NEW YORK CITY—The view is fairly cloudy right now. There are so many moving parts on the retail landscape that navigation can be a problem. But as you’ll learn in this exclusive video interview from the ICSC New York Dealmaking Conference, Rick Chichester, president and  CEO of Faris Lee Investments, has a slightly different perspective on those issues.

Among the questions he tackles are the pending tax bill and its impact on consumer confidence, why Amazon’s Whole Foods purchase is a net positive for retail, and why, despite the apparent reasons for all the store closures, the solutions to new issues might lie in traditional precepts of good business.

To find out more, click the video below.