Podcast 77: Eric Garland

Published: Aug. 29, 2014, 11:32 p.m.

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Back in November of 2013, trend analyst, author and musician Eric Garland decided to post an entry to his blog entitled \\u201cGuitar Center and the End of Big Box Retail.\\u201d He described how GC\\u2019s corporate bond had been downgraded to junk status and how, in his view, it signaled \\u201cthe end of a terrible model\\u201d of retailing. Garland never expected the post to go viral but within a couple of weeks it was shared by thousands of guitarists and musicians, GC customers, industry insiders and music lovers (his most recent updates can be found here).

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