by Brittain Ladd | Jun 19, 2020 | Articles, E-Commerce, Grocery, Retail, Uncategorized
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...
by Brittain Ladd | Jun 17, 2020 | Articles, E-Commerce, Grocery, Retail, Uncategorized
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...
by Brittain Ladd | Jul 29, 2019 | Articles, E-Commerce, Retail, Retailers, The Observer
Imagine if General George Patton was the CEO of Walmart. What would Patton see? What strategy would he implement against Amazon? Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images Read original article on The Observer. One of the more popular speeches that I have given is about my belief...
by Brittain Ladd | Jun 24, 2019 | Articles, E-Commerce, Retail, The Observer
An Amazon employee retrieves products from an assorted storage area to fulfill orders placed by customers prior to packaging at Amazon’s newly launched fulfillment centre situated on the outskirts of Bangalore. MANJUNATH KIRAN/AFP/Getty Images Read original article on...
