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Main street ecommerce
“New online platform ‘Nearby’ wants to help small businesses compete with Amazon.” I hope they succeed! | learn more
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From plastic bottle to stretchy leggings
Content marketing is on my mind these days, and here’s a great example of a consumer brand driving great internet content to talk about their product. “Companies like Girlfriend Collective advertise leggings made out of recycled material like plastic water […]
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Marc Lore steps down as Walmart’s head of e-commerce
This began as the most expensive acquihire ($3.3 billion for Jet.com) I’ve ever seen and appears to have ended successfully. He’s leaving them in great shape as a credible competitor online. “Walmart CEO Doug McMillon credited Lore in a companywide […]
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The original home shopping frenzy
All about Sears! “As they branched out into other product lines, including sewing machines, bicycles and even cars, their catalogue steadily increased in size. By 1908 it offered more than 100,000 items over 1,400 pages, weighed four pounds and was […]
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An oral history of the world’s biggest coupon
This was fun to read! “Bed Bath & Beyond’s plus-size mailer, known as Big Blue, has made it to TV, eBay, even a mobster’s kitchen drawer. “The poor mailmen,” the company’s former marketing V.P. said, “what we did to them.”” | learn […]
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Amazon 3rd party brands raise $1B
“According to Marketplace Pulse, around $1B has been invested this year in firms that buy successful brands in the Amazon marketplace.” | learn more
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How Amazon wins
The WSJ is still salty at Amazon for using their advantages, as evidenced by the second part of the title: “by steamrolling rivals and partners.” Here’s the summary: “CEO Jeff Bezos still runs the e-commerce giant with the drive of […]
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A list of 117 retail bankruptcies and why they failed
“From executive missteps to pandemic-related shutdowns, we look at some of the biggest retail bankruptcies & companies that are going out of business in 2020.” | learn more
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The great Canadian generic brand invasion
“How Canadians got so good at making generic products that are as good—or possibly, even better—than the name-brand equivalent.” | learn more
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The state of automation in supply chains
Prologis is the largest owner, operator and developer of industrial real estate in the United States. “Three trends are aligning to drive higher levels of automation within our facilities.” | learn more