Inside Retail

APRIL 1, 2025

Clinton Cahn, CEO of The Reject Shop, noted that there has been a rise in demand for everyday essential items, whereas its discretionary range showed a drop-off in demand, which affected margins. Putting older products through markdowns might not necessarily be the trigger [either], as customers want a quality product.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Manufacturers and retailers of products that rely on touch as a selling point (think apparel, décor and furniture) have faced some of the highest hurdles erected by COVID-19. It was the same concept — made-to-order upholstery that we drop-shipped direct to the consumer. You also save on the cost of doing photo shoots.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Retailers, particularly those in the apparel, footwear and soft goods verticals, have an opportunity to turn the lemons from COVID-19 into lemonade, according to Keith Jelinek and Richard Maicki, Managing Directors in the Performance Improvement Practice of Berkeley Research Group (BRG). What can the retailer learn from and improve?

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2021

The platform launched two months later with vetted sellers across a set of targeted categories including apparel, home, beauty and accessories. For some companies this does mean pushing through some conservatism and realizing that more sellers equals more GMV and a more satisfying experience for customers,” said Sawyer.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2020

RetailNext found that Black Friday store traffic dropped by 48% year over year, with jewelry (-53.5%), footwear (-52.8%) and apparel (-50.2%) seeing the most significant drops. As we get past those final shipping deadlines, curbside pickup is going to become the preferred and predominant way to get those online orders.”

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2023

Consumers expect convenient, interactive shopping experiences, from online to in-store and everything in between. This year, 3D and AR adoption is expected to be one of the biggest trends for providing next-gen ecommerce experiences, especially for apparel and footwear brands looking to bring the physical world to digital shopping.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2020

Returns Abuse And Customer Expectations. For example, consumers shopping for apparel and accessories frequently use in-store and online returns and deem these options to be very important (55%). Due to the coronavirus, retailers saw a drop in returns abuse in the early part of 2020, driven primarily by the drop in transactions overall.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2021

This was rendered possible as retailers and brands offered low-cost shipping, unlimited holding periods and easy returns. Whether it takes the form of prepaid return labels, easy return drop-off locations or returns packaging, the consumer expects to be able to send back inventory — for whatever reason or no reason at all.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 12, 2024

For example, many consumers associated memberships with access, either through unique benefits, physical locations or even product drops. “A Birchbox gave more consumers access to luxury beauty products at a fraction of the price, while BarkBox promised dog parents (and their furry counterparts) a new toy and treat combo every month.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 2, 2023

Three companies in the space — intimates brand ThirdLove , Shopify aggregator Win Brands Group and apparel brand U.S. With our infrastructure, we were able to take the sourcing overseas with great partners that we’ve worked with for years and drop the cost of goods on that product by more than half.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Leslie Hand, GVP of IDC Retail Insights, discusses the new parameters of the customer experience: “Think about the enhanced customer experience through one-to-one mobile and one-to-many streaming content personalization capabilities — we’re starting to see that pop up. Key Ecommerce and Digital Marketing Trends.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 9, 2023

What this highlights is an opportunity for the retail industry that is waiting to be grabbed – combining physical stores and digital technology to provide enhanced or brand-new and innovative customer experiences. And, a brand that is leading the pack is Gymshark. over the previous two years.

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Indigo 9 Digital

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But in 2020 Marks & Spencer opened up its website to outside apparel brands. In a small pilot that took place in October of 2020, where Marks & Spencer sold womenswear brand Nobody’s Child on its website, Marks & Spencer found that close to 10% of customers who bought the brand were new to Marks & Spencer womenswear.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Some factors affecting this decision include the proximity of the storage location to the customer, inventory availability, and the labour involved. Methods are established to transfer inventory from storage to customer. Customer preference (fulfillment). Ideally, inventory is available in the location nearest to the customer.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 23, 2025

Those boxes will then be shipped back to the retailers where the products originated, in the never-ending ebb and flow of goods sold-shipped-returned-resold that is commerce today. Image courtesy Happy Returns) Along one side of the warehouse floor are a series of truck bays where UPS drivers drop off boxes from the Return Bars.

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Store Growers

JUNE 24, 2023

Shipping & Tax Errors Here, I’ll cover the most common errors that occur with shipping and tax, such as missing shipping information and shipping weight attribute, sub-attributes for the shipping attribute , missing value for the tax attribute, and lack of sub-attributes for it. How to fix it?

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Jason: [2:13] Yeah all that’s gone now it’s just a chunk of aluminium but I’m excited to get mine I have a little jealousy because I feel like we both ordered early on launch day and I think yours already shipped is that true. So and it’s a very. [49:23] So and it’s a very. [49:23]

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Retail Geek

APRIL 7, 2023

And you know a bunch of these guys are kind of stumbling like the the amount of eyeballs you have to sell like drop off really fast after you get pissed Amazon and Walmart, um and so you know it the fragmentation problem becomes a real problem for. Meta did a keynote and they talked a lot about. [42:31]

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 4, 2021

You’re relatively simple product like an electronic toy or an apparel item or almost anything it’s going to have first of all it. 15:57] We just opened up here a restaurant container Village kind of a thing so you have those containers their specialized boats that carry these and and or you can put them on airplanes.

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Retail Geek

MARCH 11, 2022

you know some some different perspectives and some novel stuff and I did record a couple podcast there so listeners have that to look forward to will drop those over the next few weeks and so some good. it’s kind of like a multi-channel shipping solution so they’ve you and I have long.

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Retail Bound

MAY 22, 2022

For this and other reasons, many retailers not only survived, but thrived (think Home Improvement, Grocery, and Apparel). Retailers are driving this transformation through innovative thinking and smart investments that improve the customer experience regardless of how they want to shop.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Right I go out of the inventory that’s getting unpacked right now is Home Improvement and apparel that had a like a nice Spike. Scot: [50:37] Yeah I had a drop cam and I can never get the nest thing took over and. So I did a test order and exactly like wish the promise ship date was like 21 days. Scot: [14:26] Right.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 12, 2024

No Live Streaming Commerce Still not meaningful in US in 2023 (less than 5% of social commerce in US) Yes Jason Total Score: 3 of 5 Scot : Amazon uses this 2022 setback/slowdown/reversion to the mean for a public resetting of expectations, but behind the scenes they take share and raise the bar on shipping. Scot: [28:09] Yeah.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This new drop culture, where excitement builds around smaller, curated releases throughout the year, has become the new norm. Drop culture taps into the emotional immediacy that drives passive shopping. Instead, a more flexible approach such as drop zone warehousing is needed.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 12, 2022

We talked to four retailers about Omicron: Maxine Windram, director of specialty apparel store Brava Lingerie; Brittany Garbutt, owner and director of popular restaurant chain Pretzel Australia; Natasha Dwyer, founder of children’s clothing store Arthur Ave; and Avi Efrat, owner of Fantastic Framing. Pretzel Australia owner Brittany Garbutt.

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