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Retail Pricing, Fair Trade Laws, and the Rise of Walmart

posted in Featured, Ideas, Policy, Walmart on June 30, 2020 by Eric Gardner 4 Comments
Retail Pricing, Fair Trade Laws, and the Rise of Walmart

Retailers not manufacturers control retail pricing. This wasn’t always the case. Learn how politics informed commerce and ultimately enabled Walmart.

Why did Dean Foods go Bankrupt? A Porter Model Analysis reveals the truth.

posted in Companies, Dean Foods, Featured, Policy, Strategy on January 31, 2020 by Eric Gardner 3 Comments
Why did Dean Foods go Bankrupt? A Porter Model Analysis reveals the truth.

Dean Foods went from an industry leader to bankrupt in a few years. A Porter Analysis reveals that industry structure had a much larger impact than previously imagined.

Fair Trade: The arcane reason small retailers can’t compete with chains

posted in Ideas, Policy on January 8, 2020 by Eric Gardner 1 Comment
Fair Trade: The arcane reason small retailers can’t compete with chains

Fair Trade agreements allowed small retailers to compete with big. Now they’re gone.

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