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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
