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Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast it dives into a different sector of the stock

market every day. It's Tuesday, June 12th and I'm your host Fitz and Shen.

Fools, I'm going to start this show with a question. How many times have you heard about the

retail apocalypse in recent years, including some of the more dire predictions for even the largest

and brick and mortar chains out there. I know we've talked about this on the show before, but today

we're going to check in on department stores because that part of retail comes to mind for a lot of people as kind of the

picture perfect example of a business model that has fallen prey to this retail

apocalypse but some department stores are defying the naysayers with

incredible share price gains recently so I'm listening the I'm enlisting the

help of senior monthly full contributor Adam Levine Weburg to cover the latest developments in this space.

And he joins us via Skype from Sacramento, California.

Hey Adam, great to have you back on the show.

Thanks for having me.

So really glad that you could hop on today with us and basically put into perspective

what the management teams at these companies are doing to turn around their

businesses and win over investors to the point that their stocks

are pretty much trancing the S&P 500 so far in 2018.

It's really not even close.

The broad market is up about 3.4% year-to-date.

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