The Exaggerated Death of Retail
Amazon is a retail juggernaut. Last year the company was responsible for 5% of total US retail sales (online and offline). Their growth and expansion…
Chapter 10
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Channel Optimization with Big Data
Continuing the theme of our last post, this article on ZDNet discusses the way UPS uses big data to solve business problems. In their case,…
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The Collapse of Retail
Every few months there is an article about the end of the brick-and-mortar retail era. Chain after chain disappear, often citing Amazon as the primary…
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Chapter 03 | Chapter 05 | Chapter 08 | Chapter 10 | Chapter 12 | Competition | Place | Product
Snap Kitchen’s Healthy and Convenient Meals Gain Foothold
Snap Kitchen is trying to find that sweet spot many consumers want — tasty, convenient and healthy food at a fair price. There is a good…
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Chapter 09 | Chapter 10 | Chapter 17 | Chapter 19 | Ethics | Place | Price | Product | Promotion | Segmentation
EpiPen Pricing Offers Opportunity to Explore Strategy and Ethics
It was hard to miss the story of Mylan’s pricing of the EpiPen as it played across the business news cycle for a couple of weeks in…
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What’s Now? Chapter 10 – Changes coming to movie distribution
The What’s Next? box in chapter 10, “Bits and bytes need distribution, too” describes how digital products require many of the same regrouping activities as physical goods….