Business Notes: Meijier, Sonic, Holiday spending
Meijer changes plus-size racks Women’s plus-size clothing is now racked with all women’s clothing at Meijer. The plus-size market is a highlight as the…
Category: Briefs
Book Review: What was gone is found again
Trusting your judgment, learning how to take risks, believing in yourself, feeling authentic. All these phrases are the common topics of books on business…
Business history: October massacre
October has been a month marked with painful scars for the stock market. Black Tuesday – October, 28, 1929, the crash that contributed to the Great…
Great Moments in Business
Filene’s: Edward Albert Filene, born September 3, 1860, was an American merchant and philanthropist. He made the family store into a retail powerhouse,…
Could this curious trend save retail?
Street retail is declining as shoppers spend less time pounding the pavement for necessities and take their business online. That has been bad for…
Book Review ‘Creativity’ engages
“Creativity, Inc.,” by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace achieves something that many business books strive for, but that few achieve. It tells an engaging story…
Shoppers trade carts for phones
Online shoppers are leading a retail revolution, says United Parcel Service. UPS’s Pulse of the Online Shopper Survey found that, for the first time in…
Book Review: Don’t ignore that man behind the curtain
The guy behind the curtain is the wizard indeed, but he doesn’t seem to be a firebreathing monster. Charles Koch, the leader of one of America’s most…
Virtual Assistant software aims to make work smoother
Smartphone helpers like Siri and Cortana have already streamlined travel, appointments, news, and other information. Now a new line of virtual assistant…
Author: Goods of the world defy gravity
Consider today’s global civilization. You see it every single day from your morning cup of coffee to your iPhone. Yet, it is largely invisible. According…