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Warby Parker, Casper, and Bonobos led a wave of sweeping disruption for consumer brands in the early 2010s. There’s an exciting new brand for every product category from toothpaste to air conditioners.

Ali Montag • Monopolies and Magnolias (Audio Edition)

from an online retailer to an online platform, which

Sunil Gupta • Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business

So it wasn’t all that surprising when Amazon aggressively entered the grocery market by buying Whole Foods in 2017 — which made the grocery chain Kroger’s stocks tumble 8% overnight.[1443] (Notice a pattern?)

Aditya Agashe • Swipe to Unlock: The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy (Fast Forward Your Product Career: The Two Books Required to Land Any PM Job)

“There are two kinds of retailers: there are those folks who work to figure how to charge more, and there are companies that work to figure how to charge less, and we are going to be the second, full-stop,”

Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

Smaller, pickup-only grocery stores could offer a few advantages, particularly in metropolitan areas. On the business side, they would reduce two of the biggest cost centers: headcount and footprint. Less expensive sub-street level space could be leveraged for storage, in addition to facilities outside a city. Customers could place orders ahead of ... See more

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The a16z Marketplace 100: 2020 | Andreessen Horowitz

Andrew Chen a16z.com

DoorDash is building its own network of dark stores (under the DashMart brand). Moreover, DoorDash is collaborating with retailers to help them master this new logistics format. Retailers act as wholesalers providing the products (inc. their private labels) and the delivery to the dark stores while DoorDash operates the dark stores and takes care o

Alexandre Dewez • 🌶 An Update on Grocery Quick Commerce

Retailers now and for the foreseeable future will live or die based on their ability to sift through mounds of data in order to create product and service offerings that resonate with their consumers. This includes dealing with the growing complexity of supply chain, inventory management, and more. At the same time, margins are being squeezed like ... See more

Sanford Stein • Retailing 2020 – 2030: taking a long view

Consumers today want more. They love Amazon’s laser-like focus on price, access, and convenience. But consumers yearn for the intimacy and craftsmanship they once knew from the Main Street merchant.