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Strategies for a discontinuous future.












Monday, October 20, 2003
 


Couche-Tard plans to disrupt the convenience store market, with a very interesting strategy based on personalizing stores to local markets - which is often where the highest margin goods are sold to the most price-insensitive consumers. Essentially, this is ultra-differentiation.

Will it work? I wish it would. But I think the American consumer's preferences have become too homogenized, by years of oligopoly and brainwashing-as-advertising, for this strategy to really fit.

I could be completely wrong - so, a very interesting strategy to watch unfold.

-- umair // 5:08 AM //


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