retail therapy
Amazon to Craigslist arbitrage.
“One writer tells us about the floor lamps and table lamps that he buys for under $75 on Amazon but sells for much more on Craigslist.” | learn more
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retail therapy
How did athleisure take over American fashion?
“Yoga pants, tennis shoes, and the 100-year history of how sports changed the way Americans dress.” | learn more
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Visual search sits on the brink of a breakthrough.
“According to eMarketer’s 2018 Visual Search report, about 1 billion visual searches happen per month. That’s a tiny fraction of overall search, which renders hundreds of billions of queries per month, but it’s growing. On Pinterest, monthly visual searches went […]
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New site where best direct-to-consumer companies are listed for free.
Stephan Aarstol, the founder of Tower Paddle Boards (backed by Mark Cuban), created NoMiddleMan.com to try and remove the need for d2c brands to pay a big portion of revenue to Amazon and Google for the privilege of reaching customers. | learn more
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Technologies and players shaping cashier-less retail.
CB Insights offers a thorough analysis of the market for human-free checkout. Amazon Go gets disproportionate press in this space. “Over 150 companies are working on automated, human-free, brick-and-mortar retail, using machine vision, IoT, RFID, and more.” | learn more
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Wayfair Spaces uses magic Leap AR for interior design.
“The idea is to use AR to place virtual furniture in your real home to figure out if it will fit before you buy it or move all your furniture around. Visualizing the combination of the digital and physical world […]
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Bluemercury doubles down on its strategy.
“As beauty retail giants Sephora and Ulta follow converging paths, Bluemercury diverges with a neighborhood strategy that builds a moat around the best beauty customers.” | learn more
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Amazon’s machines are moving from warehouse to office.
Attention merchants! A friendly reminder to not be asleep at the wheel. “In a major reorganization, the retail veterans who once decided what to sell on the site have lost out to the marketplace data scientists.” | learn more
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Inside Away’s instagram strategy.
The travel company that makes colorful suitcases and has raised $81MM in venture capital as they have scaled is a master of social media. Digiday explores how they use Instagram to sell you luggage. | learn more
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Walmart showcases the custom apps that employees use to get their jobs done.
I love two things about this post: 1) they have a LOT of custom apps and think of them discretely, which makes me believe there’s a product team focused on each one, and 2) they share this with the world […]