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B2B Marketplace Faire Accelerates the Digitization of an Underserved Market: Wholesale

Retail TouchPoints

But one area of commerce has stubbornly resisted this move toward digitization — wholesale. People basically just ignored the third leg of that triangle though, the wholesale leg.” For nearly two decades now online marketplaces have proliferated, beginning with Ebay and Amazon, followed by Walmart, Etsy and countless others.

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Leveraging Voice-Directed Picking to Optimize Multichannel Fulfillment

Retail TouchPoints

Whether shipping directly to customers’ homes, enabling curbside pickup or restocking store shelves, consistently improving speed, accuracy and adaptability is crucial for meeting shopper expectations and maintaining market share.

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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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Digital Transformation Propels Burton’s Omnichannel Growth Plans

Retail TouchPoints

Burton’s business has changed over the years, from almost exclusively wholesale to a 75%/25% mix of wholesale and DTC, but its systems hadn’t changed with it, explained Josee Larocque, Burton’s SVP of DTC and Digital Transformation in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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1/3 Of US Retailers Are 8 weeks Away From Going Bust Due To Supply Chain Issues

Retail Minded

Other issues included increased shipping costs (suffered by 59% of firms polled), stockouts (52%), and the increased prices of raw materials (47%). Based in Bristol (UK) and Austin, Texas (US), Brightpearl by Sage provides a retail operating system (ROS) for retailers and wholesalers. About Brightpearl.

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Behind the Scenes of TikTok Shop with a Pioneering U.S. Seller

Retail TouchPoints

“We’ve been able to sell lots and lots and lots of products, to the point that TikTok is quickly becoming one of our larger [points of sale].” The company also sees lifts in sales at Walmart, Target and other retailers during these live sessions). Either way it’s good for us.

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Supply Chain Solutions: Get Inventory Now

Independent Retailer

Many companies are still having trouble acquiring the materials needed to make products and are struggling to ship their products to stores and wholesalers.”. Currently, 80 percent of all goods are shipped by trucks, with eight percent shipped by air and less than five percent shipped by rail.