As we discussed in last week’s essay, Instagram is both a blessing and a curse for Shopify. On the one hand, it is the perfect discovery channel for the type of products that are typically sold by Shopify merchants: visually appealing objects you didn’t even know you wanted (fashion, homeware, furniture, etc). On the other hand, too much reliance o... See more

Interestingly, Nike has been pulling out of what it calls “undifferentiated retail”: stores that are too broad in their target customer. One example of this is when they pulled their products out of Amazon.

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