Everything the Internet did to media will happen to retail

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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