💩Retail, the Internet, China & Counterfeiting (Long Unscrupulousness).💩
This is a story about S’well. It illustrates just how vicious competition is today. And made even more vicious by (i) “signaling” and ease of discovery (lots of likes on Instagram), (ii) shady-AF Chinese manufacturers (producing legit product by day, extra off-the-truck product by night), and (iii) Amazon Inc.’s ($AMZN) failure to police third-party sel…