by Brittain Ladd | Aug 19, 2020 | E-Commerce, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail, Supply Chains
A topic that fascinates me is business and the decisions that are made by executives when determining how they will grow their companies, design and launch new products, enter new markets and most of all, deal with competitors. Few decisions are as important as how to...
by Brittain Ladd | Aug 10, 2020 | Delivery, E-Commerce, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail
People can die from any number of ways including accidents, which can kill them quickly, or from diseases which can kill them slowly. In the articles I write, I often state that a company can die. Most companies don’t die quickly, they die slowly; sometimes over...
by Brittain Ladd | Aug 6, 2020 | Grocery, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail
Out of all the industries in the United States, few are as unprofitable and unpredictable as farming. I was born and raised on a farm in Iowa and I have relatives across several states farming a combined 30,000 acres of land while also raising cattle and hogs....
by Brittain Ladd | Aug 3, 2020 | E-Commerce, Grocery, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail
Articles about Instacart continue to appear in the press but for all the wrong reasons. The most recent articles outline that Instacart workers are losing money because bots are being used by some Instacart workers to snatch the most lucrative orders within...
by Brittain Ladd | Aug 3, 2020 | Grocery, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail
The Labor Department reports that food prices have increased to their highest levels. Prices for meats, poultry, fish and eggs increased the most rising 4.3% Stated simply, consumers are being crushed by the price of groceries. Will prices come down? No. They’re...
