by Brittain Ladd | Jan 6, 2025 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Consulting, Consumer Packaged Goods, Delivery, E-Commerce, Grocery, Innovation, Leadership, Logistics, Management, Marketing, Microfulfillment, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail, Retailers, Robotics, Strategy, Supply Chains
In 2013, executives at Lidl made the decision to enter the U.S. grocery market. Lidl is a German-owned discounter that operates over 12,000 stores located in 31 countries. Lidl competes on price hence the reason why it is referred to as a discounter. Lidl sells around...
by Brittain Ladd | Jan 1, 2025 | AI, Articles, Consumer Packaged Goods, Delivery, E-Commerce, Grocery, Logistics, Microfulfillment, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail
This article originally appeared in Forbes. July 8, 2018 Aside from Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods, few grocers generated as much press and excitement in 2017 than Lidl’s arrival in the United States. Opening its headquarters in Arlington, Virginia,...
by Brittain Ladd | Sep 8, 2024 | Business, Consulting, Consumer Packaged Goods, Freight Forwarding, Grocery, No Retreat, No Surrender, Transportation
Every morning, millions of people sit down to eat a bowl of cereal. The process is simple: pour cereal into a bowl, add milk, eat. What isn’t simple, however, is the process for bringing a box of Cheerio’s from the factory to the shelf in the most efficient,...
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...
