Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

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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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 25, 2024

As customers return to in-store shopping, retailers are continuing to face an increase in returns from online and in-store sales. Customers are attracted to free return shipping, refunds, and no questions asked policies. During the pandemic, ecommerce returns majorly impacted retailers profit margins.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2022

The combination of Shopify and Deliverr services will benefit ecommerce businesses through: Simplified multichannel inventory management that creates a single resource among ecommerce, brick-and-mortar, wholesale, marketplaces and platforms including Google , Facebook , Instagram and TikTok ; Predictive inventory placement that anticipates the origin (..)

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The mass store closures prompted by COVID-19 in spring 2020 could have spelled disaster for equestrian specialty brand Kerrits , which had operated as a wholesale-only business for over 25 years. Once the pandemic hit, our wholesalers had to close their stores, and we had to rethink our entire email plan,” said Florin.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Nordstrom will power the front-end digital customer experience — the Nordstrom.com Sports Fan Shop — while orders will be fulfilled and shipped by Fanatics. “Through this innovative partnership model and new product category, we can now meet the needs of sports enthusiasts and the people who shop for them. ”

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2023

Now the company has become the first toy brand to test out the hottest new arena in digital selling — TikTok Shop. Now it’s here: first launched in the UK and several Asian markets, TikTok Shop was quietly made available in the U.S. in November 2022. in November 2022. We’re nimble and super entrepreneurial.

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Independent Retailer

JANUARY 17, 2023

The wholesale product manufacturer creates, packages, and ships the product out to your customer for you, making this a low maintenance business model. When a retail customer orders an item, the dropshipping company blind ships the item to the customer. Why You Should Drop Ship. Why You Should Drop Ship.

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Retail Bound

APRIL 13, 2024

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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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2022

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.

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Inside Retail

JULY 13, 2023

The brand has a range of partnerships in the works, and recently opened its first domestic flagship – a 167sqm store at Chadstone Shopping Centre, showcasing new trends and styles, and introducing new customers to the vintage brand. The concept stores will provide us with the ability to ship from store, and ship to door.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

At a time when renowned athleisure brands like Lululemon are struggling , Vuori is continuing to ride its rocket ship to growth. We also use qualitative feedback to learn — for example, store notes with people visiting a wholesale door, learning about us and then shopping with us in retail.”

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Independent Retailer

JULY 14, 2022

Online shopping rapidly grew during the height of the pandemic and continues to soar, and more small-to-medium sized businesses are shifting to ecommerce. If you are looking to take the plunge into wholesale, here is everything you need to know in order to find the best merchandise to sell online: What is a Wholesale Business?

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

E-commerce businesses are navigating new economic conditions that have seen reduced discretionary spending and the Covid-19 online shopping storms subsiding. I was thinking wholesale and was taking my product around to stores and I remember being rejected all the time.

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Independent Retailer

JANUARY 17, 2023

Whether you order your products from one wholesale clothing supplier or a variety of them, choosing the right company can feel daunting. When searching for a new wholesaler, here are some important factors that should be met: Quality Products. The company also offers wholesale plus size dresses and wholesale girls dresses.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2020

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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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 13, 2022

When planning their strategy for growth, DTC brands can choose to: Increase distribution channels through avenues such as wholesale partnerships ; Expand their product assortments ; Use additional marketing channels ; and Build a community of like-minded consumers. This helps simplify the entire shopping process.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

And yet that’s exactly what Amazon is doing with its Ships in Product Packaging (SIPP) program, which, as the name suggests, allows products to ship in their original box or bag without any added Amazon packaging. As a result, in 2022, 11% of packages globally were shipped without Amazon packaging , amounting to millions of deliveries.

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Independent Retailer

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Retailers everywhere are looking at wholesale toy trends with positivity and hope. As retailers continue to prepare for the year ahead, Wholesale Central Blog has rounded up some of the hottest toy trends that are predicted to take the industry by storm. . 7 Cozy Wholesale Products for Cold Winter Days. back to top.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

Sharon Gee: People aren’t going to forget their new digital training; they’re not going to forget how to shop online for groceries. Merchants, particularly large retailers, who historically had this wholesale relationship where they had vendors and buyers now recognize there’s a benefit to a third-party marketplace model.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 2, 2023

But contrary to pandemic-era predictions, it turns out people still want to shop in stores, and a swath of data privacy crackdowns have brought many of these rising stars back down to Earth. We have folks with 10-plus years of experience in 3PL shipping logistics, customer service and demand planning. pointed out.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In fact, there are three retail areas in particular — wholesale, off-price and grocery — where the marketplace opportunity is still wide open, primarily because each faces unique digitalization challenges that have slowed their move online. Marketplace White Space #1: Wholesale. Marketplace White Space #2: Off-Price.

