The Online Shopping Boom Is Over w/ Amanda Mull

The Online Shopping Boom Is Over w/ Amanda Mull

Paris Marx is joined by Amanda Mull to discuss the history of consumerism and where ecommerce goes in the next few years as interest rates rise and its market share stalls. Amanda Mull is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she writes the Material World column. She’s also a shop steward at The Atlantic Union. Follow Amanda on Twitter at @amandamull.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.Also mentioned in this episode: Amanda has written about consumerism, buying less junk, the pivot to TikTok, and why free returns are coming to an end. Paris wrote about the problem with Apple’s town square store concept. Amazon curtailed massive warehouse expansion plans it made early in the pandemic. Lauren Smily wrote about the shut-in economy in 2015. William Leach wrote Land of Desire: Merchants: Power and the Rise of a New American Culture. Support the show

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