Showing posts with label retailing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label retailing. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Mail order catalogs, downtown department stores, suburban malls, and modern home delivery

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 Here's a 10 minute video in which I discuss how retail markets have changed over the last century and more, with the invention of mail ...
Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Another mail order catalog throws in the towel (Sic transit gloria mundi .)

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  The mail order catalogs of Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward were as innovative in the late 1800's as Amazon is today, bringing reta...
Sunday, March 24, 2019

Do cashless stores hamper access by the poor?

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Are cashless stores discriminatory?  There's concern about that in Philadelphia, Massachusetts and elswhere.  The WSJ has the story: ...
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Brand names and informed consumers--pharmacists seem to like generic drugs

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Here's an illuminating look at the economics of brands, as in brand-name products, when there are close substitutes available. "...
Sunday, December 22, 2013

The evolution of eBay

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Once eBay was primarily an auction site...a story by Jeff Himmelman in the NY Times Sunday magazine brings us up to date:  EBay’s Strategy ...
Thursday, December 27, 2012

Returning items at stores in the US and Europe: two different equilibria?

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A recent article about the policies adopted by American stores regarding returns, particularly of gifts, has gotten me thinking about the di...
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Saturday, December 25, 2010

'tis the season to exchange gift cards

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Cardpool is making a market in gift cards, offering to buy yours, and sell you those cashed in by others. "You are always buying dire...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Flash sales--buying in a hurry

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Time Is Money ... "But commerce will always require the creation of scarcity, bottlenecks and stampedes. The most immediate way to do...
Friday, August 21, 2009

Hotel rooms and discounts

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I just received an ad by email for a prizewinning hotel in Boston. When I went to their website, I found that their seasonal room rate for a...
Saturday, August 15, 2009

Market for household staples

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Just as the pattern of demand for textbooks differs from demand for other books, household staples have a different pattern than other good...
Friday, April 10, 2009

Malls

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Shops provide positive externalities to each other. Both stores and restaurants like to be where there is good foot traffic from other resta...
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Market for recorded music

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Digital Sales Surpass CDs at Atlantic "Atlantic, a unit of Warner Music Group, says it has reached a milestone that no other major reco...
Sunday, October 12, 2008

Tipping--in restaurants

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The NY Times reports on the history of how that aristocratic European institution became an American custom: Why Tip? It was once widely reg...

Consumer goods in Gaza

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Ynet reports on the tunnel economy .

E-retailing

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The NY Times reviews some of the history of eBay and Amazon: Amid the Gloom, an E-Commerce War