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What will happen to Sweetgreen?
The 2010s’ favorite salad brand has a new look. Can it re-accelerate after a spoiled pandemic year?
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How Lovevery became new parents’ go-to subscription box
A business model that makes sense, to entertain and educate kids — and parents.
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Why there still haven’t been more billion-dollar acquisitions for direct-to-consumer commerce startups
Inside: Why Harry’s wants to buy your brand. Why two ex-Glossier execs stopped trying to create them. And how Facebook wants to eat it all.
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Why Sweetgreen just shredded its loyalty program
Also: How Nike wants to own the customer relationship — everywhere. And Squarespace’s pre-IPO bet on Tock.
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Goop Kitchen’s taste test
And a
Consumer Trends
update.
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New rules for the restaurant business
It’s time to think beyond being chefs and hosts and more like merchants, publishers, creators, and community leaders.
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Danny Meyer explains how the dining experience will change
Also: Shopify’s curious consumer brand.
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Cities aren’t over
But they’ll be different. It’s like a software update.
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Why Jon & Vinny’s LA restaurant group just bought a tiny grocery chain
In the Instacart era, “we feel that the neighborhood grocery is going to become important again.”
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From the Editor
Introducing the
Consumer Trends
2021 report
The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated huge shifts in consumer spending and behavior. Which will stick?
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Alex Mill creative director Somsack Sikhounmuong on designing clothing for our strange new reality
And: What a week!
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How Pineapple Collaborative uses big-brand sponsorships to fund indie content and commerce
When every brand is a media brand, more should consider media businesses.
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Apple’s viral widgets hit, what Nike learned this summer
I don’t think Apple was expecting this.
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Would you subscribe to these shoes?
The “end of ownership” is coming for your running gear.
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Travel is back*
(*Sort of.) And the customer is changing.
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The end of Need Supply
The “curator” business case for multi-brand e-commerce is disappearing.
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‘Another highly unusual quarter’
Amazon and Apple are going to be fine. But for local retail, Covid-19 is still in control of the narrative.
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Brands
Why natural deodorant is suddenly everywhere
Fueled by the desire to take better care of ourselves — or at least to think that’s what we’re doing.
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The real reason Big Food is going DTC
A tiny case study in Covid-era commerce.
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Ghia and the new sobriety
Another modern take on the nostalgic apéritif brand — this time, without alcohol.
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