February 05, 2019
Target Turns To eCommerce Merchants For A Millennial Edge
Brick-and-mortar retailers are bringing direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands into their stores to reach younger consumers who don’t want to use the same brands as their parents, with Target selecting women’s body...
January 31, 2019
Can Amazon Break Into Beauty?
Beauty is a big and booming global business. According to some estimates, the size of the global beauty and personal care products market will hit $716.6 billion by 2025, registering...
January 28, 2019
Amazon Grows Exclusive Product Lines From Outside Brands
Amazon wants to get more exclusive — and it wants other companies to help with that effort by developing product lines meant to be sold only via the eCommerce operator....
January 21, 2019
DTC Brands Tell Amazon Thanks, But No Thanks
Amazon has been heavily courting some direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands – inviting them to its headquarters, paying for dinner and letting them fill their carts with gear from Amazon Go shops....
January 07, 2019
Burrow’s Couch-In-A-Box Unpacks The Showrooming Sofa Experience
According to recent research from Furniture Village, the average couch has a much fuller and longer life than you probably realize. Over the course of its 11-year life it will host...
January 04, 2019
Dagne Dover’s Function-Focused Handbags Disruption
Before Melissa Mash was CEO of up-and-coming DTC handbag company Dagne Dover, she’d spent a surprising amount of time in retail. As a college undergrad, she found internships with a...
January 03, 2019
Why Everlane Thinks Retail Needs Rethinking
While any number of brands now market their wares on sustainability, inclusivity and transparency as of 2019, when Everlane was first getting off the ground in 2011, those buzzwords were...
December 27, 2018
Purple Mattress’s Path Through The Crowded Direct-To-Consumer Mattress Market
The mattress market in the United States has become a shocking competitive place. Once dominated by a sales model largely dependent on consumer confusion and complex sales calendars has in...
December 12, 2018
How Will 5G Shake Up Banking And FinTech?
Financial institutions are in the midst of becoming more mobile, with many of those legacy operations opting to work more closely with FinTech providers to upgrade services, retain customers and...