Post-Pandemic Wasteland
The pandemic response has created a new post-pandemic world with fewer personal services, amenities and changed priorities for businesses
Tagged: business
Virtual Conferences: Where Do We Go From Here?
Companies are seeking creative ways to reach new customers who are sitting in front of a computer at home wearing pajamas.
Desperate Times Call For Disparate Measures
In the case of the coronavirus, the government was buying businesses’ compliance with a quarantine, in order to save lives.
Requiem For a Heavy Meal
I went to plan the family get-together, and I found much to my chagrin that the Klinkes were out of business. Like, out of business entirely.
Barbarians at the Gate: Credentialism and Loving Gatekeeping, Under Certain Circumstances…
Credentialism is a game whose rules are arbitrary and subject to change at any time…And it just gets worse every generation.
Sears, Trump, and the Age of Bull
I believe we are seeing Sears happening on a larger scale with the United States. So why have Lampert & Trump gotten away with their bad leadership?
Chick-fil-A and the Personal Touch of Jesus Chicken in the Age of Coronavirus
Chick-fil-A has a revolutionary idea in how to learn what a customer wants in their order: they ask. Nicely.
An Open Letter to Small Businesses: Stay Alive
The best thing small business owners can do for their employees is whatever it takes to survive long enough to employ them when this crisis is over
Linky Friday: Adventures in Amazon
Linky Friday this weeks delves into the world of Amazon: HQ2 cancelled, NYC reacts, business, economics, Jeff Bezos, politics, unions & more
Can Walmart Compete (in Streaming Video)?
Ordinary Times regular contributors Mark Krieger (@musepolisci) and Andrew Donaldson (@four4thefire) break down the news that Walmart is looking to launch their own streaming service, and fall on opposite sides when it comes to projecting the retail giants success.
Starbucks to Close Stores Amid Competition, Controversy
The old joke of “a Starbucks on every corner” might be slowing down, but the issues of growing too fast are not new for the coffee giant. CEO Howard Schultz returned to the company during the last period of adjustment, and his current retirement from the company has a familiar feel to it.
Starbucks Closes to Serve “Racial-Bias Education” to Employees
Starbucks will be closing around 8,000 company owned stores on the afternoon of May 29th, to give mandantory training to over 175K employees on what the coffee giant is calling “Racial-Bias Education”. The closing and training had been announced weeks ago in the aftermath of an incident in Philadelphia were a Starbuck manager called the police on two black customers sitting in the store
Amazon More Than Doubles Quarterly Profits
We are going to need some new terminology for dominance in a business sector. Amazon, already the undisputed king of E-commerce, now commands 43 cents of every dollar spent online.
