Last week, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced that he will step down from his role as CEO later this year. He will be replaced by Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy. For many Americans who don’t have strong opinions about Amazon or its founder, this change will have little impact on how they view the […]
What a year. A crippling pandemic. Protests and riots. A bitterly fought election. At some point in 2020, so many things had gone wrong that it became a cliché (and even felt a little naive) to express optimism for 2021. But we are almost there, and now as newly approved COVID-19 vaccines begin to roll […]
Watching the election play out last week, many of us were reminded of and saddened by the deep divides that have become a defining feature of modern American politics. Many of us were left wondering what, if anything, can ever bring Americans closer together again. As specialists in the consumer economy, we at Consensus often […]
The presidential election dominated the headlines last week with coverage of the first debate mid-week and President Trump’s positive COVID-19 test on Friday. However, while voters and media monitor the final weeks of what has become another antagonistic and bitterly contested election, the biggest rivalry in retail – Walmart versus Amazon – also continued to […]
On March 16th, the day before the U.S.’s first statewide stay-at-home order was announced (in California), one Consumer industry observer expressed serious concern for the sporting goods industry in an article entitled “COVID-19 Isn’t Playing Games. Neither Is Anybody Else.” The writer noted that the share price of Dick’s Sporting Goods (DKS) had fallen nearly […]