by Brittain Ladd | Jul 11, 2023 | E-Commerce, Marketing, No Retreat, No Surrender, Social Media
For those of you who don’t follow Linette Lopez, I encourage you to do so. The articles she writes for Insider always have a degree of bared fangs and sharp claws mingled with humor and facts. This article reinforces much of what I wrote would happen to Twitter in...
by Brittain Ladd | Apr 28, 2023 | AI, Logistics, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail, Robotics, Social Media, Supply Chains
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Brett Adcock, Founder and CEO of Figure, regarding the company’s vision for robots. Brett is also the founder of Archer, an aviation company, and Vettery, a hiring marketplace. Figure recently came out of stealth mode...
by Brittain Ladd | Apr 15, 2023 | Grocery, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail, Social Media
I appreciate the fact that my posts and articles are read and shared across Amazon. Thank you to everyone at Amazon who shares six-pagers, photos and diagrams of store mockups, and other information related to Amazon’s grocery strategy. I enjoy our...
by Brittain Ladd | Apr 14, 2023 | AI, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail, Social Media
Elon Musk, Founder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and who acquired Twitter in 2022 for $40B, is launching his own AI company called X.AI Corporation. Musk has brought on Igor Babuschkin, a former DeepMind employee, to lead the efforts. I’ve been expecting Musk to...
by Brittain Ladd | Apr 5, 2023 | No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail, Social Media
Walmart held its annual investor meeting today where the company said that by the end of fiscal year 2026, it aims to have 65% of its stores be serviced by automation, approximately 55% of the fulfillment center volume to move through automated facilities, and as a...
