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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Elastic Pricing: Beyond Dynamic
Hardly a day goes by without an article or discussion about “dynamic pricing.” By now, we all know that dynamic pricing refers to the ability to present prices to specific consumers at certain times based… Read More
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Caracas Lost Dreams
I noted more than a few binoculars focused this morning on the military airfield outside my Caracas hotel. It’s likely they were searching the ground for evidence of the military coup I heard whispers about… Read More
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Land Of Opportunity To Barren Wasteland
“Bubble Capitalism” Crushes the American Dream Forget the cresting, breaking and other visible economic waves we discern on the surface of our economy — all accompanied by “cyclical” blathering of the dire necessity to create… Read More
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From Profit Center to Competitive Mandate: Shifting Your Shipping Strategy
Although the rush of consumers shopping online shows no signs of slowing, with an increase of 15% during the 2011 holiday season alone, many retailers’ shipping strategies haven’t kept pace. A December survey of 8,000… Read More
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