Salmon are famous for how they courageously and tirelessly swim upstream to meet their destiny in their generational spawning grounds. Then they die and their rotting carcasses are eaten by a variety of creatures. I’m wondering if the tale of the new online retail startup Jet.com will be a modern, digital retelling of the salmon […]
Jeff Bezos’ Amazon almost never reports a profit, yet the company is on solid financial ground, still popular with investors, and considered the leader in e-commerce and a variety of other tech sectors. Further, Bezos brushes aside any questions or criticism of Amazon’s lack of profitability by touting the company’s incredible cash flow. And this is […]
Retail strategies to snare the impulse buyer have been a major part of the shopping experience since forever and a recent pact between Twitter and Amazon is pushing impulse buys deeply into the virtual world of social media. Imagine this scenario: You’re perusing your Twitter feed and you come across a sponsored tweet featuring a […]
The adage, “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket,” holds true on every day of the year except Easter. And for many small businesses, it’s advice that should be considered quite seriously—especially in this digital age when product life cycles and customer sensibilities change more quickly than the leaves in Vermont come October. Hollywood […]
Is anyone shocked to discover that consumers opt to do business with the seller offering the lower net price when they are shopping for a particular item? If that was the only thing a recent Ohio State survey found, it wouldn’t be news. But this particular research was looking at the impact of sales tax […]