E-Commerce & Retail

🚀 @shopthruxyz partnered with @iiiitsandrea’s @thesnaxshot and a number of the brands in their community to release the first set of Snicketts to the world! Wait, what are Snicketts? They’re beautiful, powerful, digital passes that unlock perks from businesses and brands. For… Show more

How to beat Amazon with your e-commerce startup: - Make it feel like a video game - Compete on community, not price - Ad-free - Spatial - Extra curated, extra niche - Education first, commerce second NEW: I just wrote a post on where ecomm is going

Hey #DeFi Twitter👋. What are the commerce related opportunities that you are most excited about? What role do you want Shopify to play?

Pinduoduo recently launched Duo Duo Maicai, which lets customers pick-up online orders from local shops. It was all analysts talked about on its Q3 earnings call last week and its stock jumped 30% the following two days. Quick thread:

Here are my thoughts on the Lululemon acquisition of Mirror. No, it's not about Mirror selling more clothes. It's about Lulu’s core business, physical store retail, being in bad shape and no matter how great the Lulu brand is, there are only so many pants a store can sell. 1/8

Free Shipping, Fast Shipping, and Free Returns are widely considered as table stakes in today’s eCom environment These customer-friendly policies are often a drag on profitability. Providing a path for customers to opt-out of expensive policies may open an avenue to profits

The next Amazon competitor is likely going to look like a social or video app, not a shopping app. Thread👇

Gradually, then Suddenly retail edition The graph below is of US ecommerce penetration “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” — Vladimir Lenin

I realized I made an error to FB/IG total and that the Mktg Cost line item should have been allocated to FB/IG And added $100 AOV to the title to better ground the % variable costs The story is the same, but its important to use this illustration vs OP as the mental model

The DTC winner of 2020 would be the marketplace for home improvement, interior design, and hardware. All of the modern brands in a central location. Key design categories: 1/ interior plants, pottery 2/ standing desks, ergonomic tools 3/ cookware storage 4/ children's edu tools