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What happened to Great Jones?
Unpacking the DTC cookware darling’s sale to one of its suppliers. And an industry primer from Made In CEO Chip Malt.
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Austin’s retail offensive
SoCo is the new SoHo — or something. Also: Lululemon on fire, Van Leeuwen’s artsy ice cream, and YouTube’s taking share.
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Consumer behavior is ‘difficult to predict at best right now’
Notes from Target and Walmart earnings. Also: Robot salads, Drizly data, and Instacart’s early vision for AI-native grocery shopping.
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Can canned beans have their tinned-fish moment?
Also: Ghia’s latest bottle design (and numbers). And, what’s Magic Spoon working on?
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Foxtrot has a new CEO. What’s changing and what isn’t?
And: A few notes from Aesop’s $2.5 billion sale.
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From the Editor
Introducing the
Consumer Trends
Food & Wellness Special Report
We’re at an inflection point: Health is wealth, and food is medicine.
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Why every new restaurant feels like an old diner
What’s behind the lunch-counter renaissance? Nostalgia, but also a desire to do the simple things well.
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The things that inspired me in 2022
A year-end gift guide for the mind.
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How to get into big retail when you’re a tiny new startup
Graza plans to have its squeeze-bottle olive oil in 2,000 stores around its first birthday.
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Supermarket smash!
Thinking through Kroger’s $25 billion deal for Albertsons. Also: A subscription pilot for unlimited (great!) coffee in LA. And a simpler plan for Instagram commerce.
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Brands
Foxtrot is the store that every neighborhood deserves
Can Chicago’s upmarket convenience chain scale across the country?
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Riding out the e-commerce dip
Are we in the early stages of an e-commerce recession? Or just a few short-term bumps?
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The Shopify-Facebook collision course
Also: NYC retail is back! Target’s genius branding move. And Cometeer’s new in-store pilot.
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How Food52 became the most interesting acquirer of consumer brands
And: The thinking behind Harry’s first brand acquisition.
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Sweetgreen’s new ‘Sweetpass’ is a hint of things to come
Think of this as an example mini-game in the personalized future of marketing.
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Warby Parker proves that the Warby Parker model works — for Warby Parker
Warby’s pitch to investors today, ahead of its direct listing, is remarkably similar to its pitch from more than a decade ago.
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Is 15-minute grocery delivery a brand or a feature?
Look out, Safeway. Gorillas is coming.
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Blue Bottle is testing oat milk ‘as the default option’
Also: Lunch is back! And more of Chipotle’s reopening takeaways.
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What will Instacart become?
The online grocery service has a new CEO, with a massive opportunity — and big questions — ahead.
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Goop Kitchen’s taste test
And a
Consumer Trends
update.
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