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Should IKEA Be Flattening Management?
"Cutting middle management creates an operational chasm between leadership and overwhelmed, understaffed teams. This gap matters."
- Lisa Goller, BrainTrust panelist
Do you see more positives than negatives in the trend toward corporations flattening their organizational structures?
Is Five Below Poised For Even Greater Growth?
"Some brands just have the 'it' factor – Five Below is one of them. The fact is, Five Below has faced headwinds, but these have hardly slowed them down. That says a lot."
- Mark Ryski, BrainTrust panelist
What's happening in retail?
Here are our picks for top news impacting retailers today:
Disney is exiting its deal with OpenAI just as the latter entity’s AI video generation platform, Sora, is set to shut down. “As the nascent AI field advances rapidly, we respect OpenAI’s decision to exit the video generation business and to shift its priorities elsewhere,” a Disney spokesperson said (via Hollywood Reporter).
Amazon is slated to expand its robotaxi service, Zoox, in San Francisco and Las Vegas — as well as introduce the service in two new cities, Austin and Miami. The company is currently awaiting approval to operate up to 2,500 autonomous vehicles on public roads (via Chain Store Age).
FedEx has launched its own same-day delivery service, in conjunction with last-mile delivery company OneRail, as Amazon pushes its own one- and three-hour services. “Our value prop is about speed, reliability and visibility, and we’re always trying to push the envelope on that value prop,” exec Jason Brenner said (via CNBC).
Epic Games, citing weakness in its “Fortnite” property and a wider video games business slump, laid off ~1,000 workers. “I’m sorry we’re here again. The downturn in Fortnite engagement that started in 2025 means we’re spending significantly more than we’re making,” CEO Tim Sweeney wrote in a memo (via FOX Business).
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