Adrianna Tan
Sometimes I get really mad at the $15 bagel in San Francisco / Oakland but that food in every major global city sort of keeps pace with each other, because the business of commercial real estate is full of the same parasitic private equity global commons.
Same shit everywhere*
* I randomly define this as any city with a nonstop flight from Hong Kong / London / New York
Adrianna Tan
You know the concept of ‘shoppy shops’ — there are also brandy brands, like the Graza olive oil, Fishwife cans, doesn’t matter the brand there’s the same brandy brand sold in the same shoppy shop next to the same industrial chic coffeey coffee shops
Adrianna Tan
Thinking of the upper middle class elites I know in Singapore who vacation in Tokyo and Paris like it’s the next town they drive to, these consumer goods serve the same type of global asshole (I count myself among them)
Adrianna Tan
Even in Beijing and Bangalore you can see the same things. Same food, same decor
D2
@skinnylatte noticed this recently… a small boutique with obscure edgy-humor products, then a near-identical selection in a shop 600 miles away. “Hmm, who’s your wholesaler?’
Adrianna Tan
Shoppy shop has a wiki page
Adrianna Tan
I think an interesting way to track this would be to build a ‘third wave coffee’ index just like the Big Mac Index. How much does an oat milk latte cost in every major global city? I think we will find it costs around the same. In absolute amounts
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