Brittain Ladd

The Sad Saga of Food Rocket and Couche-Tard

by Brittain Ladd | Mar 11, 2023 | Delivery, Food & Drink, No Retreat, No Surrender

Imagine you’re the CEO of an $8B convenience global retail chain with approximately 9,300 c-stores in North America – 7,100 in the United States and 2,100 in Canada – for a worldwide total network of 14,200 stores. As the CEO, you want to maximize sales at...

Uber’s ‘Bridge Too Far’

by Brittain Ladd | Mar 10, 2023 | Delivery, Food & Drink, No Retreat, No Surrender, Trucking

One of my favorite books is ‘A Bridge Too Far’ by Cornelius Ryan. The book recounts one of the largest military operations in WW ll code-named Operation Market Garden. The offensive called for three Allied airborne divisions (the “Market” part of the...

Automated Last-Mile Delivery has Arrived

by Brittain Ladd | Mar 4, 2023 | Delivery, No Retreat, No Surrender

During multiple supply chain conferences in 2022, DoorDash, Uber, Instacart, Grubhub, Amazon, Walmart, Target, Domino’s, McDonald’s, Walgreens, CVS Health, and Yum! Brands, to name a few, were among the companies asked this question: What do you want to...

Is Micro-Fulfillment The ‘Next Big Thing’ In Retail?

by Brittain Ladd | Jul 22, 2022 | Articles, Delivery, Forbes, Microfulfillment, Retail

GETTY Read original article on Forbes 2022 has been a challenging year for many retailers. Issues such as supply chain disruptions that have delayed shipments of inventory are preventing retailers from setting their stores up with the products customers want most....

Gimmick Companies, Lessons Learned From Modeling, And Is The NRA Friend Or Foe?

by Brittain Ladd | May 30, 2022 | Delivery, Newsletter, No Retreat, No Surrender

I love doing research. I always have. One of the topics that I enjoy researching the most is business. Beginning in 2020, I began to notice something interesting – companies were being funded and launched that didn’t offer value in my opinion, instead,...

Why Working Remotely is so Dangerous to your Career

by Brittain Ladd | May 26, 2022 | Delivery, Newsletter, No Retreat, No Surrender

I was going to write about my career as a model and male dancer in this episode of the newsletter, and what I learned that has helped me so much in business. However, as I was thinking of what to write, I saw a headline that stated that companies are locked in a...