Despite the #macroenvironmental trend away from physical stores, Sears is opening three smaller home goods stores. They're #partnering with Amazon to allow for reordering Kenmore brand items on Amazon Dash. I don't think this will be enough to save them from bankruptcy. #ECU4842
Amazon's newest #competitiveaction is dropping Whole Foods' produce prices by 20% for all customers while offering double the number of deals for Prime members. The extra discounts are a good idea to bring in new customers for Whole Foods and new Prime members. #ECU4842
The #jointventure Haven aims to improve healthcare costs for their combined 1.2 million employees . The company hires their own physicians in order to have more control over costs, thus making healthcare cheaper for both the employees and parent companies' insurance. #ECU4842
Last year, @amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and @jpmorgan announced that they wanted to address the problem of rising health care costs for their employees and a lack of improvement in care. The new venture now has a name. https://t.co/MUfrNEN1XD
Apple's new streaming service and upgraded news service are a good #strategicfit to their changing company image of a subscription service. These complement the Apple Music and App Store subscriptions the company currently offers. #ECU4842
With the #macroenvironmental shift to self-driving cars, ride sharing companies like Lyft and Uber will have to change from how they currently operate. Perhaps they can purchase these self-driving cars to use and receive all of the revenue from each trip. #ECU4842
Nginx claims they are keeping their CEO and founders as employees in their #acquisition by F5 Networks, but company executives historically don't adapt well to becoming employees again. I feel an early retirement may be in the future for these individuals. #ECU4842
To take advantage of the #macroenvironmental trend of people drinking less soda, PepsiCo invests in flavored water products such as Drinkfinity. While this goes with the the trend, I don’t think that people will repeatedly pay $6 and shipping to flavor 4 bottles of water #ECU4842
JCP is decreasing its #productlinebreadth by dropping the appliance line from its store. This will allow more room for higher profit margin items such as clothing and bedding. I don't relate JCP with blenders and toasters as much as clothing when I think of the company. #ECU4842