Detroit All of the news this morning is the Detroit Auto Show here, where this city is still trying to fly the flag on a ship that increasingly seems to have set sail, while those of us still driving American made cars seem to have ‘old school’ tattooed across our foreheads. Nothing seems more ‘old …
Category: WalMart
Wal-Mart and Bharti on the India Sneak
San Francisco Wal-Mart sales are slipping. It’s stock in on a skid. Expansion plans have been rolled back in the US. This year the company closed shop in Germany and Korea. There’s no smiley face on this season for Wal-Mart. I should have known when they saw Reliance grabbing their business model and threatening to run …
FDI in Retail in Korea
Seoul, South Korea On the road one meeting leads to another. Sometimes one pushes forward with little but trust for the guide in this case the indefatigable Na and the stone-cold commitment to working a full day. I was coming to the end of the trail. We were going to meet with the Democratic Labor Party. …