Depot's Cheesy
The Back to School TV ads season has peaked. The best commercial by far we feel is the Target campaign. The worst undoubtedly Office Depot's ridiculous attempt to play a Shakespearian actor serving a school girl with pens. Cheeeeeeesy in the extreme!
Millennials make
A CouponFollow survey also finds millennials (under 40yrs) make 36% of their total purchases using mobile devices, up 20% from 2017. Plus, 64% of the millennial online shoppers make half or more or their online purchases from Amazon. We analyse the survey and draw some broader conclusions....
Amazon's CRaP
Amazon has disproved the theory that trees don't grow the sky. However, the strategy evolving over the past year indicates a weakening of its rapid growth momentum. The customer centric champion is showing signs of maximising short term profits at consumers' and vendors' expense. We discuss...Updated
Remote workers
Inc. magazine research reported by Brian de Haaff maintains that remote/home based workers outperform office based workers & even create better teamwork? This flies in the face of a greater need for collaboration, closer communication & cultural team building drives. Updated
Amazon loses
Just like web giants e.g. Facebook & Google that have failed to tackle misinformation on their platforms, Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police 3rd party resellers on its webstore WSJ investigates and we comment on its business supplies offer
Printmkrs plunge.
All the Japanese printermakers viz. Canon, Epson, Konica, Kyocera, Ricoh & Brother continued to report serious demand declines. Few have successfully converted to new digital market opportunities. We discuss the future.... Updated for HP & Lenovo results today
Put Employees
CEO's from the Business Roundtable, including the leaders of Apple, Amazon argued that companies must invest in employees and deliver value to customers in pursuit of greater shareholder value. We discuss a NYTimes article by David Gelles and David Yaffe-Bellany
Recession Risk?
The US Administration & supporting media continue to promote a strong economy. This runs contrary to CEO reports from leading consumer staples makers & slowdown in growth of major retailers since Q3'18. Are we set for a continued demand slowdown or recession? We discuss... Updated today
Market is about
Over the past 25yrs OP dealers have graduated to the FM supplies market via JanSan supplies. Their 'cherry picking' commodity pricing approach has largely failed. Time to shift to a specialist hygiene & safety supplies service, exemplified best by progressive resellers. We discuss their successes....Updated
T r u s t m e....
Microsoft's latest Surface TV ad makes a pointed attack on the Apple iPad. These rivals have a history of sniping each other but the latest dodgy 'Mac Book' character stoops very low indeed...
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