When I heard the buzz last week that Target and Kroger are talking to each other about merging, I said to myself, wow, this platform-sharing ...

Back at the founding of American retail, led by 19th and early 20th century visionaries like John Wanamaker, Rowland Hussey Macy, Marshall Field, Richard Warren ...

At the risk of rolling out all the easy clichés – the game is over, playtime is done, Toy Story: The Final Chapter – the ...

Back in August of 2016 when CEO Brian Cornell was beginning to frame his strategy for Target’s turnaround and accelerated growth, I wrote that he ...

Now more than ever, radical behavior is what traditional retailers need. I was fortunate last week to have met with the incoming CEO of Kohl’s, ...

In an “if a tree falls in the forest” way, is an announcement of a business alliance between two companies really an announcement if neither ...

Warren Buffet always said, “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” That may be true in the rarified atmosphere of mergers, acquisitions ...

Amazon has been struggling to decrease the cost and increase the speed of the pesky “last mile,” as it defines the last leg of delivery ...