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Retail turmoil opens the door for innovation

July 3, 2017 by Jeffrey Woldt and Chain Drug Review Aldi, Amazon, chain drug stores, drug chains, food and beverage sales, grocery business, Jason Hart, Jeff Bezos, Jeffrey Woldt, Lidl, Whole Foods Market 2017, Issue 07-03-2017, Issues, Opinion

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.” To the extent that Emerson’s insight is applicable to the grocery business, retailers vying for a share of the nation’s $800 billion a year in food and beverage sales, a contingent that includes

In retailing, change is now the only constant

October 24, 2016 by Jeffrey Woldt and Chain Drug Review Amazon, Bob Dylan, curbside pickup service, CVS Pharmacy, Dollar Shave Club, Google, grocery business, Jeffrey Woldt, mass market retailers, Project Como, Target, Unilever, Walmart 2016, Issue 10-24-2016, Issues, Opinion

In the early 1960s, Bob Dylan, who was just awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, asked his listeners to “… admit that the waters/Around you have grown/And accept it that soon you be drenched to the bone/If your time to you is worth savin’/Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone/For the