The Discount Is A Confession
Every discount an operator runs is a confession that the Product cannot hold its price. Dead stock, Tuesday deals, sampling, competitor matches, Black Friday — every one is the same failure in different clothing. Here is the prosecution.
Your Sales Are Up Because Fewer People Came
Four readings the current data is producing across the industry, each one defensible on its own numbers and each one wrong at the mechanism — because every metric in the room has capacity or headcount in the denominator, and not...

