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Writing with a focus on urbanism, culture, and popular history. I write The Deleted Scenes, a daily, mostly-urbanism newsletter on Substack. a.delmastro2@gmail.com.
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interesting about the timeline with that! given our ages, I can see why it might seem to us that stores like that were just a given that always existed (until they didn't)
Show PostI know the dot com isn't actually a hugely significant part of their business at this point but the "anybody can sell anything" on here approach seems disastrous in the long term.
Show PostIf I want uncurated slop, Temu is honestly a lot more fun.
Show PostShort term gain over long term viability, also "eliminate competition then degrade".
Show PostA funny example: I was trying to find my octogenarian Canadian father a new hockey book for his birthday on Amazon (because I'm a dumbass who needs the one-day delivery). I had to search through 100s of AI-generated hockey romances and I still couldn't find actual non-fiction hockey books.
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