What I read this week...
Week 98
STRATEGY & MANAGEMENT
How Amazon Is Turning Streaming Into Shopping With ‘Shop The Show’ (Forbes)
“Prime Video’s “Shop the Show” expansion is a strategic initiative meant to capitalize on viewers’ hunger for personalized, imminent shopping experiences. By offering curated products based on popular shows and livestreams, Amazon is delivering a seamless, fully integrated shopping option to its users, pushing yet again the limits of traditional shopping experiences…”
Pop Mart is now worth more than the makers of Barbie, Hello Kitty, and Transformers — combined (Sherwood)
Why’s Mastercard betting big on Stablecoins? (Finshots)
AMD's $243 Billion AI Disaster...What Happened? (Logically Answered)
INDIA
Has the ONDC experiment failed? (Finshots)
“If retail’s struggling, why are mobility and logistics on the rise? …It all boils down to one thing. Simplicity. Booking a ride or scheduling a delivery is quick, clean and happens often. There’s no messy inventory, no returns, no fuss over product quality and way less hassle with refunds. And that makes it a perfect match for ONDC’s plug and play model…”
The Power of Few: How Just 18% of Brands Drive 80% of Blinkit's Sales (Datum)
ITC’s 24 Mantra deal and organic foods’ unending wait for glory (The Ken)
Strategic Musings
“We go through life thinking everyone else has it better than us until we grow up and realize we’re all in our own tiny boats of self-doubt and second-guessing.” — Alexi Pappas
Caught my eye…
