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Future Commerce™ Podcast: eCommerce, DTC and Retail Strategy

Feat. Candan Erenguc, COO @ Anthropologie
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Trusted brands trust Future Commerce™

Our subscribers include executives and leaders from the world's most storied and influential brands, whose perspectives shape the future of commerce.

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Our ability to worldbuild isn’t just limited to the confines of our own minds. AI platforms like ChatGPT are showing us firsthand how, with the right technology, our innermost thoughts, beliefs, and feelings can be actualized.
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Alicia Esposito
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Step By Step

Short, tactical seasons that get you up to speed on eCom's most timely concepts. Fast.

In 5 quick episodes per season, we tackle the core concepts of eCommerce growth: from ads to payments, shipping, and global cross-border expansion.

Each season delivers practical guidance in plain language, giving DTC, retail, and eCom operators the tactics they need to move with confidence.
August 14, 2025
[STEP BY STEP] Beyond the Store Floor: Designing Omnichannel Loyalty from the Inside Out
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Decoded

Deep-dive seasons that break down today’s biggest marketing challenges.

In just one week each season, we decode one complex idea — from CRO and CX to social commerce, software strategy, and Positionless Marketing.

Each season brings together research and expert voices to help you understand not just the tactics, but the strategy behind eCommerce growth.
August 30, 2025
[DECODED] The Power of AI-Enabled Ambition
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LORE Journal

Stories that redefine how we think. A high-end print journal featuring 280+ pages of exclusive essays, brand-building insights, and commerce psychology—crafted for forward-thinking leaders. LORE is your guide to building brands that belong—brands that tell stories, forge movements, and leave a legacy.
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Muses Journal

Brands are a form of modern Muse, propelling the stories of their customers forward. In our annual print Journal we explore the Modern Muses—the builders, creators, designers, and artists, that are shaping Commerce.
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VISIONS: Volume IV

VISIONS: Volume IV explores this change through the lens of "modern prophets" — media theorists — who foresaw the world we now inhabit, and does so with an innovative, multiplayer, multi-modal format.
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Future Commerce is a media company focused on helping retailers and eCommerce operators understand the future of commerce and culture.

Our editorial insights, strategic analysis, and original reporting help modern brand marketers shape the future of their retail and DTC businesses.

1. Our mission

Future Commerce helps brands manifest vision and create goals which lead to future-altering impacts for their customers and for the world around them.

With our platform, we’re helping to elevate brands who are using their most powerful tool - commerce — to bring about the change they wish to see in the world.

Forget trying to predict the future. Shape your future.

2. The future of commerce is what you make it

We’re more than a podcast, newsletters, and reports. We are a collective of eCommerce operators who have helped to build digital commerce channels for some of the world’s most recognizable brands.

The future of your digital commerce channel depends on having the insights into trends, consumer confidence, sentiment analysis, and emerging psychographics of the customers your brand is trying to reach. We help to shape your worldview by providing you with stories from other retail brand builders.

3. The future commerce manifesto

Commerce connects people. Commerce is vital to our existence and to participate in community and society.

Therefore, people deserve to participate in society and community without the influence or control of systems and platforms that use subversive and manipulative techniques to persuade them. These techniques can be as overt as trustwashing (i.e. Greenwashing, Wokewashing) or can be as subversive as dark patterns (like confirm shaming). Consumers should have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

Consumers should have a reasonable expectation to choose to not be surveilled. Consumers should be treated as people, rather than purchases. Not all interactions must drive towards the sale. Not all marketing needs to build FOMO.

This is our mounting philosophy: Modern brands must play the long game. Building a cultural brand, or a generational brand, requires adapting with the culture and changing times. Customer lifetime value happens over the lifetime of the relationship with the customer, not the number that changes in Power BI or Google Analytics.

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