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The Community-Driven Store

Like Svpply.com, community-driven boutiques like ThisNext are user-curated sites in which products appear based on members’ recommendations. As with sites like ShopStyle, the site itself often doesn’t sell anything -- you click through to an item’s original retailer for that.

 

The idea is that by following other users and subscribing to particular categories -- say, Home and Garden -- shoppers both discover new products and become part of a community that shares their taste. There’s often a reward for becoming influential; the tastemakers who find the newest products first and come up with witty reviews can receive gift bags of products from the site, event invitations, and of course, discounts.

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Uploaded on March 17, 2011
Taken on March 17, 2011