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Small Business, Big Ideas: Amid Historic Disruption in Off-Price, This Family-Owned Overstock Wholesaler is Reinventing the Game

Retail TouchPoints

specializes in wholesale and , 65 years since its inception, now supplies many of those big-name retailers , as well as smaller regional chains, with name-brand off-price and closeout inventory. But it’s very hard to be a great wholesaler and a great retailer at the same time; we dont have a huge corporate management structure here.

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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

While companies are certainly collecting more and more data, data alone can’t drive this level of hyper-personalization — especially not in a traditional wholesale retail model. As a result, many retailers are seeking to scale up their selection through models like drop ship and marketplace.

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DoorDash Debuts Package Pickup Service to Streamline Returns

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Consumers can attach prepaid shipping labels to their returns or send a shipping QR code directly to their “Dasher” via the DoorDash app. Dashers will send confirmation photos to consumers when they drop off the items at the designated store. “We

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Choosing a Distribution Model: Drop Shipping vs Traditional Inventory

Retail Bound

One of the topics that consistently comes up in the retail world is the logistics of shipping. From the manufacturers to the distributors, to your retail store – there are many factors and unexpected costs to consider during the shipping process that can be often overlooked. Choose a model that can scale with your growth trajectory.

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How Ecommerce Tech Can Reduce the Environmental Damage it Caused in the First Place

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Much of this impact comes from shipping and warehousing, as well as from operating all those computer servers to facilitate all of those sales. When a consumer returns an item, that’s two legs of shipping — and the concomitant environmental impact — that essentially occurred for naught. Mitigating Returns. pounds per item.

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Is it Time for RFID to Shine?

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RFID is the killer app for this for most products, and this can be augmented by the use of computervision.” Adoption also is rising because prices are dropping. While leveraging marketplaces and other wholesale partners can boost sales and name recognition, it also adds a whole extra layer of complexity to inventory management.

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How Qalara is Bringing the ‘Inherently Eco-Friendly’ Products of South Asia to the World

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Enter Qalara, which two years on from its launch features more than 1,000 producers selling over 150,000 ready-to-ship and made-to-order products, primarily in the home and lifestyle category. although the site has shipped goods to customers in more than 50 countries to date. and Canada), the UK, Australia and the U.A.E.,