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I'm probably too optimistic, but the current trend of drop-shipping, reselling, white-labeling, fake reviews, fake accounts, uncountable (fake-)brands and the w

by V__ 5y ago

I'm probably too optimistic, but the current trend of drop-shipping, reselling, white-labeling, fake reviews, fake accounts, uncountable (fake-)brands and the wave of advertisement (and retargeting) kinda has a beginning of the end feel to me. Like retail stores when they got complacent just before they got run over by Amazon. I just hope something new will come along soon. Who knows, maybe retail stores will somehow be able to capitalize on this.

Arnt 5y ago
Amazon had a goal of selling every product in the world. It's the end of that IMO. Facebook does much the same — it'll advertise anything, almost without exception. Selling everything invites people to extend "everything" in thereby place anything under an Amazon/Facebook logo. Letting anyone place anything under one's brand is not a traditional way to maintain brand value ;) https://archive.is/p68h1 https://archive.is/p68h1 BTW
webmaven 5y ago
> I just hope something new will come along soon. I have a feeling that the something new will be the sort of supply-chain verification that rules marks like 'fair trade', 'conflict free', etc. Any system that can verify the materials and labor practices along the supply chain will make it much more difficult to spoof the consumer.
- V__ 5y ago
  Interesting thought. Yeah, I could imagine that.