by Gary Hoover | Oct 21, 2021 | Articles, Articles, Business in General, Newsletters, Retailing, Share Your History
Today I write a more personal note, which we don’t often do in these newsletters. My lifelong study of businesses, working in them and starting them, has led me to think about how one sees the future clearly. The many great business leaders we profile on...
by Gary Hoover | Jul 26, 2019 | Articles, Retailing, Share Your History
I started collecting books by the time I was 8 years old, starting with a Rand McNally world atlas. I think it cost $1, and I still have it. My addiction has led me to live with my 57,000 books in an odd old commercial building in a small historic Texas...
by Gary Hoover | Jul 25, 2019 | Articles, Finance, Share Your History, Share Your History
I fell in love with retailing by the time I was 13. After studying economics in college at the University of Chicago, I wanted to become a securities analyst covering the retail industry on Wall Street (which of course means the industry, not necessarily on that...
by Gary Hoover | Jul 24, 2019 | Articles, Retailing, Share Your History
With the final collapse of Payless Shoes in February 2019, I figured I better record a bit of their history as I know it. In my 5 years at May Department Stores’ corporate headquarters in St. Louis from 1977 to 1981, I evolved to become the “strategic...