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Flooding the Zone – Smart or Bad Management?
Jim Inglis Author - Breakthrough Retailing, How a bleeding orange culture can change everything! January 30, 2025 This week our government is giving us a great lesson in management or, more likely mismanagement, as more and more balls are thrown in the air! I am...
Walmart Thrives While Target Simply Survives
Customers and Wall Street Agree – Target Underperforms! Jim Inglis Author - Breakthrough Retailing, How a bleeding orange culture can change everything! March 8, 2025 The Issue: There is a lesson here folks – The successful growing retailer will always be...
Interview With European Trade Journal – DIY Magazine
Jim Inglis Interview With DIY Magazine Jim Inglis Author - Breakthrough Retailing, How a bleeding orange culture can change everything! February 20, 2025 DIY Magazine, based in Germany,is the leading trade journal for the Do It Yourself retail business. Here is my...
Retail Media??
Retail Media Showing It’s Dark Side? Jim Inglis Author - Breakthrough Retailing, How a bleeding orange culture can change everything! April 18, 2025 Forbes Magazine’s April 11 Article Discloses the Retail Media Problem: The Truthful Fact: Major retailers are in love...
Free Trade Improves Standard of Living for All
World-Wide Trade is a Two Way Street Jim Inglis Author - Breakthrough Retailing, How a bleeding orange culture can change everything! May 23, 2025 The Latest Tariff Threat: President Donald Trump reignited trade tensions on Friday, threatening a 50% tariff on all...
Private Label Merchandising Starts With Establishing Quality Specifications
The “No Problem” Problem Jim Inglis Author - Breakthrough Retailing, How a bleeding orange culture can change everything! May 21, 2025 History – During the early days of The Home Depot, [1983 – 1996] I was involved in the sourcing and managing of our direct purchasing...
Gaining Market Must Always Be The Goal
10K Reports Show Declines Show More Downs Than Ups Jim Inglis Author - Breakthrough Retailing, How a bleeding orange culture can change everything! June 3, 2025 HBS Dealer evaluated 29 public companies serving the U.S. Hardware and Building Supply Industry. They found...
You Cannot Get Rich Off a Poor Neighbor
Hey Folks – Let’s Keep Our Priorities Straight Jim Inglis Author - Breakthrough Retailing, How a bleeding orange culture can change everything! June 28, 2025 Todays Headline – We are now told that negotiations on improving trade relations with Canada have been...
One More Nail in the DTC Online Coffin
Author - Breakthrough Retailing, How a bleeding orange culture can change everything! January 6, 2025 Rich McMahon of cda Ventures recently posted; “As we wrap up another holiday shopping season, retailers are bracing for an unprecedented wave of returns. In 2025,...
Yes, We Have No Coffee – Or Anything Else!
Author - Breakthrough Retailing, How a bleeding orange culture can change everything! January 4, 2025 THE STORY: Our family of 6 people were on our way to the Denver airport and decided that we had time for some coffee and pastry at Starbucks in Idaho Springs,...