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Consumer Packaged Goods and Quality Issues on Amazon
Quality control is becoming an increasing problem for Consumer Goods manufacturers selling on Amazon.
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CPG Innovation: Why New Benefits Aren’t Going to Save Gum
How to manage a dying category.
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Reengineering Retail by Doug Stephens - A review
Reengineering Retail by Doug Stephens tries to lay out a theory that encompasses the future of retail. It fails, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth a read.
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Review: The Curse of Bigness by Tim Wu
The Curse of Bigness by Tim Wu succinctly distills a generation of anti-monopoly research into one easily digestible volume.
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Ranking the 28 Books I Read In 2018
2018 was a year of contrasts. From a personal level, things have never been better. I got promoted, bought a house, and got married. As I said, for me, things have never been better. However, America seems to be edging itself closer and closer to outright fascism. Migrant children are dying because Government agents are […]
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Review: The Fall of Wisconsin by Dan Kaufman
The Fall of Wisconsin by Dan Kaufman, analyzes how conservatives utilized Dark Money, Gerrymandering, and Weak Democratic opposition to enact a radical and dangerous conservative agenda in Wisconsin.
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Review: Hit Makers by Derek Thompson
In Hit Makers, Derek Thompson tries to explain why some ideas become popular and others fade away.
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Nixonland: How a book about Richard Nixon helps explains Donald Trump
In Nixonland, Rick Perlstein looks at the origin, rise, and decline of the Nixon administration. His general view is that there was simmering white resentment underneath the optimism and change of the Kennedy Administration.
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Retailers should look to the past to compete against Amazon
Amazon has engulfed nearly every aspect of retail and is positioned for more. Its North American sales have quintupled since 2010. Between 2015 and 2016, Amazon captured well over a third of all American online retail sales—including 43 percent in 2016. Moves to vertically integrate its supply chain by solidifying an ocean freight license, marketing in-home deliver, and […]
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Review: Devil’s Bargain by Joshua Greene
Joshua Greene’s Devil’s Bargain is ostensibly about Steve Bannon. However, the book is really about how three well-financed forces coalesced and resulted in the election of Donald Trump to President of the United States.