Amazon\’s announcement of its first physical store opening on Manhattan\’s 34th Street is not a surprise to me, as I predicted it four years ago in the first edition of my co-authored book, The New Rules of Retail, published in […]
Eddie “fast buck” Lampert is squeezing the proverbial turnip for more cash — as the musicians aboard the sinking “Titanic” are now truly playing “Nearer My God to Thee.” The cash he’s squeezing out is his own, in the form […]
Fort Worth is Texas’s best-kept secret. In the shadow of Dallas, its more prominent neighbor, it sits quietly with an elegant downtown containing good retail, interesting restaurants and some very well-respected small museums. It is a community of what passes […]
With Some 65,000 Quarterbacks I wrote an article in 2004 in which I compared Nordstrom with the Green Bay Packers at their peak between 1958 and 1968 under coach Vince Lombardi. Guess what? Lombardi’s spirit lives on within the Nordstrom […]
[…] they’d better get at it quick or risk playing catch up when the competition unveils their own Alara X or books Shudu and Lil Miquela Sousa for their next major advertising campaign. Consumers demand a completely new Covid-era store redesign. […]
[…] online retailer, has recently dipped its toes into the world of brick-and-mortar retailing. It started with the opening of Amazon bookstores. Amazon could soon open food stores by 2018. It’s rumored that the first stores will open in Seattle and […]
[…] Amazon is rumored to be opening a physical store in Seattle to test the sales and experience of its Kindles, books, and other electronic gadgetry (inspired by Apple’s success), eBay has been opening physical “pop-up” stores, in London, New York […]
[…] Shiatsu Stick, which at $12 may be the sleeper bargain of the lot. And of course, you can buy Kondo\’s books, individually or in sets. All together the line totals about 150 items and shipping appears to be free on […]
How ironic it would be if the same decisions that drove Circuit City into extinction ultimately will do the same to Best Buy? Circuit City was a poster child for customer service, until it wasn’t. They cut costs by minimalizing […]
[…] as Walmart, Target and almost every general merchandising national chain was in 2000 when Amazon first began to move beyond books and CDs. Right now, this cashierless tech is just in the grocery chain but like those first books and […]
