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Thucydide’s Trap: Amazon, Tesla And The Danger Of Extreme Competition

Thucydide’s Trap: Amazon, Tesla And The Danger Of Extreme Competition

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...
Invasion USA: How Amazon Will Take Over Retail One Mall At A Time

Invasion USA: How Amazon Will Take Over Retail One Mall At A Time

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...
What’s Next For Instacart?

What’s Next For Instacart?

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...
Louis Borders Has Reimagined The Grocery Business

Louis Borders Has Reimagined The Grocery Business

by Brittain Ladd | Jul 10, 2020 | Articles, Delivery, E-Commerce, Grocery, Retail

I had the pleasure of recently speaking with Louis Borders, the founder of Borders bookstores, and the first heavily-automated online grocery retailer, Webvan. I didn’t just interview Borders and ask him the same questions he’s already been asked hundreds...
Robomart Is About To Revolutionize Retail And Business

Robomart Is About To Revolutionize Retail And Business

by Brittain Ladd | Jun 19, 2020 | Articles, E-Commerce, Grocery, Retail

Retail sales in 2020 are expected to reach $5 trillion dollars and by 2023, retail sales globally are estimated to reach $30 trillion U.S. dollars. Retail is big business. Inspired by a desire to reimagine retail as we know it, Ali Ahmed, Tigran Shahverdyan and Emad...
Amazon and Whole Foods: Three Years Later, Is Amazon Any Closer To Being A Leader In Groceries?

Amazon and Whole Foods: Three Years Later, Is Amazon Any Closer To Being A Leader In Groceries?

by Brittain Ladd | Jun 17, 2020 | Articles, E-Commerce, Grocery, Retail

On June 16, 2017, Amazon announced that they had acquired Whole Foods for $13.4B. I was not surprised at the announcement as I had made such a recommendation in this 2013 research paper. Amazon has owned Whole Foods for three years. Was the acquisition worth it? Has...
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