What if the current price increases American consumers are experiencing are not temporary, caused by inflationary pressures, but instead are signs of a once every 70- to 100-year massive economic recalibration? Free Range Pricing We saw this happen in the […]
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Forget about factory worker, coal miner and taxi driver jobs being in jeopardy. They are nothing compared to the emerging threat to the jobs of people working in retailing. By most counts there are slightly more than four million people
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When Covid-19 first hit the U.S., the effects were fast and furious, affecting all sectors of the economy in 2020. Those who were self-employed and working dropped by 20 percent between April 2020 and April 2019. But the pandemic also
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For the record: Amazon, based in Seattle, WA, is a global, primarily online marketplace which sells vendors’ and their own goods to consumers. Shopify, headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, is a worldwide technology platform that primarily provides the tools, (software) and
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More people adopted pets during the pandemic than ever before, and in a category where humans are championing brands based on their pet’s perceived experiences, positive and abundant online ratings and reviews become critical to capturing new mindshare and building
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The numbers are in, and 2021 consumer holiday spending did not disappoint. In fact, 2021 holiday sales knocked many analysts’ projections out of the water. U.S. consumer spending on credit and debit cards from the week of Thanksgiving through the
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It’s 2022. Why am I having to worry about whether the Pantene Mist Behaving Dry Conditioning Mist I have tucked in a bathroom drawer, or the Neutrogena Ultra Sheer aerosol sunscreen my husband spritzes on before tennis, are giving us
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Retailers and consumers alike have made supply chain a household conversation. With favorite brands missing from the shelves and out of stock messages showering the websites, all of us went into a pre-holiday spiral. News of offshore containers, late seasonal
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A year ago, Kohl’s beat back a campaign by four activist investment funds to unseat its board and shake up its operations. The activists settled for smaller changes at the board level: adding three new directors, creating a standing finance
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Barbie may have struggled with math in the 1990s, but now she is minting NFT’s and logging some entries to the blockchain. Barbie’s latest luxury collaboration is with Balmain, but don’t expect to find a decked-out plastic doll in the
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