Inside Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A few years ago, it seemed like every new brand making noise in the market was adopting a direct-to-consumer (DTC) business model. Like many trends, the discourse around DTC is a rollercoaster, ranging from ‘DTC is dead!’ to ‘Look at this amazing DTC brand! Everyone should do this.’ million before going public in 2020.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 15, 2023

In fact, the number of high street phone shops has plummeted 38% over the past five years, dropping from just over 10,000 in 2017 to just over 6,000 in 2023, data from the Local Data Company shows. That’s not to say the mobile phone shop is dead.

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Retail Prophet

JULY 18, 2022

A shock to the system of western merchants and consumers who had largely operated with an assumption of unconstrained access to whatever they’ve wanted, whenever they’ve wanted it. But in the process also opened global consumer markets to risks that would make the cotton collapse of 1861 look like a picnic. Image Credit: Hip To Save).

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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

Consumer expectations have evolved in the digital age, and retailers are now offering a multitude of flexible order delivery methods such as “Buy online, pick up in-store”, “curbside pickup”, “order in store, deliver home” and more. So how can retailers offer these options to consumers while lowering their costs?

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Retalon

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The marketing and loyalty department provide consumer/promotion data, the POS system provides sales/returns data. How to you distribute/allocate inventory to stores while considering dozens of factors such as geo-demographic diversity, store capacity, consumer demand, local promotions, and special/rare events (eg.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The marketing and loyalty department provide consumer/promotion data, the POS system provides sales/returns data. How to you distribute/allocate inventory to stores while considering dozens of factors such as geo-demographic diversity, store capacity, consumer demand, local promotions, and special/rare events (eg.

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Retail Geek

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Mark is an experienced Marketplace seller, and his current business Guardian Baseball is a hybrid seller selling both wholesale and owned brands direct to consumer from a Shopify site, and via multiple marketplaces including Amazon. Matt: [11:33] Applesauce back and everything yeah I’m the Costco dead.

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