by Brittain Ladd | Jul 21, 2023 | AI, Grocery, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail
According to this article by Jinjoo Lee, supermarkets are losing market share and customers to big-box retailers like Costco Wholesale who has a highly efficient operating model and leans on membership fees and sales volume to generate revenue and profits. Walmart,...
by Brittain Ladd | Jun 28, 2023 | Articles, E-Commerce, Forbes, Grocery, Microfulfillment
GETTY Read original article on Forbes H-E-B, one of the best grocery retailers in the U.S. in my opinion, has announced the opening of a 55,000 square feet micro-fulfillment center that is attached to an H-E-B store located in Plano, Texas. The Plano facility is the...
by Brittain Ladd | Jun 2, 2023 | Grocery, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail
What follows is only my opinion. Strategy is the least understood aspect of business. Even well-known retailers can make decisions they think are strategic but they’re not. For example, “ALDI USA and Instacart, the leading grocery technology company in North America,...
by Brittain Ladd | May 30, 2023 | Grocery, Logistics, Microfulfillment, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail
Dollar General, led by CEO Jeff Owen, is arguably the best-positioned retailer for growth out of any other retailer in the world. The company currently operates more than 19,000 stores in 47 states and generated $37.8B in revenue in 2022. The company is rapidly...
by Brittain Ladd | May 24, 2023 | Logistics, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail
One of the more difficult things to do as a media company is market a list of something and then defend how the list was chosen. In the case of CNBC, they have created a list of the Top 50 most disruptive companies. CNBC provides a summary of how the companies were...