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Bruce Merrifield: Distribution
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Bruce Merrifield is a longtime wholesale-distribution industry consultant and an expert on service management.

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High-margin counter sales aren’t profitable

Bruce Merrifield: Rethink “digital” with Customer Advisory Boards

How CABs changed my distributorship.
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Bruce Merrifield
July 26, 2021
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In the early 1980s, I bought a multi-location, contractor-supply distributor. The employees were panicked about a new owner from outside the industry. But — thanks to Customer Advisory Boards (CABs) — we all won big.
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Help wanted

Bruce Merrifield: Post-pandemic labor challenges

Looking at the strategies of companies across the U.S.
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Bruce Merrifield
June 24, 2021
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Our economy was shut-down for a year, then rebooted with massive, blunt, stimulus and build-better funds. It will take months for the supply-and-demand for both products and labor to rebalance. And it’s no secret the country is facing major labor shortages.
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Supply and demand

Bruce Merrifield: Bull-whip management

Product and supply-demand chaos is upon us.
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Bruce Merrifield
May 24, 2021
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Never in history has a global — just-in-time — balanced economy been shut down by a pandemic.
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Payday

Bruce Merrifield: Embrace all-win, high-hourly wages

$14 living wage vs. Amazon and Costco strategy.
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April 26, 2021
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The “$15-hour living wage” movement will continue. It will buy votes, liquidate jobs and boost McDonald’s prices more than the new, net wages. Although many voters are weak at system-thinking math, Amazon and Costco are not.
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Bruce Merrifield: Embrace all-will, high-hourly wages

$15 Living Wage vs. Amazon and Costco strategies.
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Bruce Merrifield
April 21, 2021
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The “$15-hour living wage” movement will continue. It will buy votes, liquidate jobs and boost McDonald’s prices more than the new, net wages. Although many voters are weak at system-thinking math, Amazon and Costco are not.
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Bruce Merrifield: Minnow division and data-free beliefs

Don’t waste time and resources on the wrong customers.
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Bruce Merrifield
March 12, 2021
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Customer-profitability analytics provide many insights for distributors. A common opportunity is an accumulated sea of small, unprofitable accounts: Minnows!
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Bruce Merrifield: Automate the picking of your losing, small-dollar SKUs

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February 25, 2021
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Many distributors assume they can handle one more warehouse order for free. Aren’t all warehouse operational-costs fixed in the moment? And isn’t keeping people busier good?
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Digital disruption lessons

Factors that are attacking your selling techniques.
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Bruce Merrifield
July 10, 2020
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As consumers, we benefit from the digital disruption that continues to march through different verticals (such as newspapers, movies, music albums, travel agents, cars, stock trading, etc). But, the unchanging, traditional players died while we gained.
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COVID-19 price gouging

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June 24, 2020
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A look at relic-SKU pricing and strategic pricing.

 


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Bruce Merrifield: Downsize tactics for distributors

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May 12, 2020
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After World War II, when the economy tanked, the drill was to freeze hiring, maybe weed out a few, freeze all investments, cut all discretionary expenses and try not to cave on declining incentive pay that is de facto salary. Basically, wait out the recession, then get back to growing with the U.S. economy; your industry; and/or the inflation in your product lines.


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