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🥰🥰 Greetings all. We’re back to commentary this week, leaving fiction behind us. A new entry in ‘The Bullshit Economy’ on how Amazon’s Sidewalk feature enhances their products at customers’ expense. 😈😈 It feels good to be bad. If you’ve been enjoying this bullshit, please consider forwarding it along to…

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 Doing things a bit differently this week. Here’s some fan fiction dedicated to the Kellogg’s cereal mascots.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 Speaking of Pride month, if you’re new here, I’d be proud to have you as a subscriber — — — Tony the Tiger arose that morning, poured himself a cup of joe and bemoaned the detritus on his coffee table… …When Count Chocula had abruptly left him, Tony’s affinity for tidiness and…

You down with DTC, ya you know me Scroll through Instagram or Facebook on any given day and you’re likely to see one: an advertisement for a direct to consumer (DTC) brand. DTC is a method of sales and supply chain management wherein products are sold directly to consumers by manufacturers — no wholesalers, no retailers, no middlemen…

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🏀🏀 It’s June and on first blush it may seem trite to be writing about Robinhood months after its self-inflicted GameStop debacle. Not so though because Robinhood’s unleashed a new ad airing during the NBA playoffs, which I’ve been watching intently thanks to my hometown Denver Nuggets.🏀🏀 We’re all a…

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