The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem
How online sales of highly regulated, super-toxic rodenticides exploit gaps in the law and imperil wildlife.
How online sales of highly regulated, super-toxic rodenticides exploit gaps in the law and imperil wildlife.
Chris Sweeney Audubon Dec 2021 Permalink
For 45 years, , Harmony Audio Video, has been my dad’s life: the reason he left home early every day, the reason he was chronically late to pick me up from school, the reason he didn’t take a single vacation for 25 years.
Francesca Mari The Atlantic Dec 2020 Permalink
The immersive mise en scène of a 2010 Hollister flagship store, redolent of California beach towns that don’t exist, “lazy, hygienic sexuality,” and weed.
Molly Young The Believer Sep 2010 10min Permalink
Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back.
Charles Duhigg New Yorker Oct 2019 50min Permalink
Patrick Bryne’s tenure at Overstock.com was already on the rocks, due to an all in bet on blockchain technology, before he admitted that he had an affair with the Russian operative Maria Butina.
Lauren Debter Forbes Aug 2019 Permalink
They travel America in vans and RVs stopping at Targets and Wal-Marts in search of rare soap and coveted toys to stock Amazon’s fulfillment warehouses.
Josh Dzieza The Verge Jul 2019 15min Permalink
As the last remaining Blockbusters shut their doors, a portrait of the customers, the staff, and what it was like as they were finally losing each other, after almost 30 years.
Justin Heckert The Ringer Jul 2018 35min Permalink
“From this day forward, Ken doesn’t always have to look like the most basic frat bro ever to get a B- in econ. He can be complicated, mysterious—maybe even vegan. No more Mr. Nice Ken. (Actually, he’ll still be very, very nice.)”
Caity Weaver GQ Jun 2017 15min Permalink
Supreme, founded by a secretive self-made millionaire in 1994, is the most influential streetwear brand in the world.
Kyle Chayka Racked Jul 2016 Permalink
The inside story of Target’s brief, disastrous expansion north.
Joe Castaldo Canadian Business Jan 2016 30min Permalink
Amazon, America’s most valuable retailer, is “conducting a little-known experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers, redrawing the boundaries of what is acceptable.”
Jody Kantor, David Straitfeld New York Times Aug 2015 25min Permalink
A former employee’s horror stories.
Two men, separated by more than 150 years, discover the folly of attempting Western-style capitalism in Micronesia.
Jonathan Gourlay The Morning News Apr 2014 25min Permalink
Notes from an anonymous Apple Store employee.
J.K. Appleseed McSweeney's Sep–Oct 2013 20min Permalink
The story of a risky management style gone bust.
Mina Kimes Businessweek Jul 2013 15min Permalink
A look at Apple stores, where jobs are high stress, with low pay and little opportunity for advancement.
David Segal New York Times Jun 2012 15min Permalink
An uncertain future for the retailer.
"Sears was so powerful and so successful at one time that they could build the tallest building in the world that they did not need," says James Schrager, a professor of entrepreneurship and strategy at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. "The Sears Tower stands as a monument to how quickly fortunes can change in retailing, and as a very graphic example of what can go wrong if you don't 'watch the store' every minute of every day."
Brigid Sweeney Crain's Chicago Business Apr 2012 15min Permalink
How KFC brought fried chicken to China and Africa as U.S. sales slumped.
Diane Brady Businessweek Mar 2012 10min Permalink
The demise of America’s favorite mega-bookstore and the factors beyond the e-book boom that fueled the book retail meltdown.
Ben Austen Businessweek Nov 2011 10min Permalink
Inside the cult appeal of the hit convenience mart/gas station Wawa.
Don Steinberg Philadelphia Magazine Jun 2011 15min Permalink
On “American Dream,” a mall under construction in New Jersey that will be the largest on Earth and feature an indoor skiing slope, a tropical area modeled on Hawaii, and a “TV screen that will make Times Square seem like a rec room from the seventies.”
Robert Sullivan New York Aug 2011 15min Permalink
How the mall was born.
Malcolm Gladwell New Yorker Mar 2004 25min Permalink
On Forever 21 and the rise of “fast fashion”:
They have changed fashion from a garment making to an information business, optimizing their supply chains to implement design tweaks on the fly.
Rob Horning n+1 Jun 2011 15min Permalink
Profile of the flip-flop wearing 61-year-old ‘dude’ who turned around a dying company by selling all-American sex to teens – and isn’t apologizing.
Benoit Denizet-Lewis Salon Jan 2006 Permalink
Tadashi Yanai (“he is like Warren Buffett in Japan”) takes his Uniqlo brand stateside.
Byrant Urstadt New York May 2010 20min Permalink