“I looked at publicly available finances of (4) types of consumer branded companies to get an idea their business models and who is actually making money: CPG houses — P&G, Unilever, Nestle, L’Oreal; Softgoods houses — Luxxotica, VF Corp, LVMH; […]
“Chinese e-commerce platforms like Shein, Temu, and TikTok Shop are going global with big ambitions.” ~ learn more
Interesting findings here, demonstrating that the market was not perfectly efficient nor competitive. Maybe because of a high barrier to entry? “We use a panel data set covering 160 million credit card accounts and a difference-in-differences research design that compares […]
“We uncovered a set of apps and fake experts cheating the performance metrics. We found those practices in almost 15% of extensions that promised one-click optimizations. This means that a large number of merchant sites are affected.” ~ learn more
One of two big settlements this month that’ll eventually trickle down to impact consumers. This one will make credit card acceptance more fragmented and complex, but potentially save merchants money. ~ learn more
Here’s another major settlement that will possibly end up driving commissions lower for real estate transactions. It seems that brokers will no longer be splitting commission by default. Time will tell how this one plays out! ~ learn more
“Four years after the toilet paper shortage of 2020, bidet converts say they’re never going back.” ~ learn more
“Shein and Temu together send almost 600,000 packages to the United States every day, according to a June 2023 report by the U.S. Congress – is boosting air-freight costs from Asian hubs like Guangzhou and Hong Kong, making off-peak seasons […]
They write, “the problem with the current retail theft crackdown is that it is not based on actual crime trends nor the evidence on what works to reduce theft.” The data they point to certainly supports their claim. That data also, at […]
There’s a common view that ads work by associating positive memories and feelings with products. This author disagrees and makes a compelling case for an alternate theory. “…[R]ather than trying to change our minds individually, [an ad] instead changes the […]