Click here to view an archive of:
Investment Education
Book Recommendations
Food for thought
Glimpses into EdgePointers' lives
...and Daily Musings
__________________________
F.A.O Schwarz piano is back but with a different tune $(Link)
"To modernize the brand, the New York store will feature “Instagrammable moments” and soldiers’ uniforms designed by the supermodel Gigi Hadid. Other than its new flagship store in New York’s Rockefeller Center, many of the other locations will be owned and operated by other companies, while F.A.O. will collect franchising fees. The company wants its employees to bring a sense of “theater” when interacting with customers. Prospective hires, including cashiers and employees in charge of IT, had to audition for their jobs on stage at an Upper West Side theater earlier this fall."
China helping build panopticon $(Link)
"The company’s success is a marker for China’s race to build digital panopticons to keep watch over its 1.4 billion residents, with direct government support and fewer of the privacy concerns that tend to drive the debate around this kind of next-level surveillance."
Luxury consumption:
