by Brittain Ladd | Aug 31, 2023 | Business, Consumer Electronics, E-Commerce, Retail, Strategy
Few retailers benefitted more from COVID than Best Buy. When confronted with the fact that restaurants, gyms, movie theaters and other non-essential businesses would be closed, consumers shopped at Best Buy to make purchases of smart TVs, gaming products and other...
by Brittain Ladd | Aug 29, 2023 | Consumer Packaged Goods, Delivery, E-Commerce, Food & Drink, Grocery, Retail
In the world of retail, three companies stand out above all others: Amazon, Costco, and Walmart. Of the three, Walmart is the largest retailer by revenue – $611B in 2022, and store count – over 4,700 stores operate in the U.S. Walmart’s stores...
by Brittain Ladd | Aug 28, 2023 | Consumer Packaged Goods, Economics, Grocery, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail
There are many examples of deception throughout history. The attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, is arguably one of the most famous deceptions ever conceived. Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto conceived the Pearl Harbor attack and Captain Minoru...
by Brittain Ladd | Mar 28, 2023 | E-Commerce, Logistics, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail, Robotics
According to reports from CNBC and the Wall Street Journal, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., said it plans to split itself into six independently run companies that could seek separate IPOs, effectively dismantling a business empire built over two...
by Brittain Ladd | Mar 26, 2023 | No Retreat, No Surrender
According to a report from Reuters, and several other publications, retailers have finally come to the realization that free shipping isn’t free. Amazon popularized the concept of free shipping as a unique selling proposition, leveraging their profitable Prime...