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The Retail Battleground: The Convergence of Automation, Outsourcing, and Labor Laws
A couple of weeks ago, Amazon announced the termination of its “Just Walk Out” checkouts in its grocery stores. But if you’re thinking that this is a…
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From Expansion to Exasperation: How Scalability Became the Consulting World’s Achilles’ Heel
Earlier last week, Bloomberg reported that McKinsey, the firm synonymous with an MBA, is laying off workers: “The management-consulting giant McKinsey…
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The Cocoa Supply Chain: On Monocropping and Financial Hedging
Cocoa prices are increasing, which some people say is the worst crisis in the global chocolate industry. As usual, when it comes to supply chains, there…
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Reddit and Scaling Laws
Different people have different hobbies. Mine are coffee, running, and finding patterns in how firms scale (don’t judge). But very seldom do I find…
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On Bags, Fanny Packs, and Airlines
A couple of weeks ago, the WSJ published an interesting article on how airlines are slowly changing their policies regarding the handling of checked and…
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Uber is Finally … Profitable: What Drove This?
Back in 2019, in a popular article, the Economist had predicted that Uber will never be profitable. The article “Can Uber ever make money?” outlined the…
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Wendy’s Flips on Dynamic Pricing
Early last week, the CEO of Wendy’s announced that the burger chain intends to allocate close to $20 million toward implementing digital menu boards…
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Fast Dining: Marc Lore’s Wonder in the Shift from Food Trucks to Food Halls
The last time I wrote about Wonder, I mentioned their somewhat innovative model of using food trucks to deliver meals while also prepping the food at…
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Amazon’s Strategic Moves to Counter Temu’s Competitive Edge: The BuyBox Innovation
The Information features a fascinating article on how, perhaps for the first time in quite some time, Amazon’s primacy as the go-to place for e-commerce…
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Rethinking the Retail Apocalypse: A Closer Look at Retail’s Evolution
Over the past few weeks, there’s been considerable discussion regarding Walmart’s investment in expanding its number of stores. This topic is…
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Gig Economy, AI, and LLM: Friends or Foes?
Fiverr, one of the marquee players of the online gig economy, announced several product improvements earlier this week. Fiverr is integrating AI to…
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Vroom Goes Bust: A Cautionary Tale in the Fast Lane of Online Used-Car Sales
Last week, Vroom, once a promising player in the online used-car sales market, announced a somewhat surprising shift in their business strategy: The…
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