor execution at the store level. Why can\u2019t they get this right; it\u2019s not rocket science. This could easily turn into a pile of leftovers, markdowns and irrelevance. We hope not but Kohl\u2019s track record on such programs continues to be pretty dismal.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The idea of full price retailers setting aside a dedicated promotional area in their stores goes back at least to the famous \u201cO\u201d tables (opportunities) merchandised by up-and-coming junior buyers at A&S including Allen Questrom and\u00a0 Mike Gould.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":131596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[736,735],"class_list":["post-131594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-operations","tag-innovation","tag-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therobinreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therobinreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therobinreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therobinreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therobinreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therobinreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therobinreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therobinreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therobinreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therobinreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}