What did I tell you a couple of weeks ago? I’ll remind you. I said the reason Amazon was closing most of their physical retail properties, including its bookstores, after years of fiddling around (testing is what they would call […]
As Amazon Closes Bookstores, B&N Bounces Back: A Sweet Irony Read More »
The quasi-metaphor, “Nero fiddles while Rome burns,” refers to Amazon fiddling around with test stores while two of their fiercest competitors, Walmart and Target, continue to gain both on the ground and in the digital air, so to speak. And
Amazon Fiddles Around While Losing on the Ground Read More »
Just as Amazon and the internet in general continue to disrupt and transform the legacy publishing and broadcast industries, we are in the early stages of a major disruption of the legacy world of advertising. Amazon and Walmart are two
Can Walmart Connect Threaten Amazon’s Lead in the Advertising Business? Read More »
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
Amazon’s Gift to Shopify Read More »
Is Amazon a suitor for Kohl’s? If not yet, perhaps it should be. And maybe Kohl’s is entertaining the possibility. Back in 2017, I stated that Kohl’s was launching its first few Amazon in-store shops as tests to drive younger
Is Amazon a Kohl’s Suitor? Read More »
