posted: 23 August, 2019

Welcome to ThisIsRetail, your weekly look at some of the more diverse and unexpected stuff influencing the way we buy, sell, and consume in the 21st century.

Disruptors are all well and good when they’re messing with someone else’s crappy business model. But the minute they start messing with our food, our music or our movies they’re going to find themselves in a world of pain.

This week we’ve been thinking about the unhappy accidents, unintended consequences, and downright unacceptable outcomes disruptors have caused.

Netflix. Spotify. Deliveroo. Sort it out.

Joseph

• The Spotify Effect
  Without ownership, there’s no incentive to study.
  [Financial Times]

• The Food of Love
  Why so many restaurants play indie rock from circa 2012.
  [Eater]

• Eat or be Eaten
  The foodoo economics of meal delivery.
  [The Economist]

• Pork Pies
  Chain restaurants are selling dishes under different brand names on Deliveroo. Consumers have no idea.
  [Vice]

• Netflix v Cannes
  Inside the battle for the future of cinema.
  [Financial Times]

• Grateful Dead
  In the age of Netflix, dead authors have never had it so good.
  [Financial Review]

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