Tag: retail management

How Retail Businesses Can Win in the Digital Age

September 1, 2022 Book Reviews, Business and Management 1 comment

How to Make Retail Remarkable

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Retail as we know it is dying. And it ain’t just Covid-19’s or e-commerce’s fault.

Just look at the number of retailers around the world (and right here in Singapore) that are rolling down the shutters.

Robinsons, Top Shop, MPH, Esprit, Toys R Us, Zara, H&M—these bellwether icons of brick-and-mortar retail are either filing for bankruptcy or closing stores by the thousands.


The Wal-Mart Effect: Book Review

January 9, 2012 Book Reviews no comments

What secrets does mega-retailer Walmart hold? Is low-price retailing always good for the customer or does it exert other insidious impacts on one’s lifestyles?

The answer to those questions and more are answered in the bestselling book “The Wal-Mart Effect” authored by award winning editor of Fast Company Charles Fishman. Leaving no stone unturned, Fishman’s highly readable volume dived deeply into the massive impact exerted by Walmart, and paints a sobering and sordid picture of its true influence.