“Nike Broke Up With Retailers. Now It’s Trying to Win Them Back”
This recent Wall Street Journal article, “Nike Broke Up With Retailers. Now It’s Trying to Win Them Back,” (June 10, 2023, non-subscribers may be able…
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Retailers Push Back on Returns
After years of generous and easy return policies, “Retailers Clamp Down on Returns,” (Wall Street Journal, subscription required, May 23, 2023). The bottom line –…
Will TikTok Take Over the World?
Will TikTok become a new retailing powerhouse? It looks like it is going to give it a try. TikTok rose from obscurity to became the…
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Amazon’s Amazing Statistics…
Scott Galloway provides a short video where he shares some crazy statistics about Amazon. For example, did you know that within 45 minutes of an…
Shortage of Warehouse Space…
This short (9 minute) Planet Money podcast titled “Full (ware)house” covers some interesting trends in the warehouse space. One current situation is that in spite…
Social e-commerce is huge in Asia. It’s coming to the U.S.
My kids have started talking about social e-commerce. Of course that is not the term they use, but buying via Instagram is growing fast. “Social…
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Seattle’s Zero-Emissions Last-Mile Delivery Hub
Earlier this month, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its latest report on the climate. It was not encouraging and clearly points…
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How Can Supply Chains Reduce Climate Change (#M4BW)
As regular readers of this blog know, the recently published 17th edition of Essentials of Marketing includes several examples each chapter of companies, brands, or…
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Mattress firms creating value (?) with financing deals…
The mattress industry is a pretty crazy (check out “The Great Mattress Conspiracy: Why Are There So Many Mattress Stores?” on Endless Thread, podcast and…