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Incy Interiors to cease trading this month, starts closing down sale

Inside Retail

The owner of embattled furniture brand Incy Interiors has apologised to customers for lengthy delivery delays and says the retailer will work to fulfil all outstanding orders before shutting up shop. And I understand that, unfortunately, doesn’t help customers at the end of the day. We are just trying to them as quickly as possible.

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‘An exciting way to test a new market’: More fashion brands turn to rental

Inside Retail

Fulfilment by GlamCorner now sees the platform handling the logistics of clothing rental on behalf of fashion brands, including warehousing, cleaning, shipping and returns, and giving brands their own rental stores, which they can embed in their e-commerce sites and promote to customers. Camilla targets teen ‘formal’ shopper.

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How two sisters created Francesca Jewellery from a Tasmanian market stall

Inside Retail

A beading class in the rural town of Hawksnest, NSW, was the catalyst for sisters Rachel Vasieck and Hanna Vasieck to launch their on-trend designer jewellery label Francesca Jewellery in 2011. The Tasmanian brand opened its first store in Hobart in 2013, followed by a flagship store three years later at Melbourne Central.

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Exclusive Q&A: Marketplaces Large and Small Benefited from COVID Ecommerce Surge

Retail TouchPoints

If you look at U.S. Census Bureau Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales data going all the way back to 2011, ecommerce sales as a percentage of total retail sales increases relatively linearly through the beginning of 2020. Mike Shapaker: What we saw in 2020 is COVID-19 accelerating existing trends, so the answer is a bit of both.

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The Iconic culls 69 roles as it morphs from marketplace to platform

Inside Retail

All of the roles are at the head office level and some of the impacted staff may be redeployed to other parts of the business. Typically, a platform connects buyers and sellers leaving fulfilment to the vendor. Online fashion marketplace The Iconic has dissolved 69 staff roles, equivalent to 6 per cent of its workforce.

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Has Online Grocery Delivery Plateaued?

Retail TouchPoints

In 2011, less than 1% of grocery shopping was done online. For starters they need to look at the challenges people are facing as they shop. While fulfillment and delivery took center stage during the pandemic, it’s the experience of shopping that now matters. COVID obviously changed that, almost overnight.

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Is it Time for RFID to Shine?

Retail TouchPoints

However, with retailers feeling more pressure to streamline omnichannel fulfillment, supply chain visibility has risen to the top of the priority list. In 2021, the average cost of an RFID tag was four cents , down 80% from 2011, according to McKinsey. As a result, IDTechEx expects 39.3