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Everything the Internet did to media will happen to retail

Everything the Internet did to media will happen to retail

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Ana Andjelic
Jul 30, 2017
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History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes, Mark Twain famously said. There’s a rhyme between physical retailers and newspapers. Both have a fixed cost base with decreasing revenues. Both industries are going through a near-disappearance of physical distribution advantages.

There’s also unbundling and disaggregation among both of them. Retail and …

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