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Birchbox Cuts About 12% of Staff
- therobot24 10y agothese monthly box things are great for xmas gifts, but get old fast
- ProAm 10y agoAnd are usually significantly overpriced.
- AznHisoka 10y agoI was a member of dollar shave club then realized it took me half a year to use just 1 box. I'm quite lazy and the razors are incredibly frustrating to open so I end up just using 1 as long as possible. So I just quit my subscription and when I need new razors I sign up again. Funny thing is the first month they always give you a free shaver with the razors so it works out well for me. I want my money's worth, damn it.
- zippergz 10y agoI have at least 15 packs of those blades in my house. I finally got around to canceling...
- loeg 10y agoJust buy directly from Dorco on Amazon as needed. Dollar Shave just rebrands Dorco products and marks them up.
- wp1 10y agoI've always been impressed that Dollar Shave Club was able to build a business around selling a single product available on Amazon for a higher price.
- Scoundreller 10y agoI see the humour in it, but Amazon calls it a "reusable" good.
- cylinder 10y agoWhy wouldn't you just buy razors at once in bulk? I can't figure out why Dollar Shave exists.
- crisopolis 10y agoWhy must we always link to Pay Wall articles... :'(
- mikek 10y agoSearch for the article in Google to get around the paywall.
- dexterdog 10y agoIt still throws up the paywall for me. This article probably has the same info minus the annoyance: http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20160628/TECHNOLOGY/160629842/with-sales-struggling-subscription-makeup-seller-birchbox-cuts-more-staff http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20160628/TECHNOLOGY/160...
- gortok 10y agoFor WSJ if you click the 'web' link above you'll get taken to the Google result page for this article.
- dangoldin 10y agoAnother way is add /amp/ to the URL before /articles (ie http://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/birchbox-cuts-about-12-of-staff-1467136592 http://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/birchbox-cuts-about-12-of-st...). Sometimes it will do a subscription request but there are ways around that as well if you look at the network inspector to see what it's requesting..
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- rhapsodic 10y agoClick the web link. Then click news on the Google search page.
- tarr11 10y agoI wish paywalled articles would link automatically to the web link, it would save time.
- slowandlow 10y agoI had a phone interview with them and then checked their glassdoor. Needless to say I'm not surprised about this.
- brogrammernot 10y agoI've been a subscriber since nearly the beginning but I'm not renewing. The service itself has become incredibly subpar and they've screwed up quite a few times. Add in the fact that they force you to use points or they expire and the products are always overpriced. They had a bunch of customers and I imagine I'm not the only one who no longer sees the value. This tells me more about their product no longer holding the same value more so than the current technology situation.
- colept 10y agoSame experience here. I regret buying a yearly subscription as I just received the same product two months in a row and another one I got a couple months back.
- grandalf 10y agoI got the man box and was pleasantly surprised that I actually ordered some of the items (after a few boxes not ordering anything). It's a shame they are losing Liz Crawford, she's top notch. I'll be curious to see where she ends up next.
- ryanSrich 10y agoHow in the world is duplication not something they check for?
- mrgreenfur 10y agoMaybe the 'box' industry will finally tone it down a bit. Who really needs this kind of stuff so frequently?
- gdilla 10y ago"rethink cost structures" - says the CEO. Well, don't be in manhattan. Go to Nebraska or Idaho or something.
- bkjelden 10y agoBulu Box[0] is a subscription box startup that did exactly that (headquartered in Lincoln, NE). [0]:http://www.bulubox.com/ http://www.bulubox.com/
- HelloImDumb 10y agoWow, you have a box subscription for snake oil and diet pills? Sign me up!
- sotojuan 10y agoIs there any precedent of a start up doing this? I'd imagine a lot of their engineer talent would be lost, but I'm happy to be proved wrong.
- throwawaysocks 10y agoThere's a difference between losing engineering talent and not being able to get engineering talent.
- pbreit 10y agoI don't think there'd be much trouble on the engineering side. Let's be honest, there's not much tech in box-o-the-month services. It's the business and marketing folks that benefit from being in the dynamic cities.
- programminggeek 10y ago"X startup cuts 10-15% of staff" seems to be a meme lately.