Unseen Billions™
Forensic brand autopsies for consumer brands. I track the structural leaks costing you millions before they show up in your P&L.
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Forever 21's Boardroom Had Every Warning Sign for Ten Years. It Chose Expansion Over Evolution. Cost: $4.4 Billion.
Why did Forever 21 die twice?
A story first. Numbers after. I was in college in the Bay Area when my best friend from Sweden flew out to visit me. We were broke. We were young. LA felt like a movie we’d already watched a hundred times.
W...
Kohl's Q2 Numbers Landed Exactly Where I Predicted. Here's What That Means.
Three parts and sixteen thousand words ago, I made a claim that sounded like pessimism: Kohl’s doesn’t make its money selling clothes, and in my reading of fifteen years of public filings and earnings calls, the board running this departmen...
The Biggest Failed Merger: Kroger and Albertsons’ $24.6 Billion Deal. The Consequence? Empty Aisles and a Boardroom in Crisis.
Why would anyone go to Kroger? If you can’t answer that in thirty seconds, you’ve already lost.
This autopsy was requested by readers.
Kroger thinks people need Kroger. They don’t. People need groceries, and there are five other stores se...
Haven't Told Anyone I Started a Substack Publication
I Think I Cracked When I Was Pregnant With My Daughter
I had never been that angry in my life.
Before that, I was a people pleaser through and through. If someone needed something, I was there. If someone was upset, I cared. I always put...
JCPenney didn’t lose $12 billion because Americans suddenly stopped shopping
I don’t know a single person who’d pick JCPenney for back-to-school shopping. Not one. And I don’t say that to be mean. I say it because when a brand becomes irrelevant, that’s the tell, not the mall traffic numbers, not the earnings call,...
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