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What does wholesale look like in 2023?

Inside Retail

The traditional wholesale model is broken – and Covid is not to blame. Consider how a traditional wholesale deal works. One thing the Covid pandemic has done is made consumer demand more erratic than ever before; retailers suffer the risk of building stockpiles of products that cannot be sold at profit.

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Unify Drop Ship and Marketplace for a Highly Flexible Go-to-Market Model — Don’t Get Stuck in ‘Either-Or’

Retail TouchPoints

In other words, consumers don’t just want the perfect pair of black sneakers delivered to their doorstep in 24 hours — they may also want those sneakers to come from a company with a low carbon footprint, or from a brand that supports social-justice causes, or from a Black-owned business in their local area.

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Do You Have What It Takes to go from Wholesale to DTC?

Retail TouchPoints

If you’re a wholesale retailer or brand owner and you haven’t already launched a direct-to-consumer sales channel, you’d better be thinking about it. The global pandemic not only accelerated the growth in ecommerce, it highlighted the shortcomings of wholesale-only sales channels. to visit your website. Fulfillment and Returns.

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Casper CEO’s Roadmap to Profitability: Control Costs, Expand Wholesale and Cater to Customers

Retail TouchPoints

It flipped the script and put the power with the consumer, and that changed the entire category. So in 2012 we rebuilt, top to bottom, the entire company so we could replenish stores and ship to the customer from the same inventory pool. We were one of the first six or seven companies to do buy online, ship from store.

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DoorDash Debuts Package Pickup Service to Streamline Returns

Retail TouchPoints

DoorDash has introduced Package Pickup, allowing consumers across the country to have the service deliver up to five return items per trip to UPS, FedEx or the USPS. Consumers can attach prepaid shipping labels to their returns or send a shipping QR code directly to their “Dasher” via the DoorDash app.

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Glossier preparing for Down Under debut

Inside Retail

As of July 16, a range of Glossier products will be available in 70 Mecca stores across Australia and New Zealand for the first time ever – allowing consumers to shade-match and swatch-test products before checkout.

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Sunnier Economic Outlooks Drive Peak Season

Retail TouchPoints

While consumers still make plenty of online purchases, analysts expect ecommerce sales to grow more moderately in the near term compared to the past few years. Meanwhile, consumers return to brick-and-mortar stores and seek omnichannel experiences. They invest in new storefronts and build strong wholesale relationships.

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