In current jargon, the phrase the “retail apocalypse” refers to the vast closures of stores throughout the world. Over the …
What’s Really Responsible for the Retail Apocalypse?
02 Thursday Apr 2020
Category Archives: Chapter 02: Types of Retailers
How to Make Friends Online the Old-Fashioned Way (Buying Clothes Together)
31 Friday Jan 2020
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Customer Buying Behavior, Customer service, Noishaf Bazaar, Online retailing, Retail Communication Mix, Types of Retailers
Imagine you’re a fashionable, environmentally conscious young professional, hired into your first job. Your company sends you to, say, Dubuque, …
4 Grocers that Are Turning Stores into Destinations
23 Monday Sep 2019
Grocery shopping is a chore that people try to get done as quickly and painlessly as possible. Right? Not necessarily—especially …
Department Stores Make a Bid for Relevancy
19 Wednesday Jun 2019
The introduction of a concept offering usually is associated with the automotive or fashion industries; manufacturers let their designers go …
Amazon to Shut All U.S. Pop-Up Stores as It Rethinks Physical Retail Strategy
07 Tuesday May 2019
The recent and ongoing evolution of Amazon’s experiments with omnichannel retailing, as it moves out of cyberspace and into various …
Amazon Targets Unprofitable Items, With a Sharper Focus on the Bottom Line
25 Friday Jan 2019
Shoppers might prefer to order bulky, heavy household products (e.g., cans of soup, bottled beverages) to be delivered, so that …
Amazon and Whole Foods After a Year: Supermarkets Will See Massive Changes
23 Wednesday Jan 2019
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It’s a million-dollar—or more accurately, a 13 billion-dollar—question: Why did Amazon buy Whole Foods? Even casual observers note that there …
Target’s Answer to Discounters Is an Even Cheaper Store Brand
27 Tuesday Nov 2018
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Store brands provide a unique means for retailers to signal their identity and strategy. Target’s most recent initiative in this …
Some Big Retailers Are Still Betting on Brick and Mortar
30 Friday Mar 2018
The competition between brick-and-mortar retailers and their electronic counterparts—especially Amazon—is long-standing, persistent, and constant. But even as many skeptics continue …
What Will 7-Eleven Do with All Its New Stores?
28 Wednesday Mar 2018
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In the largest acquisition in its entire history, 7-Eleven has purchased 1030 stores in 17 states from Sunoco, such that …
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