Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 20, 2012

Incidentally, Costco employees sell twice as much merchandise per square foot of retail space as their nearest competitor – Sam’s Club! Practicing forgiveness for well-intentioned mistakes is necessary for innovation to flourish. Meeting “guidance” by managing earnings is the standard. Even part-time workers receive benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Private label (retail-branded merchandise) has been growing for years – since Sainsbury and Marks & Spencer invented it over 100 years ago – increasing in quality and forcing down brand premiums. So with such a track record of strategic innovation, why has Tesco been blindsided by the hard discounters like Germany’s Aldi and Lidl?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

But how should sophisticated marketers and merchandisers use them? Are there clever ways to raise prices, minimize access or otherwise manage those expensive older, single customers and high-maintenance, low-purchase young females? to innovatively, cost-effectively and profitably segment/discriminate their customers and clients.

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