“One day, we will eventually see Amazon.com in the physical world, either with stores or kiosks,” I wrote that in my book Amazon.com: Get Big Fast in 2000. At the time, that proposition sounded crazy. I wrote, “But stranger things […]
In 2019, bookstores’ revenues were a shade above what they were 25 years ago, only $10.6 billion, falling from a high of $17.2 billion in 2007, according to the Census data. Amazon doesn’t report its book sales, but Statista puts […]
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 the right strategies, over time, (and given the time), they could beat Amazon at its […]
The leadership team at Walmart failed to develop a positioning strategy for the two brands. It appeared that the strategy was simply to operate the two brands separately on the front end (the consumer facing functions), while integrating the back-end […]
Pardon my ‘60s pot metaphors of late. There’s just maniacal, seemingly drug-induced behavior happening and it seems to be going viral across many industries. In particular, I think there’s a lot of legalized pot being passed around among Internet start-ups, […]
It has been credibly rumored that, following 20 years of driving book stores out of business, Amazon is now planning to get into the bookstore business. The CEO of mall operations for General Growth Properties, Sandeep Mathrani, commented to “The […]
“Personal Commerce” and Preemptive Distribution There are two strategic concepts that are imperative for any consumer-facing business to achieve success in the 21st century: personalization and preemptive distribution. As former Apple executive, Ron Johnson’s Genius Bar creation and Apple’s entire […]
There’s a smell of desperation in the air and it seems to be coming from the direction of Bentonville, Arkansas. This malodorous scent is Walmart’s plan to hit as many as 10,000 suppliers with warehousing fees, product placement fees for […]
“The supply chain for mass-produced garments is a very lengthy one—we can predict weather better than we can predict what fashions will sell.” Janice Wang
Walmart\’s bid (with Microsoft) to buy TikTok, the video-sharing social networking service, is a way for the juggernaut to continue to compete with Amazon. A few short years ago Walmart lagged behind in the digital space and was constantly outpaced […]
