The much-publicized exchange between Bed Bath & Beyond chairman Marcus Lemonis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom is a lesson for the whole country.

We shoppers look back fondly on the marketing acumen that, starting with one store in 1971, built Bed Bath & Beyond into a retail giant that once had 365 stores nationwide.

The shopping experience there was always great fun — the basics of homemaking at great prices plus innovative trinkets that were always attention-getters at prices attractive enough to get you to buy what you weren’t even thinking about when you walked into the store.

The nature of business is that times change. The reality of the marketplace — conditions changing daily — requires total investment of time and attention every day of those managing the business.

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