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Live shopping can extend across many retail categories
Live shopping can extend across many retail categories
LaFontaine believes products that benefit from explanation, personality, or storytelling are well suited to live shopping, broadly suggesting that categories capable of supporting a physical retail shop can also work on Whatnot.
- Speaker
- Grant LaFontaine
- Topic
- Category Expansion
- Source timestamp
- 27:57
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