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Facebook’s “Marketplace”
Inching or Sprinting To Social Commerce? Not long after Facebook was launched in 2004 as a social network, retail industry experts were bantering about whether ...
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Personalization! The Next and Biggest Thing
Bring It to Me, Just for Me, New, Now & More Often Listen to this. And, listen with great attention to what I’m about to ...
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Walmart + Jet.com Can Crush Amazon
In April 2014 I wrote, Walmart Can Crush Amazon. I focused on all of the competitive advantages Walmart has over Amazon. and if leveraged, implementing ...
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Is Jeff Bezos the New Ron Johnson on Pricing?
In 2012, JC Penney’s new CEO, Ron Johnson, made a huge bet. With a grand strategy to fundamentally transform JC Penney’s business model, his opening ...
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Eddie (no vision) Lampert: A Century Late and an Idea Short
What’s old is new again. It’s back to the future. Mobile phones are the new stores. These and many other metaphors reflect how the technology ...
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Seasonal Line-Cycles:Going, Going…Gone
Zara’s Process Innovation Trumps Product Innovation Zara was first in envisioning what the newly emerging techno-empowered 21st-century consumer would be demanding of the fashion world. ...
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Is Kohl’s Flatlining?
Brilliant Strategists Blindsided? Since 2012, it would appear that Kohl’s might be flatlining (which is drastically dire especially in medical terms). Revenues grew a meager ...
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You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide
Scraping the Bottom for Another Share You are about to open the door into the “house of horrors.” If you’re already in a bad mood, ...
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