Success only runs one direction....
Yet again, I’ve been caught cringing when someone extols the virtues of “buy local.”
If that hasn’t shocked a few of you, well…nothing will. For those of you on the floor, please take a deep breath, rally around, and hear me out. Pretty sure you’ll end up agreeing with me in a moment. [click here to continue…]
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Join me in absolute and unfathomable shock that Swoozie’s is being resurrected. Like many of you, I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact they (a) filed bankruptcy: (b) left an extraordinary list of vendors, reps, and landlords holding the bag (with a hole in the bottom instead of cash): and (c) are now reopening several locations as “The real Swoozies.” [click here to continue…]
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Independent retailers know that what you find in a big box isn’t always what it appears to be. Might seem the same from the outside, but how many consumers realize you really can’t judge a book (or gift or electronics item) by its cover? [click here to continue…]
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From the currently running Walmart “game day” television commercials:
If there’s a better price out there, [we’ll] even match it.
Translated: We aren’t the cheapest.
Walmart’s allure has always been cost savings. Anyone who pays attention wandering through the narrow aisles, however, recognizes “strategic pricing,” where some high demand items may be lower in price, but an enormous percentage of items are not. They’re either MSRP…or higher. It’s all about coaxing ‘em in on cheap toilet paper, then making up the difference in the rest of the shopping list. [click here to continue…]
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If the original announcement of big boxes Wal-Mart and Target capitalizing on KISS and Pearl Jam didn’t make your skin crawl, this latest chapter will. Never in my life have I imagined seeing (or wanted to see) a Gene Simmons or Paul Stanley Mr. Potato Head doll.
Seriously. I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried. Read about it here.
This is just fourteen shades of wrong….
Note: Mr. Potato Head is a registered trademark of Hasbro, Inc.
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Is it just me, or does the fact WalMart is pinning their hopes on (fake) Kiss and Target is pinning theirs to Pearl Jam seem just this side of bone rattling? Just can’t wrap my head around two historically anti-establishment bands actually penning deals with two verrrrry establishment mainstream big box discount retailers.
I’m pretty sure if Kurt Cobain was still alive, this would be anything but a done deal. Yikes.
Read the horror here.
Photo credit: Yui Mok/PA; taken of Kurt Cobain shrine on Oxford Street, London.
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