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Independent Retailer

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Wholesale inventory bloat, combined with a softening demand in the economy, is taking its toll on cash flow and earnings at retailers. . ” Here are 7 tips for retailers on how to better manage their wholesale inventory and get rid of some of that product bloat: Return for a Refund or Credit. Donate Excess Wholesale Inventory.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2024

Shopify’s single platform serves both online and offline commerce natively, enabling a seamless customer experience regardless of when, where or how they choose to shop. Outdoor and camping gear wholesaler Darche taps into the same Shopify backend to sell to DTC and B2B customers.

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Wiser

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Direct-to-consumer strategies have transformed retail, both in the way consumers shop and how brands and retailers manufacture, market, and sell. ” This is contrary to the traditional strategy of wholesale, when brands partner with retailers to distribute products in bulk for sale by those retailers. This creates challenges.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2021

After all, in the midst of a pandemic, with most everyone spending a lot more time at home and almost no time out on the town, bling was not at the top of many shopping lists. Its wholesale sales had dried up and its retail stores were forced to close in early lockdowns. And maybe that’s to be expected. Agility Pays Off.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 2, 2022

We were shopping on James Street in Fortitude Valley when my mum tripped and smashed both of her elbows,” Sadler explains. In just two short years, we’ve quadrupled our retail revenue, grown our wholesale and drop-shipping revenue by 300 per cent, and been snapped up by major retailers, including The Iconic,” she enthuses.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We’ve just hired a new CFO, a new head of retail and wholesale, our new head of digital started in August and of course, myself. We signed up with two new agencies in September as well, so we’re rolling out much more aggressive social media advertising and Google Shopping campaigns. With that strategy comes demand creation.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 9, 2024

Although MGA products will still be available through major retailers, the new shopping destination, aptly named The MGA Shop , is designed to provide toy lovers with convenient features and benefits that wholesale partners can’t offer such as online-only exclusives and limited-quantity merchandise.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Hello Drinks founder JP Tucker said it is a first in the Australian liquor industry and is a win for both customers and wholesalers. But with third-party logistics (3PL) impacting its bottom line, Tucker looked at how he could work with wholesalers to eliminate these costs. We had around 200 truck deliveries from wholesalers last year.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 1, 2023

“As part of VF’s new Reinvent strategy, and with the aim of improving operational efficiency, we have eliminated approximately 500 salaried positions across the company globally,” the company said in a statement provided to sister Emerald publication Shop. Sources confirmed to Shop. The company reported revenue of $3.03

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Rakuten is Japan’s largest online shopping marketplace; with 111 million registered users it’s embedded into the daily lives of 90% of the Japanese population. Closely examine the cost to ship, weights and dimensions. Rakuten is huge, and other major players include Amazon Japan, but niche marketplaces are gaining share.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 29, 2020

The wide adoption of digital channels has dramatically disrupted the way consumers shop, and the recent COVID pandemic has exponentially increased the velocity of that change. There has to be a compelling reason to add another “stop” in their shopping mix. Big-box retailers are getting beaten on price. The Shift To Subscription Models.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 31, 2022

For many Australian retailers, the start of November marks the beginning of peak season and all that comes with it: packed stores, products flying off the shelf, big discounts and major online shopping events. We are expecting our best-ever peak season sales result across all our sales channels – wholesale, B2B, retail and online.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 15, 2021

People can order the product from a brand or wholesaler, the recommender receives a commission. “So So this sort of shopping-share concept is pretty incredible because we’re finally at the point where it is socially acceptable to be rewarded for giving great product recommendations.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 20, 2023

While some DTC brands are strategically entering into brick-and-mortar via branded storefronts, others are doubling down on wholesale. This conversation provided specific insights and examples of how Landesberg and his team were working to right the ship by prioritizing the fundamentals of retail performance and profitability.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Amazon provides brand owners with access to hundreds of millions of customers, our virtual store shelves and shopping experiences allow new and innovative brands to be discovered and to delight customers in a way that simply wasn’t possible even a short while ago. “Together we have broken down so many of those barriers,” Mehta added.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 3, 2024

Drawing on his family background in footwear, and his own experience in the industry, having started working in Chinese footwear manufacturing in 2011, he launched Alias Mae as a wholesale business. IR: You started as the customer service and wholesale manager, how have you witnessed the brand’s evolution in your time at the company?

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