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The end of Need Supply
- Multi-brand stores no longer serve the purpose that they once did. Why do we need them now?
from The End of Opening Ceremony Marks the End of Shopping As We Know It by Business of Fashion
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- Perhaps the demise of traditional retail and media can be explained by the Internet offering better alternatives for curating your own community of like-minded people/products and removing most of the friction around connecting.
from The Internet empowered us to find our tribes. Retail isn’t keeping up. by Julie Thibault
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- 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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- By creating unlimited shelf space and reducing information asymmetries, power in the internet age is shifting from suppliers to customers. The world is increasingly demand driven. Customers have more choices than ever before. They can buy anything, at any time. Through the internet, brands can serve a long-tail of unmet consumer needs, which weren’... See more
from What the Hell Is Going On? by David Perell
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- Today, Curators could set up their ecommerce operation without leaving their living room. They could source inventory through wholesale sites (Faire, Taobao, JD.com), dropship products to a fulfilment service (Shipbob, ShipHero), set up a digital storefront and handle payments (Shopify, Stripe), and even outsource their marketing and creative needs... See more
from The Curator Economy: A Retail Revolution (Part II) by Tara Tan
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The future of fashion shopping online is where content, community, and (re)commerce collide. Younger consumers are looking for a safe, “third space” online to express their authentic style and to shop cute clothes from trusted peers.
from Goodwill Hunting #21: joining a startup by Danielle Vermeer
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