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still needed to develop the skills needed to assess nuances such as ripeness, color, and shape for signs of edibility or disease ...

We have institutionalized the production of these food groups, like the Burger King Whopper or Wendy’s Frosty, to easily meet ou ...

The top ten best-performing stocks of 1982 were Chrysler, Fay’s Drug, Coleco, Winnebago, Telex, Mountain Medical, Pulte Home, Ho ...

dominant. Their competence was Customer Relationship Management (CRM), before that term was invented. Shop owners knew their cli ...

longer. Advances in distribution led to fewer visits, bigger stores, more selection, and lower prices. Department stores evolved ...

technology, including the first barcode scanner, installed in a Kroger in 1967.^29 Until the sixties there were laws against ret ...

A strong economy helped. This was the prosperous eighties, and young urban professionals found in these specialty stores their h ...

decade, the market capitalization of the retail icons of the twentieth century—from Macy’s to JCPenney’s—has ranged from awful t ...

across almost every retail industry, without the traditional drag of having to build brick-and-mortar stores and hire thousands ...

a warehouse near Seattle airport and filled it in a way that robots could maneuver easily. In the early days, Amazon focused on ...

run ads on their own websites. He drew more and more partners to Amazon. Bezos broke out of the narrow world of books and DVDs a ...

Choudhury, Mawdud. “Brick & Mortar U.S. Retailer Market Value—2006 Vs Present Day.” ExecTech. Too many stores, flat wages, c ...

Yahoo! Finance. https://finance.yahoo.com/ Amazon has become the Prince of Darkness for retail, occupying a unique position—inve ...

Peterson, Hayley. “Amazon Is About to Become the Biggest Clothing Retailer in the US.” Business Insider. With the announcement o ...

to operate like a personal communicator, enabling the user to call up music, search the web, and get answers to questions. Most ...

Amazon’s unwavering focus on making consumer purchases increasingly frictionless, its facility with investor relations, and its ...

give us a few years and tens of millions of dollars... and then we’ll begin returning capital to you in the form of profits. Ama ...

control delivery systems? That way we secure an impregnable position in retail and asphyxiate our competitors. Then we can get r ...

image building as a leading-edge company. Shareholders love these stories; it makes them feel like they’re part of an exciting a ...

Bezos’s perpetual message is that it’s Amazon’s nature to swing for the fences on a regular basis. But the analogy is wrong: in ...