Do we have amnesia? A mere six months ago at Shop.org in Los Angeles, I remember sitting amidst heated debates, akin to the Miller Lite “Taste Great, Less Filling” ads from the 1980s. The sticking… Read More
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Cryptocurrency – Game Changer or Disaster in Waiting?
Since revisionist history seems to be taking center stage in Washington and elsewhere, let’s take a stab at our own. Were he alive today, Thomas Paine, one of the architects of the American Revolution and… Read More
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Are We Into Creative Destruction or Just Plain Destruction?
According to Moody’s Investors Service, 13.5 percent of their retail and apparel portfolio is distressed, compared to 16 percent during the Great Recession. This little factoid, along with the recent announcements of thousands of store… Read More
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Cash
The 21st-century economist understands cash on a global market scale. Trillions are sitting in accounts across the world. The largest global technology companies are sitting on piles parked in offshore accounts beyond the reach of… Read More
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Happy New Year!
Not Much Happy or New About It, Except… This Holiday Season, Santa’s sleigh was so overstuffed that he was able to leave a lot of nearly-free, and even-free gifts under the trees of our nation’s… Read More
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The Long Tail Theory
Can Be Reality for Traditional Megabrands A decade has passed since Chris Anderson wrote The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling More for Less, and his theory is being proven as reality.… Read More
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Investment Bellwethers: Four Pivotal Brands
Investor Headline: Slowing topline growth in tandem with increased marketing and IT spend leads to margin contraction and a disappointing bottom line. This is a sad assessment for many retailers in the omnichannel world of… Read More
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Walmart – “It’s The Right Thing To Do”
Here is one more glaring example of the absurd and frankly, stupid “short-termism” of Wall Street and the investment community. Doug McMillon, Walmart’s relatively new CEO, its youngest ever at age 49 and its first… Read More
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Developing Markets Aren’t Just About Opportunity
While Stephen Elop was describing the culture of a Finnish telecom company he could easily have been referring to many western retail organizations today, specifically the pervasive attitudes around what is valued and how we… Read More
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Darkness at Dawn
The closer you get to the Equator, the more dawn and dusk become switches rather than transitions. It’s dark, it’s light. I’ve learned as a global traveler to keep the curtains open at night, my… Read More
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