In Scottsville, Kentucky at the dawn of World War 2 the market for “selling the good stuff to rich folks” was already taken, so J. L. Turner and Sons sold “the cheap stuff to the poor folks” instead. For the first 16 years of its life, the budding enterprise trafficked in close-out merchandise, first as […]
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scuttleblurb business update (2025)
January 8, 2026
I’m sure you’re sick of these annual newsletter recaps by now, so I’ll keep mine [...]
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[ODFL, SAIA, XPO] the LTL carriers are going to be ok
January 5, 2026
If I were to tell you about a company whose main job is to move [...]
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[AVTR] a poor man’s Thermo Fisher
December 22, 2025
Avantor is like Thermo Fisher in some respects. It distributes lab products and sells bioprocessing [...]
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Survey results + programming notes
December 19, 2025
Hi everyone – on Monday, I’ll share some thoughts on Avantor in my final post [...]
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[scuttlebit] Shift4’s organic growth
December 10, 2025
Last week, a reader and Shift4 shareholder messaged me, raising questions about the company’s organic [...]
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