Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
This is an era of Shopping as Entertainment—shopping not out of need, but to scratch an itch, to feel like you did something, to kill time. In the case of Temu, the marketplace’s homepage is a “chaotic display of products, resembling a general discovery feed with a search bar at the very top,” writes Terry Nguyen. The chaos comes from the various... See more

TIKTOK’S LATEST VILLAIN (OR HERO)? A SPELL-CASTING ETSY SELLER , fastcompany
It was a big week for Etsy witches. Influencer Jaz Smith hired one to keep the rain away from her heavily-TikToked wedding, a Knicks fan paid $8.48 to Priestess Aurora to curse the Pacers before Game 5, and a woman accused an unnamed sorceress-for-hire of breaking client... See more
It was a big week for Etsy witches. Influencer Jaz Smith hired one to keep the rain away from her heavily-TikToked wedding, a Knicks fan paid $8.48 to Priestess Aurora to curse the Pacers before Game 5, and a woman accused an unnamed sorceress-for-hire of breaking client... See more