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Posts Tagged ‘News’

Lower Margin of Error Affects Retail Execution

Posted 03.06.08 10:06 AM by Karthik

Large retailers are focusing on improving their in-stock and also trying to keep inventory growth significantly lower than sales growth. For example, Lee Scott, CEO of Wal-Mart, in his Q4FY08...

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Slowing GDP Puts Premium on Sales Execution

Posted 02.29.08 6:54 PM by Eric

Today’s GDP showed that the economy slowed to a near standstill in Q4 of 2007. With fourth quarter consumer spending only increasing 1.9%, it makes one wonder what the first half of 2008 is going...

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Soda Wars

Posted 02.28.08 7:50 PM by Eric

Yesterday I read in the Wall Street Journal that US sales of private label sodas are declining faster than their brand counterparts. This seemed counter-intuitive to me, but then again, what it...

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The Price of $4 Gas

Posted 02.28.08 7:43 PM by Eric

Gasoline at $4 a gallon. That is what the analysts are saying. I know when gas hit $3 a gallon it changed my buying patterns. It made me wonder, what happens at $4. Are we more willing to...

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Wal-Mart Gravy Train Over

Posted 02.15.08 3:20 PM by Eric

I recently returned from a week of fascinating conversations with nearly a dozen CPG sales executives in Bentonville. One of the things they all told me was that the gravy train at Wal-Mart is over...

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