Let’s count the ways that Amazon can get your order into your hands: Shipping to your door, often requiring you …
Amazon Adds Rite Aid Locations to Package Delivery Network
16 Monday Sep 2019
TidBit: Shut Out by Shoe Giants, “Mom and Pop” Stores Feel Pinched
12 Thursday Sep 2019
Posted in Retail Tidbits
As if competition with huge chain stores, with their vast volumes of inventory and often lower prices, were not challenging …
Sweetgreen Scraps its Cashless Policy as Criticism Grows
10 Tuesday Sep 2019
Posted in Chapter 07: Financial Strategy
Just a few short years ago, popular press articles were filled with announcements, discussions, and predictions about the cashless future, …
How a Canadian Chain Is Reinventing Book Selling
05 Thursday Sep 2019
Virginia Woolf famously insisted that if they wanted to write fiction, women needed “money and a room of one’s own.” …
Walgreens Profit Squeezed by Generic Drugs
02 Monday Sep 2019
Is a drugstore still a drugstore if it can’t make money by selling drugs? That’s a question facing the dominant …
Forget the Mall, Shoppers Are Buying Gucci at Airports
29 Thursday Aug 2019
Posted in Chapter 08: Retail Locations
Modern travel often means getting to the airport with more than enough time, just to be safe and avoid the …
How E-Commerce Sites Manipulate You into Buying Things You May Not Want
26 Monday Aug 2019
Questions about what constitutes unethical influence tactics and what are legitimate advertising or retailing practices are impossible to answer conclusively; …
The Empty Storefront Crisis and the End of the American Dream
22 Thursday Aug 2019
American retailing has historically provided a meaningful path to prosperity for various members of the population, including immigrants and people …
The Boutique Fitness Boom
19 Monday Aug 2019
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In various retail sectors, proximity to competitors is a key strategic imperative. Drug stores, electronics chains, and restaurants have long …
FedEx Says Its Ending Express Shipping Service for Amazon
15 Thursday Aug 2019
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Amazon’s unending, seemingly inevitable growth can be both a threat and an opportunity for its supply chain partners. For FedEx, …