{"id":133532,"date":"2026-02-28T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therobinreport.com\/?p=133532"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:20:22","slug":"richard-baker-the-robin-report-retail-miss-of-the-week-2-27-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therobinreport.com\/richard-baker-the-robin-report-retail-miss-of-the-week-2-27-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Baker: The Robin Report Retail Miss of the\u00a0Week, 2.27.26"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"133532\" class=\"elementor elementor-133532\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-046c50d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"046c50d\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1026717 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1026717\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>OK, play it again one more time. At first, I thought I was reading the satirical Onion when I saw\u00a0an interview\u00a0with\u00a0former Saks\/Neiman\u2019s\/HBC\/Lord &amp; Taylor\/etc., self-styled entrepreneur. He said he &#8220;saved&#8221; luxury department store retailing\u00a0in the country. Really? We know he owes Chanel, Zegna and Akris more than $700 million. We&#8217;ve lambasted Baker more than once and after\u00a0his exit from the Saks Global business\u00a0earlier this year when they filed for bankruptcy,\u00a0we figured we might not have a chance to kick\u00a0him around anymore. So, this interview\u00a0in The New York Times was a bonus treat. How else would\u00a0we have had the chance to hear him say he was the only person &#8220;on Earth&#8221; who could\u00a0have kept those\u00a0businesses and going for as long they did. He also said, \u201cI\u2019m happy to be out of the department store business.\u201d So are we. \u00a0He may be the only person \u201con Earth\u201d to consistently leave scorched retail earth behind him. Maybe, just maybe the Richard Baker Misses are coming to an end. But let\u2019s not forget his family owns a real estate company with over 10 million square feet of shopping centers.<\/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":"<p>OK, play it again one more time. At first, I thought I was reading the satirical Onion when I saw\u00a0an interview\u00a0with\u00a0former Saks\/Neiman\u2019s\/HBC\/Lord &#038; Taylor\/etc., self-styled entrepreneur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":133533,"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":[17],"tags":[696],"class_list":["post-133532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-management","tag-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therobinreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133532","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=133532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therobinreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therobinreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therobinreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therobinreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therobinreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}