Black Friday Tag

by Freddy Tran Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango + Shopper Who Has Never Busted a Door… With Black Friday looming around the corner, you’ll likely see the word “doorbuster” in retailer ads. It describes a shopping deal so irresistible that you’ll want to bust down a door to get at it — a notion that once sounded cute…Read More

by Freddy Tran Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango + Guy Who Did A Fair Amount Of Shopping This Xmas; Photo by Daniel Jensen on Unsplash… Just this summer, many “experts” proclaimed the death of American brick-and-mortar retail, and that Amazon would eat everyone’s lunch. When Amazon subsequently bought Whole Foods (make that “organic free-range lunch”), the same experts sang dirges for all the supermarkets. Consequently, the stock of competitors like Costco plunged. (BTW, I’m still waiting for one of these experts to explain the contradiction between “consumers are shifting toRead More