Albertsons/Safeway Loses Grocery War, Lidl Gives Up? by Wolf Richter • Jan 18, 2018 • 66 Comments Price war by Amazon-Whole Foods and Aldi scuttle Albertsons’ IPO hopes as customer traffic and same-store sales drop despite promos and price cuts.
Walmart Suddenly Shutters Numerous Sam’s Clubs without Notice, 11,000 Jobs Impacted, Chaos Breaks out on Twitter by Wolf Richter • Jan 11, 2018 • 91 Comments “This is how fly-by-night companies operate”
Chap. 11 Bankruptcies Spike 107% from Year Ago by Wolf Richter • Jan 8, 2018 • 32 Comments What caused the biggest jump since the Financial Crisis?
Brick & Mortar Meltdown Reaches Movie Theaters by Wolf Richter • Jan 3, 2018 • 112 Comments Is jacking up ticket prices helpful in this environment?
Frenzied Shopping Season, Record Hangover by Wolf Richter • Dec 26, 2017 • 56 Comments And what happens to the returned goods?
Margin Debt, Backed by Enron-Déjà-Vu Steinhoff Shares, Hits BofA, Citi, HSBC, Goldman, BNP by Wolf Richter • Dec 19, 2017 • 57 Comments “Shadow margin” is a hot business for brokers. Now they lick their wounds.
Enron Déjà Vu? Citi, BofA, HSBC, Goldman, BNP on the Hook as Steinhoff Spirals Down by Wolf Richter • Dec 8, 2017 • 55 Comments $21 billion of debt. Off-balance-sheet entities. Moody’s wakes up, downgrades it four notches, with more to come.
Bonds Issued by Acquirer of Mattress Firm & Sherwood Bedding Collapse after ECB Buys Them as Part of QE by Wolf Richter • Dec 6, 2017 • 46 Comments Steinhoff’s “accounting irregularities” crush its stock.
Online, Mobile Crush Everything Else this Holiday Season by Wolf Richter • Nov 27, 2017 • 49 Comments “I think that world is gone,” says Walmart US CEO about the Black Friday “mayhem” of prior years.
Is E-Commerce Really Crushing Brick-and-Mortar Sales? by Wolf Richter • Nov 17, 2017 • 46 Comments Some big sectors are still resisting.
