With digitally native darlings Warby Parker and Allbirds preparing to make their initial public offerings this week and later this fall, respectively, the companies’ regulatory filings point to the return of a recent trend in consumer retail: clicks to bricks. Clicks to bricks, or digitally native brands opening brick and mortar stores, was building momentum […]
The rapid spread of the highly contagious COVID-19 Delta variant has grabbed national headlines and put a dent in people’s optimism that the pandemic will soon be over in the U.S. According to the New York Times, as of this morning, case counts in the U.S. are continuing to climb rapidly, with the seven-day rolling […]
Many of us have watched with awe as Amazon’s Prime Day has gone from a new holiday conjured from thin air in 2015 to one of the largest annual ecommerce shopping events in the U.S. This year’s 48-hour Prime Day, which wrapped up last Tuesday, generated over $11 billion in total U.S. ecommerce sales (including […]
Two weeks ago, as I stood in line for my first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine, snaking my way through the aisles of one of the many CVS stores in and near my town, I couldn’t help but think about my surroundings. Two of the most inescapable (and partly related) features of the retail world […]
Supply chains for many commodities and products are more out of whack today than they were a year ago. This is surprising to those of us who thought that over the course of a year of pandemic life, things would be more sorted out. But here we are today, and a number of items are […]