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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,...

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,...

Author - Breakthrough Retailing, How a bleeding orange culture can change everything! December 17, 2024 Achievement -- Delta Lifetime 360 Degree Membership – All It Takes Is 5 Million Miles! On a recent flight to South Africa, the Delta pilot came back to the...

Author - Breakthrough Retailing, How a bleeding orange culture can change everything! October 28, 2024 The Dangerous Race for SKUs - Amazon has over 9.7 million sellers on its system and adds thousands more daily – How is it possible to do proper due diligence on the...

Author - Breakthrough Retailing, How a bleeding orange culture can change everything! January 22, 2025 Take a look at these selected quotes from the highly respected Economist Magazine’s article entitled: “Tariffs Will Harm America, Not Induce A Manufacturing Rebirth...

In the Wall Street Journal on June 25, 2022 Christopher Mims's article titled 'The Surprising Reason Your Amazon Searches Are Returning More Confusing Results Than Ever".  This is his introduction to the article: "If you want to be reminded just how tiny you are, you...

The logic for prolonged inflation was explained by Charles Goodhart, former UK Central Banker: "He argued that the low inflation since the 1990s wasn’t so much the result of astute central-bank policies, but rather the addition of hundreds of millions of inexpensive...

What has been the impact of all the increased tariff taxes on the flow of imported products to the U.S.? The answer is that imports have continued in increase with the result shown in the chart above showing the growing trade deficit for the the U.S.  What is the...

While retailers rush to increase their gross on-line sales, cost escalate. According to Chain Store Age, The National Retail Federation reports that 20.8% of all on-line sales in 2021 were returned. Further, every $100 in returns has an average cost of $10.30 to the...

Percentage-off sales never build loyalty but can destroy price image. It is never wise to tell customers that there is a good time to buy and a bad time to buy. It is not good to refer to your normal everyday prices as the high price example. Comparison pricing should...