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    Marketwatch rightly notes that there is a subscription box service for everything these days, from a “salami of the month” club to beauty products to toys for a pet. In fact, Americans made about 21.4 million visits to subscription box retailers’ websites in January 2016, up from only 722,000 visits in January 2015, according to the e-commerce and consumer analytics company Connexity’s Hitwise division, in a report for the research firm Euromonitor International.


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