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Luxury Clothing and Fashion Business

Luxury Clothing and Fashion Business

Fast Fashion and global competition in the Clothing Business

Fast Fashion and global competition in the Clothing Business

Mobile shopping - Clothing, Fashion e-commerce

Mobile shopping - Clothing, Fashion e-commerce

Etsy and shopping online, e-commerce

Etsy and shopping online, e-commerce

Starbucks Coffee - business, marketing

Starbucks Coffee - business, marketing

Bicycles - industry, sales, retail business

A collection of articles about Bicycles - industry, sales, retail business

Dollar Discount Stores - Retail business

articles looking at the Retail business

Technology solutions for SMBs and Retail business

Technology solutions for SMBs and Retail business

International - Home Delivery companies- Transportation, Frieght, Logistics and Technology

International - Home Delivery companies- Transportation, Frieght, Logistics and Technology

Social Shopping, Live Online video, E-commerce startups

Social Shopping, Live Online video, E-commerce startups

Clothing and Fashion Business - online marketplaces, platforms, e-commerce

Clothing and Fashion Business - online marketplaces, platforms, e-commerce

Fast Fashion, the Environment, and the Clothing Business

Fast Fashion, the Environment, and the Clothing Business

eBay and e-commerce

eBay and e-commerce

Bookstores - New and used book sellers - Competing with Amazon

Bookstores - New and used book sellers - Competing with Amazon

Facebook Shops - retail business

Facebook Shops - retail business

Google Shopping

Google Shopping

Target - retail business - Competing vs. Amazon, Walmart

Target - retail business - Competing vs. Amazon, Walmart

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Article

We Need to Talk About Trader Joe’s

Behind the bubbly cashiers in Hawaiian shirts, craveable snacks, and bargain-basement prices are questionable business practices that have many foo... (2024)


Article

Inside the rise of Fanjoy, from selling music T-shirts to dominating influencer merchandise

Fanjoy is one of the top influencer merchandise companies, creating products for digital stars like David Dobrik, Tana Mongeau, and Adelaine Morin. (2024)


Article

Barnes & Noble Undergoes a Back-to-Basics Redesign - The New York Times

As the bookstore chain mounts a comeback, it’s breaking a cardinal rule of corporate branding and store design: consistency. (2023)


Article

Beyond Aggregation: Amazon as a Service – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Amazon’s new Buy With Prime announced the arrival of Amazon Logistics as a Service, and is a big red flag for Shopify. (2022)


Article

Investing in Inventa | Andreessen Horowitz

Inventa is a B2B marketplace that connects brands and independent retailers in Brazil, helping a brand reach new customers and the independent reta... (2022)


Article

As demand for bikes surged, Amazon got in the way - The Verge

With demand for bikes and bike parts high, Pacific Northwest Components quit Amazon in order to better supply independent shops and help customers ... (2021)


Article

Snap buys another company to make AR shopping a reality - The Verge

Snap has acquired Vertebrae, an AR shopping company that helps brands turn their goods into 3D assets, which could help Snapchat become an augmente... (2021)


Article

The economics of dollar stores. How do dollar stores make money?

A visual explainer of the numbers behind America’s ubiquitous bargain-basement chains. (2021)


Article

Investing in SpotOn - Andreessen Horowitz

Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy. There are 32 million small businesses and over 400,000 independently owned restaurants in the Un... (2021)


Article

Whatnot raises $20M for its livestreaming platform built for selling Pokémon cards and other collectibles – TechCrunch

A few months later, as they expanded into categories like pins and Pokémon cards, the company started to build out a live shopping platform — think... (2021)


Article

Vestiaire Collective raises $216 million for its second-hand fashion platform – TechCrunch

Vestiaire Collective announced a new funding round. The company has raised $216 million, or €178 million — it has reached a valuation above $1 bill... (2021)


Article

The next economic crisis: Empty retail space

As tenants stop paying and shrink their offices, commercial real estate is cratering. (2020)


Article

Cyclists Spend 40% More In London's Shops Than Motorists

Want to lift retail takings? Get rid of cars. That's the conclusion from a new report from Transport for London. (2020)


