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Amanda Mull

Amanda Mull

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America Is Nowhere Near Peak Stuff

What would it take for shoppers to get tired of cheap junk? In all the years I’ve spent covering American consumerism, I’ve heard one type of...

29.04.2024 60

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Tupperware Is in Trouble

We’re in a golden age for food storage. So why is America’s paradigmatic container brand failing? For the first several decades of my life, most...

12.04.2024 10

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Are You Legally Entitled to a Birkin?

This is what happens when wealthy shoppers run headlong into actual scarcity. Should you want to own an Hermès Birkin handbag, there are two main...

02.04.2024 20

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Sports Jerseys Really Are Getting Uglier

Fans are doomed to keep paying more for merchandise they want less. Last week, as American sports fans’ eyes moved from football to baseball, a...

21.02.2024 10

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Temu Is Speedrunning American Familiarity

The company’s ad strategy: bludgeon you into knowing its name. Last night, the shopping app Temu, which is not quite a year and a half old, ran its...

13.02.2024 6

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The Lab-Diamond Revolution That Won’t Happen

The traditional diamond industry is thought to be under threat from lab-grown stones. But that’s not how luxury works. Last year, a funny thing...

07.02.2024 10

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Stanley Cups Are Fine

No one can truly explain the cup’s feverish popularity. And no one has to. The world can be a baffling place. That’s true in many important...

19.01.2024 5

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Home Influencers Will Not Rest Until Everything Has Been Put in a Clear Plastic Storage Bin

Restocking season is getting out of hand. Now that the frenzy of the holidays has spat you out into the harsh light of the new year, you might be...

08.01.2024 10

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Gadgets Never Died. They Just Became Beauty Products.

We’re in a golden age of gadgets for girlies. Every time I see a high schooler on TikTok flying through a tutorial of how she gets perfect beach...

21.12.2023 3

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Is This How Amazon Ends?

An open embrace of cheap foreign products has helped Amazon take over the world. It also might guarantee Amazon’s eventual obsolescence. When...

14.12.2023 10

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This Is What Happens to All the Stuff You Don’t Want

I ventured into the belly of the holiday-returns beast. When you order a pair of sweatpants online and don’t want to keep them, a colossal, mostly...

11.12.2023 10

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How to Sell a Rock

The diamond industry achieved what is arguably the most successful corporate-marketing campaign of all time. This is an edition of Time-Travel...

07.12.2023 6

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Online Shopping Is Too Fast for Good Decisions

Please, at least make me type in my shipping address. I’ve made many impulse purchases in my life, but the first one that I found genuinely...

21.11.2023 10

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The Junk Is Winning

TikTok’s experiment in shopping has quickly become another place to hawk products. TikTok would like to sell me a brush. Or, more specifically, an...

25.10.2023 3

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Self-Checkout Is a Failed Experiment

Please, not another “unexpected item in the bagging area.” When self-checkout kiosks began to pop up in American grocery stores, the sales pitch...

18.10.2023 200

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What Happened to Sweaters?

The quality of knitwear has cratered. Even expensive sweaters have lost their hefty, lush glory. In much of the United States, you can already feel...

10.10.2023 10

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Millennials Have Lost Their Grip on Fashion

Ballet flats are back. Are you old enough to know better? Ballet flats are back. Everyone’s saying it— Vogue , the TikTok girlies, The New York...

21.09.2023 20

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Do Not Underestimate the To-Do List

Make my brain function: check. Productivity is a sore subject for a lot of people. Philosophically, the concept is a nightmare. Americans invest...

14.09.2023 10

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