Where is Your Plumber Buying Parts? Increasingly Online
As with most retail, online sales of parts for plumbers, mechanics and other tradesmen is rapidly sucking up market share. Rather than heading to...
Retail’s Rise of the Living Dead
Imagine the feeling you have when someone at a store you frequent remembers your name. It feels good. That’s the level of service national...
Wal-Mart Expands Online Grocery Delivery
Amid increasing competition from companies like Aldi, and the potential for more from Whole Foods/Amazon, Wal-Mart is expanding its online grocery delivery service to...
Is 2017 the End for Independent Grocers?
A number of headwinds are slamming into independent grocers, including competition from Amazon, a proliferation of "Dollar Store"-type discount retailers, and increased cost cutting...
Is Wal-Mart Ready to Compete with Amazon Online?
A surge in e-commerce sales boosted Wal-Mart last quarter. After aquiring Jet.com, Bonobos.com, and beefing up Walmart.com, Wal-Mart is beginning to get some traction...
Amazon is Killing Malls, Here’s How They’re Fighting Back
America's malls are dying. Malls built around antiquated big box retailers are fighting for their lives. The big retail stores are having their lunch...
These Manufacturers are Avoiding Amazon
It turns out, being part of the largest e-commerce retail operation in America isn't something every manufacturer wants. Manufacturers looking to protect their local...
An Online Resurrection for Beaten Brick and Mortar Brands
Clothing retail brands with long histories in America's shopping malls have been under attack for a few years now. Stores like Wet Seal, American...
Is There a Defense Against My ‘Bezos Law’?
If you're a regular reader, you are familiar with my Bezos Law. The law states that for every industry Jeff Bezos enters, costs go...
Are these Iconic Food Brands Dying?
Here Money explains the impact the trend toward private label is having on some iconic American food brands.
Brands that were once household staples are...