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As the bookstore chain mounts a comeback, it’s breaking a cardinal rule of corporate branding and store design: consistency. (2023)
As tenants stop paying and shrink their offices, commercial real estate is cratering. (2020)
The sector faces a shake-up Investors have loaded up on commercial property. Now they face a reckoning... (2020)
The genius of Amazon - The pandemic has shown that Amazon is essential—but vulnerable Jeff Bezos's vision of a world shopping online is coming t... (2020)
The grocer started communicating with its Chinese counterparts in January and was running tabletop simulations a few weeks later. (But nothing prep... (2020)
Crate and Barrel, Nordstrom and Whole Foods are among major retailers now accepting Bitcoin via a project backed by the Winklevoss twins. “The r... (2019)
Indigo is expanding to the United States with its new model for how a big bookstore chain can thrive in the era of online retail. (2019)
Starting today, Instagrammers can buy products from 20 brands including Nike, Burberry, and Warby Parker, using the new in-app checkout feature. Th... (2019)
Amazon.com Inc. continues to struggle in the $840 billion grocery market, more than a year after it spooked the industry with the $13.7 billion acq... (2018)
Big-box retailers nationwide are slashing their property taxes through a legal loophole known as "dark store theory." For the towns that rely on th... (2018)
Organic carrots: not worth your whole paycheck. (2018)
Since the Whole Foods sale a year ago, traditional grocers have agreed to a variety of deals and partnerships. The latest investment is a Japanese ... (2018)
Casper has snagged a whopping $249.5 million in VC funding. But Saatva and Amerisleep believe there is value in slower, self-funded growth. Who wil... (2018)
Target Corp. agreed to purchase grocery-delivery startup Shipt Inc. for $550 million, stepping up its challenge to Amazon.com Inc. by speeding the ... (2017)
New York Times, 2017: "The shopping extravaganza — China’s version of Black Friday and Amazon’s Prime Day — was a test of logistics networks and r... (2017)
Bloomberg, 2017: "The spillover from retailer debt will flow far and wide across the economy. The reason isn’t as simple as Amazon.com Inc. tak... (2017)
Behind the bubbly cashiers in Hawaiian shirts, craveable snacks, and bargain-basement prices are questionable business practices that have many foo... (2024)
Fanjoy is one of the top influencer merchandise companies, creating products for digital stars like David Dobrik, Tana Mongeau, and Adelaine Morin. (2024)
Amazon’s new Buy With Prime announced the arrival of Amazon Logistics as a Service, and is a big red flag for Shopify. (2022)
Inventa is a B2B marketplace that connects brands and independent retailers in Brazil, helping a brand reach new customers and the independent reta... (2022)
With gas prices climbing up, you may think station owners are getting greedy. But the economics behind the pump tell a different story. (2021)
With demand for bikes and bike parts high, Pacific Northwest Components quit Amazon in order to better supply independent shops and help customers ... (2021)
Snap has acquired Vertebrae, an AR shopping company that helps brands turn their goods into 3D assets, which could help Snapchat become an augmente... (2021)
A visual explainer of the numbers behind America’s ubiquitous bargain-basement chains. (2021)
Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy. There are 32 million small businesses and over 400,000 independently owned restaurants in the Un... (2021)
A few months later, as they expanded into categories like pins and Pokémon cards, the company started to build out a live shopping platform — think... (2021)
Vestiaire Collective announced a new funding round. The company has raised $216 million, or €178 million — it has reached a valuation above $1 bill... (2021)
Want to lift retail takings? Get rid of cars. That's the conclusion from a new report from Transport for London. (2020)
Shopify’s Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) for the second quarter was $30.1 billion compared to eBay’s $27.1 billion. For the first time, Shopify pro... (2020)
Facebook Shops are good for Shopify merchants, but bad for Shopify; the answer is to push more into the real world. (2020)
Shein says it’s able to make affordable apparel by monitoring user behavior to predict customer demand and producing items in small quantities. The... (2023)
Amazon is the king of fast delivery – it pioneered the free two-day shipping model customers have come to expect. As competitors like Walmart and T... (2023)
Liquid Death founder and CEO Mike Cessario spent years figuring out how to make water cool. Now his brand is valued at $700 million. After attendin... (2023)
When Dani Reiss took the reins as CEO of Canada Goose at age 27, he was running a company that brought in $2.2 million a year in revenue. Today, th... (2023)
Aldi’s ‘no-frills’ strategy has helped make it one of the cheapest and the fastest growing grocery stores in the U.S. For the past decade, it’s bee... (2023)
Sweetgreen’s fast-casual $15 salads have a cult following. But even as the salad chain has sold millions of these bowls to its customers, net profi... (2023)
Outfitted with cameras and sensors, autonomous inventory robots can verify price signs and look for out-of-stock items. Inventory is one of the big... (2023)
Why Everywhere in the US is Starting to Look the Same (2022)
Chick-fil-A has built its rapid growth on the popularity of its chicken sandwich. But its unconventional approach to business has helped make it th... (2022)
Starbucks, a $124.4 billion company, trails only McDonald’s as the largest restaurant chain by market capitalization. In this video, WSJ’s Heather ... (2022)
John Oliver discusses how Coronavirus is impacting the US workforce, from mass unemployment to the problems faced by essential workers. Connect wit... (2020)
In October 2018, Kmart's parent company, Sears Holdings, filed for bankruptcy. Kmart first filed for bankruptcy in 2002, making this its second tim... (2018)
In his now annual state-of-innovation talk at the a16z Summit in November 2018, Andreessen Horowitz’ Benedict Evans walks through where we are now ... (2018)
August 1st, 2018, 3:57 AM EDT Tina Sharkey, Brandless Inc.'s chief executive officer, discusses the company's business strategy with Bloomberg's... (2018)
The mall was America’s third place — for better or for worse. Our lives are lived in 1 of 3 places, the home, ... (2018)
When did Black Friday start, and why do we dislike it so much? Good Mythical Morning Episode 209! SUBSCRIBE for daily episodes: http://bit.ly/subrl... (2017)
Hershey knows how to get you to make impulse purchases, if you're shopping at a store. But as people shift to online shopping, Hershey is trying to... (2018)
Shopify's Tobi Lütke knows the secret to massive scale. It's be a platform. Build a virtuous cycle and you’ll emerge the biggest winner of all. (2020)
Allbirds chief executive Joey Zwillinger on how Amazon copied his company's footwear. Amazon is known for watching what retail products gain tra... (2019)
First, Jeff Glueck, CEO of Foursquare, talks with Jason about splitting the product into two separate apps, bridging the digital & the physical, an... (2018)
Container ships, supply chains, and retail This podcast rerun -- first recorded over two and a half years ago, now being rerun as one of our eve... (2017)
with Ryan Caldbeck, Jeff Jordan, and Sonal Chokshi (2019)