Target now sources 80% of its online orders from stores, not warehouses, shares the Wall St. Journal.
Stores have less foot traffic (foot traffic to U.S. stores fell about 6.2% on Black Friday ) and more online shopping (online sales reached $7.4 billion on Black Friday, up from $6.2 billion last year), forcing stores to convert 'floor' employees into roles dealing with e-commerce and shipping. "At the Brooklyn store around 80 workers handle internet orders, collecting products from shelves or...
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November 12, 2019
November 12, 2019
Amazon has opened an instant portal between our kids and Chinese goods that fail U.S. safety and environmental standards. Today's Wall St. Journal shares that Amazon is helping Chinese sellers upload a new item every 1/50th of a second—resulting in a tsunami of questionable products flooding our homes.
Excessive lead in your kid’s dinner plate? A motorcycle helmet for your son that cracks easily? Get it on Amazon.
One may ask: how could a Chinese-speaking person be expected to know U.S. laws? ...
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November 3, 2019
November 3, 2019
Happy to see Anna Weatherley and Deshoulieres in this weekend’s Wall St. Journal.
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October 26, 2019
October 26, 2019
Wonder how prices are so low on Amazon? Yes, many items are stolen (at the time of purchase) or counterfeit, but there’s another reason: they’re bought after you buy them using stolen credit cards. In other words, they’re stolen after the ‘legit’ purchase. Recently, a retailer reported that it was being asked to ship Versace items to far off locations, only to have the credit card holder say it didn’t order them. They say their credit card was stolen. The reason the scammer ordered the goods ...
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September 1, 2019
September 1, 2019
Amazon is selling products that may kill people, and Amazon doesn't seem too interested in stopping it shares the Wall St. Journal:
Be cautious when buying: - Children or baby items - Electronics - Products ...
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August 29, 2019
August 29, 2019
Amazon and Chinese companies have teamed up to bypass Main Street and ship goods directly to doorsteps. This is hurting American manufacturing as well as local city governments. To accomplish this, they're misleading Americans by putting out press releases that cherry-pick statistics.
Follow these 3 steps to see the issue at hand:
1. In an Amazon press release last week, Amazon claimed:
"Independent third-party sellers – primarily small and medium-sized businesses – ...
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July 18, 2019
July 18, 2019
✨Anne Neilson Home ✨ Delivering FAITH with flourish: Creating Art and Lifestyle products that provide one-of-a-kind beauty and quality giving to a Higher Purpose. Choose from Scripture Cards, Luxury Candles, Journals and Books.??
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This month’s HFN magazine shares a letter that I wrote to the editor. In the letter, I encourage the industry to team up and push back against Amazon and big online entities in order to ensure our long-term survival. I welcome your feedback on it.
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Fifty-four percent of people looking for a product go directly to Amazon.com, shared a front page story in this week’s Wall St. Journal. This 54 percent is not good for nearly anyone in our ...
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May 9, 2019
May 9, 2019
Amazon is using devices to spy on kids according to today’s Wall St. Journal.
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April 16, 2019
April 16, 2019
Only Tiffany & Co. could buy a full page in the Wall St. Journal magazine to advertise one glass. :)
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April 15, 2019
April 15, 2019
Facebook is filled with so many fake ads that Dr. Oz (yes, that doctor) has to write a letter to the Wall St Journal.
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July 20, 2018
July 20, 2018
Amazon is awash in fakes reports today’s Wall St Journal. Recently, I looked at an Amazon page selling Anna Weatherley. The page said the seller was “Anna Weatherley.” It wasn’t. If you clicked this name, it showed the seller as someone else. Why would the page mislead the shopper?
My conclusion is Amazon has a shady website, and it helps shady sellers sometimes sell fakes.
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July 9, 2018
July 9, 2018
Nice to see Vista Alegre featured in this past weekend’s Wall St Journal.
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June 24, 2018
June 24, 2018
Nice to see Bridge partner Michael Aram featured in today’s Wall St Journal.
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June 2, 2018
June 2, 2018
Amazon is a black widow spider that kills its mates suggests today’s Wall St. Journal.
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March 30, 2018
March 30, 2018
As you likely have read in the New York Times or the Wall St. Journal, social media companies are under fire. Users are abandoning social media companies such as Facebook, Twitter, and Snap as if they were a ship on fire that has run aground. In the New York Times graphic, it depicts social media as a boat on fire--with a user escaping by row boat.
Today’s Wall St. Journal covers the delete Facebook trend.
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December 7, 2017
December 7, 2017
What if someone bought everything for a week through Amazon? Well, then many Main Street shops would be empty, most sales reps would be out of work, and many manufacturers in the U.S. would be out of business. A Wall St. Journal reporter tries the “Amazon only diet” and shares her findings.
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December 4, 2017
December 4, 2017
We love our local artists. Valerie Weiners journals and Nancy Baay paintings make the perfect small gifts.
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November 27, 2017
November 27, 2017
In-store foot traffic is down and online sales are up, reports today’s Wall St. Journal cover.
What is your strategy to deal with this trend in 2018?
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