In Order To Succeed, Should Product Managers Become Smaller?

Sam’s Clubs are getting smaller in order to compete better

If you were a product manager at Walmart’s Sam’s Club, there is one thing that would keep you up at night: Costco. You’d know that your product development definition was broken because the customers that you wanted to come into your Sam’s Club stores all too often were heading over to shop at Costco. The … Read more

What Will It Take For Sam’s Club To Be Successful In China?

Sometimes you have to go up market in order to be successful

In the world of shopping in bulk, you have choices. Specifically, when you need a huge amount of toilet paper or paper towels, you can choose to go to either Sam’s Club or Costco.Where do you choose to go? If you are like most people, if you have a choice you generally choose go to … Read more

What Would You Do If Walmart Turned Off Your Gas?

I seem to recall that there is a type of fish that attaches itself to sharks, I think that it’s called a remora. This fish then gets access to all of the leftovers when the shark feeds. Not a bad relationship, eh? In the U.S. gas station business, there is a company called Murphy USA … Read more