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Management needs to get the fundamentals right and the problems of poor profitability and customer loyalty will take care of itself.

This new slogan is fitting as it ask consumer's to suspend their disbelief in what their eyes see.  But, slogan's aside, Wal-Mart customer's will see higher prices, less variety, more stock outs, and less service, if that's even possible. 

Lower sales growth for jewelers is almost a certainty if gold continues to rise during the 3rd and 4th quarters.  Here's why.  

1. iTunes is cannibalizing NBC home video sales.    2. Apple’s solution: open an iTunes rental / Video-on-Demand platform.

Expect Zale second quarter earning guidance to overstate actual performance once again.  Here's why.

One significant part of Lee Scott's turn around plan for was the centralization of store decision-making.  That may prove to be an irrevocable error.  Here's why.

If fundamentals are any measure, Blue Nile is overvalued.  Here are some different ways to look at the stocks valuation.  But do they really matter?

Despite higher working capital lines, declining sales and high leverage may lead to Finlay's restructuring or liquidation!.   Here's why.

A knee-jerk reaction to Tesco can only serve to further complicate an already confusing set of priorities which have caused too many strategic blunders and implementation mistakes at Wal-Mart.  Here's why Wal-Mart should adopt a wait and see attitude toward Tesco.

Leadership, not the economy responsible for Zale's "Sell" down grade.  After all, just how much better than 4.0%-4.5% market growth should Zale management need to achieve, profitable, top line sales growth?