Article

Shopify Overtakes eBay

Shopify’s Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) for the second quarter was $30.1 billion compared to eBay’s $27.1 billion. For the first time, Shopify pro... (2020)


Article

Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores

Rite Aid used facial recognition in largely lower-income, non-white neighborhoods. The systems included one from a firm with links to China and its... (2020)


Article

Commercial property investment - Investors love affair with commercial property is being tested

The sector faces a shake-up Investors have loaded up on commercial property. Now they face a reckoning... (2020)


Article

The genius of Amazon

The genius of Amazon - The pandemic has shown that Amazon is essential—but vulnerable Jeff Bezos's vision of a world shopping online is coming t... (2020)


Article

Platforms in an Aggregator World

Facebook Shops are good for Shopify merchants, but bad for Shopify; the answer is to push more into the real world. (2020)


Article

The Anti-Amazon Alliance

Google Shopping is changing its model, suggesting Google is joining the Anti-Amazon Alliance; 3rd-party merchants should do the same. (2020)


Article

Amazon’s New Competitive Advantage: Putting Its Own Products First

Brands have long been able to bid for the premier slot at the top left of Amazon’s listings, but during the pandemic the online retailer has begun ... (2020)


Article

Walmart says it will discontinue Jet, which it acquired for $3B in 2016

So much for Walmart’s big and expensive effort to take on Amazon with a digitally-native brand. Amid the coronavirus crisis and its impact on the r... (2020)


Article

Target to acquire same-day delivery tech from Deliv

Target, which already owns on-demand delivery service Shipt, is in the process of acquiring technology assets from same-day delivery service Deliv.... (2020)


Article

The Worst Rebrand in the History of Orange Juice - Better Marketing

In hindsight, it’s easy to see why Tropicana’s 2009 rebrand failed. Poor design choices, a messy, vague, esoteric theme, and — as always with these... (2020)


Article

Instacart announces new COVID-19 policies and plans to hire 250,000 more shoppers

Instacart’s aggressive hiring spree is continuing due to COVID-19 shelter in place orders. Today, the company announced it is adding 250,000 more s... (2020)


Article

NBCUniversal makes its content and ads more shoppable with a new Checkout experience

NBCUniversal is introducing a new way to incorporate commerce into the viewing and reading experience, which it calls NBCUniversal Checkout. The ne... (2020)


Article

The Yeast Supply Chain Can’t Just Activate Itself

There’s a reason the ingredient is still missing from stores. Brands like Fleischmann’s are ramping up production and hiring more staff—but the ... (2020)


Article

Eggs, milk, truffle butter? Miami restaurants sell groceries amid coronavirus crisis

It’s no small task. In eggs alone, Three Fold bought 120 cases from its usual provider, Lake Meadow Naturals in Ocoee, Fla. — which amounts to more... (2020)


Article

Frustrated with supermarkets and delivery apps, Miami shoppers turn to local options

Even as most grocery stores, from locals like Sedano’s and Milam’s to Fresh Market and Whole Foods, now offer scheduled pickups or delivery through... (2020)


Article

GrubHub/Seamless’s pandemic initiatives are predatory and exploitative, and it’s time to stop using them

Times are exceptionally hard, especially for local restaurants, which were always in a precarious business even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. B... (2020)


Article

Food Shortages? Nope, Too Much Food In The Wrong Places : The Salt

Some Americans, fearing food shortages from COVID-19, have cleaned out supermarket shelves. Yet there's too much food in some places. Farmers are d... (2020)


Video

How Is Shein Really Keeping Prices So Low? | WSJ The Economics Of

Shein says it’s able to make affordable apparel by monitoring user behavior to predict customer demand and producing items in small quantities. The... (2023)


Video

Amazon’s Same-Day Delivery Strategy: How Much Faster Can It Go? | WSJ Shipping Wars

Amazon is the king of fast delivery – it pioneered the free two-day shipping model customers have come to expect. As competitors like Walmart and T... (2023)


