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Reports: Chinese Ecommerce Player Pinduoduo Launches U.S. Site

Retail TouchPoints

The site offers items across categories including apparel, jewelry, pet supplies and home and garden, many at bargain prices. Temu’s site shows average shipping times to most of the U.S. Founded in 2015 , Pinduoduo has focused on lower-income customers and the agricultural sector.

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How Sephora Turned Order Fulfillment into a Loyalty-Builder

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Although her Wall Street background gave her a clear advantage in finance, her time working under Mary Beth Laughton — Sephora’s VP of Ecommerce at the time — unlocked new career possibilities. I raised my hand, said I believed there was a role there, and we have been chipping away at our omnichannel experience since.”

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Monica + Andy Founder Details Multiple Expansion Paths for Baby Retailer

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Unlike many DTC brands that were born online and later found their way into physical retail, Monica + Andy has had a strong brick-and-mortar presence almost since its 2015 founding. As we have surveyed our customers, they’ve told us to ‘sell us more and tell us more.’ How do we think about ourselves?

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Subscription Pro Tips: Encourage Loyalty and Long-Term Relationships by Making it Easy to Cancel

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Subscriptions can be tricky business, not least because most consumers at one time or another have had a bad experience with a subscription service. That has not stopped consumers from subscribing though, especially with the rise of new takes on the model (box services, auto shipping and streaming TV, to name just a few).

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Inside the rise of the ‘art-lennial’

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The partnership makes StockX the official resale marketplace for Daniel Arsham editions and establishes a Daniel Arsham x StockX Next Gen Scholarship Fund at New York’s historic Cooper Union, a private college renowned for its art and architecture courses. That’s something we did from the very beginning,” he said.

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How pop-ups helped inform Kat the Label’s new flagship store in Melbourne

Inside Retail

Founder and designer Kate Nixon said that the business started in Byron Bay in 2015, with her hand-making lace bralettes and posting products online. It’s a personal shopping experience that’s high-end, but at an affordable price point, [and] we think we’ve got a good niche market going.”. From pop-ups to a permanent location.

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How to solve the information gap around delivery costs

Inside Retail

With online sales growing at an average rate of almost 65 per cent year on year in Australia, according to the ABS, delivery is now a mission critical part of the business. That’s fantastic, but when you look at your cost structure, 10-30 per cent of it can be freight. Most retail businesses focus on their product or marketing.