My Adventures in Self-Publishing
When my book The Great A&P was published back in 2011, a major commercial publisher […]
The Great A&P Revisited
When it was published back in 2011, many readers took my book The Great A&P […]
Payless: A Brief Obituary
Back in 1956, there were a couple of events that helped shape the course of […]
Of Sears and the Great A&P
The death of a major retailer rarely comes as a surprise. You can usually see […]
Who Owns the Curb?
How we define a problem often affects how we think about it. Consider the question […]
Information and Competition
It seems that competition regulators at the European Union are looking into whether “Big Data” […]
Amazon, Whole Foods, and The Great A&P
A lot of people are concerned that if Amazon.com’s purchase of Whole Foods Market goes through, […]
Time for a Timely Demise
As a young journalist, I was taught never to refer to someone’s “untimely” death: those […]
Supply Chain Insurance
As of this writing, 47 people have been killed and many more injured by the […]
In Defense of Industrial Food
The other night I watched Michael Pollan’s new documentary, In Defense of Food. I’m a […]