In the Harvard Business Review, I proclaimed, “The Best Global Leaders are Local Leaders” because if you look critically, every business is local! Stripe, a payment giant noted that more than 90% of all purchases still happen in person! https://hbr.org/2012/01/the-best-global-leaders-are-local . So, to unlock and capture opportunities in some markets, you need to win the meatspace (i.e. physical), even though you could deploy digital frameworks along the way.
Amazon, the world’s leading ecommerce company, understands that construct and is doing everything possible to battle in the physical space for its grocery business: ‘Amazon has gone back to the future. CEO Andy Jassy has renewed a commitment to opening more food stores “given that most grocery shopping happens in physical venues.’ Yes, more stores will unlock the future!
In that post, our piece on logistics, connecting the latent opportunities which companies like Konga are pioneering in Nigeria, was featured by LinkedIn News. Read it here https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/can-amazon-bag-grocery-market-5274553/
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