Archives tagged: retail
In this winter of our discontent, where survival seems to be what everybody’s trying to do, it seems remarkable that for lack of empathy – people and companies are jeopardizing valuable relationships. One wonders if it’s simply lack of feeling, plain stupidity or incredible arrogance.
More Groceries are the top item on which U.S. consumers are spending their savings from lower gas prices, ahead of putting the money in savings, holiday gift buying and paying off credit cards, according to the results of nationwide research from retail analytics firm Precima.
More While I never lived through the Great Depression, I studied it. If you are looking for parallels between then and now, there…
More The world of turnarounds is one of extremes. At one end of the spectrum are the salvage operations where wrecked businesses are…
More Try this thought experiment. You are the CMO for a top telco. Your company’s portfolio includes the expected assortment of wireless and…
More In a landmark case, the US Supreme Court removed a barrier to vertical price floors in a 5-4 ruling on Leegin v.…
More With experience, professional pricers instinctively learn to laud price increases and denigrate price decreases. Sometimes though, it is a good idea to…
More Is GM reverting to MSRPs and high promotional discounts, or is it serious about its strategy to focus on value? We put…
More Complimentary analysis spreadsheet provided courtesy of the Wiglaf Journal. At a fast-growing entrepreneurial firm last month, I found myself casually drifting into…
More Novices to marketing often think that cutting prices to grow market share is a sound strategy. Somewhere between high school and the…
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