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The Case Against Self-Checkouts
The Associated Press News reported on an interesting poll this week showing that 70% of people prefer a hybrid store that allows you to choose between…
Gad Allon
Aug 23, 2021
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“While My Inventory Gently Whips”
Last week, Target announced that its profits will take a short-term hit as it takes several steps to get rid of excess inventory, from marking down…
Gad Allon
Jun 13
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It’s about Time: DoorDash to Start Penalizing for Accuracy and Tardiness
The WSJ had an interesting article last week revealing what changes in the new contract between DoorDash and McDonald’s. The first change concerns the…
Gad Allon
Feb 21
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What happens When Amazon Buys Too Much Prime Space
When serving as Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos liked to advocate for managers within Amazon to make decisions that were easy to reverse. He would call these…
Gad Allon
May 2
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Self Driving Cars: The Future is Here(!?)
I spent last week in San Francisco as part of the M&T program’s Immersive Week. During this week, the entire sophomore class, along with the faculty of…
Gad Allon
May 23
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Did Peloton Ever Have a Moat?
Last week, Peloton announced that its co-founder and CEO would be stepping down to become Executive Chair, while also announcing significant layoffs…
Gad Allon
Feb 14
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Starbucks: The Rule of Thirds
Howard Shultz is returning as Starbucks’ interim CEO for the third time, following the retirement of the firm’s last CEO, Kevin Johnson. The last time…
Gad Allon
Apr 25
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DoorDash Employees Forced to Deliver Food: Is it a Gimmick?
A few weeks ago, Business Insider had an article on how a DoorDash employee making $400K, complained about having to make one food delivery every month…
Gad Allon
Jan 10
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Shirts Off to 'Proper' Quality Management!
I don’t have many rules regarding the way I write these weekly posts, but every time two topics I like collide, I have to write about the event that led…
Gad Allon
Jun 20
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Bus and Spoke
American Airlines made an interesting announcement earlier this week: for certain routes, it will be putting passengers on a bus rather than a plane…
Gad Allon
Apr 18
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Can we still “Contain” Holiday Shipping this Year?
It’s Labor Day weekend in the US and Rosh Hashanah is on Tuesday, so you might not be thinking about Christmas and Hannuka just yet... But maybe you…
Gad Allon
Sep 6, 2021
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Priority Queues and Skiing: A Slippery Slope
There are very few things that give me more joy over the winter than family skiing excursions, and there are very few topics that I enjoy teaching and…
Gad Allon
Nov 8, 2021
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