Video

How Liquid Death's Founder Started A $700 Million Water Brand | Founder Effect

Liquid Death founder and CEO Mike Cessario spent years figuring out how to make water cool. Now his brand is valued at $700 million. After attendin... (2023)


Video

How I Transformed Canada Goose Into A Billion-Dollar Brand

When Dani Reiss took the reins as CEO of Canada Goose at age 27, he was running a company that brought in $2.2 million a year in revenue. Today, th... (2023)


Video

Why Aldi is a Threat to Supermarkets | WSJ The Economics Of

Aldi’s ‘no-frills’ strategy has helped make it one of the cheapest and the fastest growing grocery stores in the U.S. For the past decade, it’s bee... (2023)


Video

Why Sweetgreen’s Beloved $15 Salads Still Aren’t Profitable | WSJ The Economics Of

Sweetgreen’s fast-casual $15 salads have a cult following. But even as the salad chain has sold millions of these bowls to its customers, net profi... (2023)


Video

How Robots Could Help Retailers Save Billions

Outfitted with cameras and sensors, autonomous inventory robots can verify price signs and look for out-of-stock items. Inventory is one of the big... (2023)


Video

Why Everywhere in the US is Starting to Look the Same

Why Everywhere in the US is Starting to Look the Same (2022)


Video

The Unconventional Franchise Model Behind Chick-fil-A’s Success | WSJ

Chick-fil-A has built its rapid growth on the popularity of its chicken sandwich. But its unconventional approach to business has helped make it th... (2022)


Video

How Starbucks Operates Like a Bank While Serving Coffee | WSJ

Starbucks, a $124.4 billion company, trails only McDonald’s as the largest restaurant chain by market capitalization. In this video, WSJ’s Heather ... (2022)


Video

Coronavirus IV: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses how Coronavirus is impacting the US workforce, from mass unemployment to the problems faced by essential workers. Connect wit... (2020)


Video

How Kmart Went From Beating Walmart And Target To Bankruptcy - CNBC

In October 2018, Kmart's parent company, Sears Holdings, filed for bankruptcy. Kmart first filed for bankruptcy in 2002, making this its second tim... (2018)


Video

The End of the Beginning - a16z

In his now annual state-of-innovation talk at the a16z Summit in November 2018, Andreessen Horowitz’ Benedict Evans walks through where we are now ... (2018)


Video

How SoftBank-Backed Brandless Plans to Take On Amazon - Bloomberg

August 1st, 2018, 3:57 AM EDT Tina Sharkey, Brandless Inc.'s chief executive officer, discusses the company's business strategy with Bloomberg's... (2018)


Video

Hershey has a plan to keep impulse shopping alive - CNN

Hershey knows how to get you to make impulse purchases, if you're shopping at a store. But as people shift to online shopping, Hershey is trying to... (2018)


Video

What America's shopping mall decline means for social space - Vox

The mall was America’s third place — for better or for worse. Our lives are lived in 1 of 3 places, the home, ... (2018)


Video

Why is Black Friday Called Black Friday?

When did Black Friday start, and why do we dislike it so much? Good Mythical Morning Episode 209! SUBSCRIBE for daily episodes: http://bit.ly/subrl... (2017)


Podcast

Shopify's Tobi Lütke on Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman

Shopify's Tobi Lütke knows the secret to massive scale. It's be a platform. Build a virtuous cycle and you’ll emerge the biggest winner of all. (2020)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: The Golden Era of Productivity, Retail, and Supply Chains - Andreessen Horowitz

Container ships, supply chains, and retail This podcast rerun -- first recorded over two and a half years ago, now being rerun as one of our eve... (2017)


Podcast

Allbirds CEO on Amazon's copycat strategy - Axios

Allbirds chief executive Joey Zwillinger on how Amazon copied his company's footwear. Amazon is known for watching what retail products gain tra... (2019)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: Who’s Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)

with Ryan Caldbeck, Jeff Jordan, and Sonal Chokshi (2019)


Podcast

Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck on using data to map the global economy | This Week In Startups

First, Jeff Glueck, CEO of Foursquare, talks with Jason about splitting the product into two separate apps, bridging the digital & the physical, an... (2018)


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