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Retail Romanticism Revivalism
- When we look back over the past 100 years, traditional commerce (and the culture it indirectly endorsed) was primarily curated by a single person’s point-of-view. Even when commerce moved online, to places like Amazon or Farfetch, retailers still controlled the types of things consumers purchased. Online commerce didn’t innovate a new shopping expe... See more
from Curators All the Way Down by Gaby Goldberg
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Rather than being a retail’s side gig, modern merch has become its main act. Merch has always been a high-margin moneymaker, so a subtle but all-encompassing transformation of retail’s operating principle into merch makes economic sense. Through the process of transubstantiation from a youth culture artifact to a killer business model merch has bee
... See morefrom Everything Is Merch by Ana Andjelic
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The Internet empowered us to find our tribes. Retail isn’t keeping up.
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