by Brittain Ladd | May 30, 2022 | Delivery, Newsletter, No Retreat, No Surrender
I love doing research. I always have. One of the topics that I enjoy researching the most is business. Beginning in 2020, I began to notice something interesting – companies were being funded and launched that didn’t offer value in my opinion, instead,...
by Brittain Ladd | May 26, 2022 | Delivery, Newsletter, No Retreat, No Surrender
I was going to write about my career as a model and male dancer in this episode of the newsletter, and what I learned that has helped me so much in business. However, as I was thinking of what to write, I saw a headline that stated that companies are locked in a...
by Brittain Ladd | Mar 18, 2022 | Delivery, Grocery
GETTY Read original article on Forbes In May 2020, the Germany-based company Gorillas launched a new business model referred to as rapid grocery delivery. Instead of groceries being delivered in hours or days, Gorillas created a model using small retail locations...
by Brittain Ladd | Feb 4, 2022 | Delivery, Grocery, Retail
GETTY Read original article on Forbes On June 16, 2017, Amazon announced (paywall) that it would acquire the specialty retailer Whole Foods for $13.4 billion. I heard people speculate that Amazon would have an immediate impact on the grocery industry and that within...
by Brittain Ladd | Oct 26, 2021 | Delivery
GETTY Read original article on Forbes Uber launched in 2011. And a new form of transportation was also launched: ride-hailing. Ride-hailing allows customers to use an app to request a car at a customer’s location that will then deliver them to wherever they want to go...
by Brittain Ladd | Jun 22, 2021 | Delivery, Grocery, Retail
GETTY Read original article on Forbes Prior to the pandemic, online grocery shopping accounted for just 5% of all grocery sales in 2019, according to data from Mercator Advisory Group. As of February 2021, online grocery shopping had increased 230% from pre-pandemic...
