Tag: e-commerce

China’s largest e-commerce company is not only changing the way people in China shop, but how they think about commerce and each other in a Communist country.

Hammacher Schlemmer, which publishes America’s longest-running catalog, still takes its product descriptions seriously.

They had a small inkling of what they wanted to do. At the time, flash-sale startups like Gilt were just beginning to make some noise, and Cavens and Vadon seriously considered aping the model for the home and beauty space (a la One Kings Lane) before scrapping the idea. “What we came to realize in […]