The way we shop has changed. Join us in exploring the good, the bad, and the ugly.

I think about Kim Kardashian’s closet a lot. No, I’m talking about Kardashian Kloset, the online marketplace that invites fans of the first family of reality television to buy items already worn by the entire Kar-Jenner clan, kids included. No returns, exchanges, refunds or cancellations.” Some may view this as just another branch of the growing family empire, but others, like fashion writer Emily Kirkpatrick, observe the endeavor as yet another grift: “There is absolutely nothing in this world these ladies won’t do for a check,” Kirkpatrick writes. It’s similar to how the rise of social media gave way to an era in which we can hear “directly” from celebrities themselves, without the mediation of paparazzi or People magazine. We live in a world that requires plastic cages in pharmacies and grocery stores across the country, leading us to more and more online-ordering—e-commerce sales accounted for $300 billion between July and September this year—which outsources simple tasks to underpaid drivers or cyclists who often work in awful conditions for any combination of the convenience apps we’ve adopted so willingly.