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How subscriptions took over our lives
How many subscriptions do you have? Netflix? Amazon Prime? Other? Here’s how they started taking over our lives – beginning when some of them became more like utilities.
(Read on Vox, approx 10 mins reading time)
A few major players have become so integral to people’s buying or streaming patterns, like Netflix or Amazon Prime, that consumers approach them almost as a sort of utility. Looking at a subscription landscape that included media, the global consulting firm McKinsey separated subscriptions into two general categories: direct-to-consumer box services, like weekly meal kits and monthly coffee deliveries, that improve a customer’s life or introduce them to new products and brands; and streaming media subscriptions. (Looking directly at e-commerce, they broke the categories down further, into product boxes for replenishment, for curation, and for access.)
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