Retailing category: 264 books
The Retail Revolution
How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
The definitive account of how a small Ozarks company upended the world of business and what that change means
Wal-Mart, the world's largest company, roared out of the rural South to change the way business is done. Deploying computer-age technology, Reagan-era politics, and Protestant evangelism,...
Amazon.com
Get Big Fast
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
In Amazon.com Jeff Bezos built something the world had never seen. He created the most recognized brand name on the Internet, became for a time one of the richest men in the world, and was crowned "the king of cyber-commerce."
Yet for all the media exposure, the inside story of Amazon.com...
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble
Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
In the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to Beanie Babies. With no advertising or big-box distribution, creator Ty Warner - an eccentric college dropout - become a billionaire in just three years. And it was all thanks to collectors. The end of the craze was just as swift and extremely devastating,...
The Design of Everyday Things
Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The ultimate guide to human-centered design
Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious-even liberating-book, lies not in ourselves, but in product...
How Walmart Is Destroying America (And the World)
And What You Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
After carving up the once lovingly cared-for downtowns of Small Town America, Wal-Mart launched a frontal assault on mom-and-pop businesses all over the globe. With 1.5 million employees operating more than 3,500 stores, Wal-Mart is now the world's largest private employer. In this third edition of...
Affluenza
How Overconsumption Is Killing Us--and How to Fight Back
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED
affluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.
We tried to warn you! The 2008 economic collapse proved how resilient and dangerous affluenza can be....
by J. C. Williams Group
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Developing relationships in the new retail environment is the key to success. Identify new ways to enhance your relationships with suppliers, customers and the communities that you operate in.
Extraordinary Experiences
What Great Retail and Restaurant Brands Do
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Discover how brick-and-mortar brands create extraordinary experiences that keep drawing customers into their stores.
How do some stores and restaurants break through the clutter; compete with bigger, online competitors; and manage to grow and thrive when so many others fail? They earn...
by Joseph James Bsc MBA
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
RETAIL BUSINESS HEALTH CHECK
FOREWORD We are usually advised by our doctors to undergo regular health checks in order to ensure that our bodies are healthy. This allows us to go about our lives efficiently and effectively. During this process, the doctor will be able to identify any potential...
Reengineering Retail
The Future of Selling in a Post-Digital World
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Since the release of Doug Stephens’ first book, The Retail Revival, change in the global retail sector has accelerated beyond even the boldest forecasts. As predicted, online giants like Amazon and Alibaba.com are growing at a dizzying pace. Hundreds of well-known brick and mortar retailers have...
Retail Superstars
Inside the 25 Best Independent Stores in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
How small, one-of-a-kind businesses can break through among giants
Megachains like Walmart, Starbucks, Home Depot, and The Gap attract Americans to thousands of outlets by offering a large selection of goods and services. But this doesn't mean that independent stores can't compete with the...
Priceless
The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It)
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Prada stores carry a few obscenely expensive items in order to boost sales for everything else (which look like bargains in comparison). People used to download music for free, then Steve Jobs convinced them to pay. How? By charging 99 cents. That price has a hypnotic effect: the profit margin of...
Marketplace 3.0
Rewriting the Rules of Borderless Business
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
The CEO behind Rakuten and Kobo reveals how his unique approach to empowerment and collaboration defies conventional wisdom, and isthe future of growth and globalization strategy.
If Web 2.0 described the shift from static to interactive life on the Web, then 3.0 is the next sea change —...
Malled
My Unintentional Career in Retail
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
One woman's midcareer misadventures in the absurd world of American retail.
After losing her job as a journalist and the security of a good salary, Caitlin Kelly was hard up for cash. When she saw that The North Face-an upscale outdoor clothing company-was hiring at her local mall, she went...