I Want The Whole Sale

The story of the brand Outdoor Voices is riddled with ineptness. Their journey from hyped athletic apparel brand to raging dumpster fire is well documented. In short, its another example of a DTC brand acting as if fundraising is something to be proud of versus building a profitable business. Retail fundamentals were lacking, leadership isolated […]

The System Always Kicks Back

Here’s your science lesson of the day: In Chemistry there is such a thing as an “Equilibrium Law.” It is more commonly referred to as Le Chatelier’s principle, named after the French chemist Henry Louie Le Chatelier. The formal definition of the principle is: If a system is at equilibrium and an outside stress is […]

The Dull Drugstore

One thing stood out for me when living in NYC last year: many of the pharmacies were dull and uninspiring. CVS? Bland. Walgreens? Blah. Rite-Aid? Booooring. If I needed to visit a pharmacy, locations were abundant in the Upper East Side. Although, that appears to be changing. The Wall Street Journal reports that the real […]