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Johnson: Best Buy's short-term profit optimization harms long-term shareholders and employees
“Some of the best, like Best Buy yesterday reported sales down two percent. Stock went up because they earned more money. Well, if they earned more money, it's because either the vendors gave them more margin, or they reduced payroll for their employees. Both o…”
Jordan: Direct-to-consumer models yield higher margins by bypassing traditional aggregators
“This pre-tail or pre-commerce enables you to leverage the internet and your social following to go direct to the consumers. You get to basically disintermediate the historic aggregators. So, you know, if you were selling a phone 20 years ago, you can even say …”