The people who built Etsy dreamed of remaking commerce with their bare hands. Fifteen years later, its sellers are being asked to compete with Amazon.
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IKEA has committed to becoming a circular business by 2030 – by eliminating waste and reusing resources
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Apple will give indie repair shops the tools to fix iPhones
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In defense of the department store bike
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Amazon has ceded control of its site to third-party sellers. The result: thousands of banned, unsafe or mislabeled products.
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Finland's grocery giants help consumers track climate impact of food
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What does Amazon's "Top Brand" badge actually mean?
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An armed man who caused panic at a Walmart in Missouri says it was a 'social experiment'
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How the ‘IKEA effect’ subtly influences how you spend
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Up to 40% of retail stores in Finland could go bust by 2030 – competition from online retailers will bring major upheaval
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In the flesh: Online brands promise an escape from the conventional logic of consumerism — until they open physical stores
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Norway's consumer watchdog has criticised fast-fashion chain H&M for misleading marketing of its sustainable collection
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The endless, invisible persuasion tactics of the internet
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Is fair trade finished? Fairtrade changed the way we shop. But major companies have started to abandon it and set up their own in-house imitations – threatening the very idea of fair trade.
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The world’s last Blockbuster has no plans to close
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The man who’s going to save your neighborhood grocery store
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Monolithic concrete forms associated with brutalist architecture inspired the interiors of Axel Arigato's Copenhagen flagship store
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EU opens Amazon antitrust investigation
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Road-tripping with the Amazon nomads - To stock Amazon’s shelves, merchants travel the backroads of America in search of rare soap and coveted toys
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How a grocery store's plan to shame customers into using reusable bags backfired
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Mississippi is forbidding grocery stores from calling veggie burgers “veggie burgers”
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Polish IKEA fires employee for Biblical opposition to pride event
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What happens after Amazon’s domination is complete? Its bookstore offers clues
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How the Swedish town of Eskilstuna became the world capital of recycling
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Shops full of vitamins, miracle pills 'trashing pharmacists' reputation'
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"Amazon's Choice" is given to products automatically and doesn't indicate quality - Many have troubling product defects and warnings, as well as review manipulation
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ThinkGeek is shutting down
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Don’t know which toaster to buy? There’s a website for that: When did recommendation sites become such a central part of the online economy? And are they changing the way we shop?
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Walmart wants employees to deliver products to your fridge - Available in three cities this fall
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Big Tech wanted to dethrone credit cards. Why it failed, and who wins now.
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The new recycling is called 'recommerce’
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Grocery stores are packed with plastic. Some are changing
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Avoiding "health washing" at the grocery store
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Meal kits have smaller carbon footprint than grocery shopping, study says
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The making of Amazon Prime - An oral history of the subscription service that changed online shopping forever
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The hyper-specialist shops of Berlin
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Buying from Amazon: Three steps to find what you need and avoid fake reviews | No Sweat Tech
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Walmart unveils an AI-powered store of the future, now open to the public
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The IKEA effect: how we value the fruits of our labour over instant gratification
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Meal kit delivery services like Blue Apron have an overall smaller carbon footprint than grocery shopping because of less food waste and a more streamlined supply chain
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The company that sells love to America had a dark secret
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The rise of ‘zero-waste’ grocery stores
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The zero-waste revolution: How a new wave of shops could end excess packaging
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Iraq's billion dollar used car parts paradise
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I just visited a retail marijuana store that uses Litecoin to accept debit cards
After all this time watching cryptocurrency from a distance, I have finally seen a real world use case. Marijuana is legal in this US state, however national banks are not allowed to service the...
After all this time watching cryptocurrency from a distance, I have finally seen a real world use case.
Marijuana is legal in this US state, however national banks are not allowed to service the marijuana industry due to federal law. Therefore all card processing is not available to the retail outlets. It’s only cash transactions at the retail level.
Until today. Today I was asked if I wanted to pay with a debit card. When I asked how, he said they used litecoin. So I imagine that the card is being run by a company which then converts it to litecoin to pay the merchant. Anyone have any clue on what that might cost the merchant as far as percentage?
I thought I would share this because after hearing all hype rollercoaster regarding cryptocurrency, I have finally seen a somewhat legitimate use of it in the real world.
Do you see any other use cases of crypto out in the wild these days?
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'We need to keep our language alive': Inside a Uyghur bookshop in Istanbul
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How supermarkets tempt you to spend more
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Your very public Amazon shopping history is a window onto your soul
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A eulogy for RadioShack, the panicked and half-dead retail empire
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Google is rolling out AMP for Gmail to let you shop and fill out forms without leaving your inbox
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