Ryan Mathews

As James Joyce once said, "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." Key word -- trying. Many retailers have been fighting a holding action over the past decade, a grinding war of attrition characterized by a relentless erosion of market share.

Of course it all...

H.L. Mencken was right, "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." Look ... I'm all for free markets and letting the buyer beware, but Super Bowl ads are the advertising equivalent of shooting slightly demented fish in a barrel. It's fair, but somehow it's really...

This is an issue near and dear to my heart since I have lived in a food desert in Detroit. First of all, there weren't an abundance of mom & pops and secondly, the ones that were there represented threats to public health.

It wasn't just that they did "...not...

I think -- if it's possible -- we ought to try to separate politics from science for a moment.

There seems to be a growing body of evidence that sugar is at lease habituating. I believe the same could be said for anything that triggers good feelings in the...

Well ... we'll see ... won't we?

It's a pretty tough act to follow, so he'll need to be bold but not reckless -- not an easy trick.

Put me in the camp that's a little skeptical about this hire.

No, if anything I think this may be an example of "better to have loved (the environment), and lost than to have never loved at all."

In the long-run Tesco may be happy the program failed. Given the difficulty, (and potential variability) of establishing individual product carbon footprints, the...

Breaking some traditions in retail is undoubtedly a good thing. This wouldn't be a good example.

The "Greeter" is part of the Walmart experience and, in stores not always known for killer customer service, sometimes the friendliest (only friendly?) face a customer might encounter. It never made economic sense to...

First of all, I hope the information wasn't really "actionable" which, of course means capable of being litigated.

But on to the question. You don't have to look any further than Tesco's Homeplus stores in South Korea to understand that "anytime, anywhere" is as potentially valid for food as...

As long as I've been involved with the food industry -- which sometimes seems like it's been since the Neolithic Era -- pundits have been reassuring me there was no future in limited assortment stores -- and yet they have continued to flourish over all those years! So I...

Of course! You have authors reviewing their own work on Amazon, some Facebook pages are cluttered with managers talking about how wonderful "Company X" is and there's dozens more obvious examples of deceptive practices and probably hundreds we don't know about.

In the end it's the customer's problem, just...