It’s appropriate and timely to speculate on the sustainability of all the wonderful U.S. economic news coming out at the end of the second quarter with 4.3 percent GDP growth, including relatively equivalent jumps in… Read More
The refrain in William Shakespeare’s Song of the Witches from Macbeth was originally written: “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.” It was a scary scene, and the title of this article… Read More
This is a tale of two worlds: the old and the new. VF is exiting its final two old-world brands, Lee and Wrangler. They are saying adios to their diminishing old-world Boomer consumers to focus… Read More
Amazon coined “the last mile” as the most important, complex and costly last leg of distribution. Their goal: speed of delivery within hours, or less. They also started free shipping. Both moves have had huge… Read More
The current thread of the many conversations I have with the top executives of the retail and consumer-facing industries is that all of commerce is still in the grip of techno-chaotic disruption, destruction and transformation.… Read More
The new Macy’s Herald Square B8ta shop (which they acquired an equity interest in) is not just a cool, modern looking shop that sells cool, modern stuff adjacent to the already cool pop-up shops, The… Read More
There are a lot of naysayers around these days, particularly aimed at the big box and department store models. And I would usually tend to side with them. In fact, many times I have been… Read More
“Distribution channels,” as they were once called before the Internet, are being wiped out by a stealth democratization process arguably begun by Amazon. Walmart has entered the field punctuated by its launch of Jetblack, a… Read More
