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Payless opened a fake luxury store called Palessi.
This clever viral ad campaign had people offering to pay hundreds of dollars for $20 shoes. |learn more
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retail therapy
Amazon’s secretly owned brands.
John Herrman shares some interesting research in the New York Times. “The infinite retailer appears to be ushering untold numbers of stealth brands into your life…” | learn more
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Retail and private equity: an in-depth look at the risky relationship.
“To explore the impact a decade and a half of leveraged buyouts has had on the industry, Retail Dive compiled data on acquisitions and outcomes from multiple sources. Here’s what we found.” | learn more
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Walmart moves past Apple as #3 U.S. e-tailer.
“eMarketer also noted that Walmart’s e-commerce growth is 39.4 percent just behind Wayfair’s 40.1 percent clip.” | learn more
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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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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 […]