Bed Bath & Beyond is now beyond boring. The state of the company cannot be blamed on China shipments, post-covid retail shoppers, or fickle consumers. Bed Bath and Beyond, where the stock price has collapsed to less than $9 a share from over $44, is a disaster the company hasMORE HERE
Retailers need to have surprise if they want customers back. Top-down merchandise selections are not the answer. Look for suprises, like Stanley Marcus. Consider store autonomy and local merchandising.MORE HERE
For generations, the Mennen brand, now part of Colgate-Palmolive, was synonymous with mens’ and babies’ products, from baby oil to Speed Stick, Afta to Skin Bracer. Today, as the Colgate-Palmolive board meets for its annual meeting, it would do well to reconsider the value of the Mennen brand and companyMORE HERE
There is a class of basic home remedies, still around, that one could have found at a Main Street independent pharmacy a century ago. One of those classics, often forgotten, is the drawing salve Smile’s Prid. Prid, which dates from 1947, treats blisters and boils, and other noxious conditions oneMORE HERE
LEBANON, Tenn. – Cracker Barrel Old Country Store today launched its first Cracker Barrel Kitchen delivery service in Hollywood, Calif. The restaurant takeout will offer Cracker Barrel meals with delivery services DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub. Cracker Barrel’s Los Angeles ghost kitchen will also serve its existing virtual brand ChickenMORE HERE
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Cubocx, a full service creative agency specializing in branding, advertising, and product design, added André Matarazzo as partner and executive creative director. For more than 20 years Matarazzo has worked across a multitude of market segments and four continents. He’s held long-term leadership positions at some ofMORE HERE
LOCKPORT, N.Y., Crunch Time Apple Growers, a New York State-based cooperative of 152 fruit growers, continues to promote their breakthrough RubyFrost apple variety his fall. For 2021, they will deliver 175,000 bushels if these tart, crisp apples to supermarkets this season, a 35 percent increase. It is targeted to EastMORE HERE
If you haven’t been paying attention to the used car market, now is the time to start. Why? Forty-one million used cars trade hands every year in the United States, and online marketplaces, like Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace, only account for about half of transactions. The largest used car companies,MORE HERE
Minute Maid concentrate, the inventor of the category of frozen orange juice, is quietly disappearing from some grocery store frozen food sections, though it is still found at major grocery chains, including Walmart and Publix. The juice concentrate brand was once an essential component of almost every American freezer. WhileMORE HERE
CHARLOTTE – The department store chain Belk Inc. created a new women’s brand called Wonderly that will replace its discontinued house brand New Directions. The new brand joins a long tradition of private label product names used by the 130 year old department store company. “Wonderly is an effortless styleMORE HERE