Gilt Chairman: Online Shops Of The Future Will Be Like Games

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1. Gilt chairman Susan Lyne just gave an interview to BigThink, the video interview site, on the future of commerce. According to her, the future of commerce will involve three things. Two of those things happen to be things that Gilt is really good at, but the third caught our attention (the items are hers, but the commentary is ours): Curation. What differentiated online commerce at the beginning was unlimited inventory. Now that we've gotten used to that, the differentiation is going to be the reverse: carefully curated selection. Content. Content and commerce are becoming more linked together. People buy ... (Read Full Article)

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