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Apple and Porsche both figured out the same secret that the cheapest product in the lineup can be the most exciting. It just takes a little intention.

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This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price .Read automotive and aftermarket news today on Wheel Front

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Grocery stores are seeing a significant shift in loyalty and spend. What's the next move?

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The Bargain Bin Evolves
2 Jun 2024
tedium.co

Thoughts on modern commerce from going to a bin store. It’s a place where e-commerce returns go to die.

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The economics of dollar stores
10 Apr 2024
thehustle.co

A visual explainer of the numbers behind America’s ubiquitous bargain-basement chains.

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Recent reports have tapped dollar stores as the top offenders of shrinkflation — even beyond grocery stores

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Discount chains are thriving — while fostering violence and neglect in poor communities.

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Hidden away in Juicero’s bad week of press is one of the most powerful lessons we preach to hardware startups: unconstrained development is…

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The ubiquitous dollar store is the American dream writ small.

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Proximity Designs is a for-profit design company whose goal is to create products cheap enough--and good enough--that they can be bought by poor farmers, instead of just giving them aid.

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Young Chinese are increasingly opting for simple, affordable wedding ceremonies. That’s leading many to the golden arches.

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Etsy seller Emily Odio-Sutton shares how she started, and grew, her lucrative print-on-demand side hustle — and offers tips for how to replicate her success.