Inside Retail

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Amazon’s 12 per cent extended-trade stock drop erased about $140 billion in its market capitalisation, greater than the entire value of companies such as Morgan Stanley, Netflix and Lockheed Martin. Prior holiday quarter sales growth was 9 per cent in 2021 and 38 per cent in 2020. Analysts were expecting $155.2

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The 2020 ecommerce holiday shopping and shipping season is expected to eclipse years past. Regardless, these communications will be crucial to whether holiday customers return throughout 2021. With many people working from home, there won’t be as many office buildings and businesses for carriers to drop off consumers’ packages.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 7, 2022

For many independent retailers in the UK, 2020 hid a lot of the post-Brexit trading cracks as their domestic sales skyrocketed during periods of lockdown when consumers were forced to stay at home and took to shopping more online. There are rules in place as part of EU trade deals that allow you to recover customs costs – tariff free.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This removes the cost and complexity of shipping furniture pieces for photoshoots, which is particularly difficult right now due to supply chain issues, as well as the difficulty of getting all the necessary staff in the same place at the same time. Creating the virtual showrooms was a fairly intuitive process.

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Independent Retailer

DECEMBER 27, 2022

After the pandemic-driven surge in consumer demand that triggered a frenzy of shipping activity and skyrocketing prices, logistics and transportation companies are signaling a fast slowdown. Shipping and wholesale prices are plunging and orders are not being placed as often. . Disruptions in the Container Shipping Industry.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

But seller uptake was slow — at the end of 2020, Google Shopping had approximately 8,000 sellers, according to Marketplace Pulse. That’s a drop in the bucket compared to Amazon’s 1.7 In 2020, Amazon took a little over 10% of U.S. digital ad revenue in 2020, but the company wants to keep it that way.

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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

Maintaining margins within business constraints while efficiently providing order fulfillment to customers is a tall order, especially considering each customer purchase requires a real-time fulfillment decision within a shifting context of inventory, demand, returns, delivery times, and shipping costs. That’s the billion dollar question.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 15, 2023

Increases in cost of shipping both for raw materials inbound to Brazil plus outbound finished goods to our markets were a big factor for some of 2021 and much of 2022, but things have mostly normalised now,” he added. As shipping rates reduce it is important for businesses to have a dynamic view on their costs,” he elaborated.

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A1 Retail

JULY 28, 2022

Hush Puppies have acquired a further 214 new retail partners from 2021-2022. Hush Puppies UK is forecasting over 500k pairs sold by end of 2022, compared to 350k in 2021. Hush Puppies brand revenue is up +237% for H1 2022 vs 2020. H1 Highlights: Hush Puppies UK revenue is up +27% YOY with gross profit up +31% .

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 9, 2023

By Tricia McKinnon 2020 is the year when the eCommerce narrative shifted in a major way. Walmart’s US eCommerce sales were up 79% in 2020 and were up 11.0% in 2021 on the back of strong growth in the prior year. This service is also beneficial for consumers worried about their goods being stolen after they are dropped off.

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Mass Relators

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

from the volume of imports that moved through the ports in the first half of 2021. Ports on the East and West coasts remain congested, said Ben Hackett of Hackett Associates, who noted that the Port of Los Angeles has around 40 ships waiting to dock. Imports for all of 2021 totaled 25.8 That would represent an increase of 1.5%

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Customers really love our fast shipping and customer service, where we get a lot of positive feedback. Customers are also looking for a direct relationship with brands, so in 2020, we on-boarded SMS marketing, through Yotpo. We launched our loyalty program with Yotpo in October 2020 and we have received amazing feedback.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Whilst 2020 was about dealing with the outcomes of the acceleration of e-commerce and omnichannel, in 2021, retailers were trying to cope with a perfect storm of demand and supply issues, including international shipping uncertainty, loss of capacity, increased costs – even a lack of containers and pallets.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

According to thredUP ’s 2020 Resale Report , “online thrifting is a bright spot in the broader COVID retail slump. With consumers seeking bargains from home, online secondhand is set to grow 69% between 2019 and 2021, while the broader retail sector is projected to shrink 15%.”. That’s where Worthy comes in.

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VMS

APRIL 7, 2021

Before 2020, monthly imports had reached 2 million TEU only once, in October 2018. We saw the busiest February on record as the ports worked to clear the backlog, and the number of ships at anchor in San Pedro Bay waiting to dock at Los Angeles and Long Beach is dropping.”. The first half of 2021 is forecast at 11.99

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 4, 2021

Powell and CEO Charlie Cole, both of whom started at the company in early 2020, are part of a “new team charged with giving the brand its groove back, and that requires tech investment,” Powell said in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. Discovering the ‘Unknown Unknowns’.

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VMS

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Carriers have begun to pull services and are looking at laying up ships.”. from September 2021. million TEU in February 2021, the last time the monthly total fell below 2 million TEU. million TEU in February 2021, the last time the monthly total fell below 2 million TEU. December is expected to drop to 1.9

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 21, 2022

Episode 285 is a deep dive into the data from 2021 and holiday 2021. The US Dept of Commerce December Advanced Retail Sales Data is out, which gives us a full look at 2021 and the 2021 holiday season. So Episode 285 is a data deepdive into 2021. So Episode 285 is a data deepdive into 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2022

Retailers pulled off a successful 2021 holiday season despite the challenges posed by the omicron variant and ongoing supply chain issues. 24, 2021, according to data from Mastercard. 21, 2021, through Jan. drop in 2020. 21, 2021, through Jan. drop in 2020. “It’s Overall sales were up 8.5%

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Retail Insider

MAY 25, 2021

The Retail Insider 2021 Transforming Retail Awards is now open for entries. Also in the mix was Entrupy, a tech-driven way of authenticating luxury goods which prevents fraud by taking a microscopic image and comparing it to a database of millions of images with a 99% accuracy rate and the drop-shipping platform Avasam.

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Rangeme

JUNE 28, 2021

The pandemic was a preview of that, with pet care sales worldwide soaring by almost 9% in 2020, especially in certain categories: pet food sales grew 8%; accessories by 10%; and beauty and grooming categories increasing the most by 11%. Yes, I’m guilty; guilty; and guilty again.). Prescriptions, too. Pet premiumization.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The supermarket’s general merchandise sales also dropped 8% in the second quarter, as it came up against a tough quarter a year ago when demand was boosted amid pandemic restrictions. The supermarket boss told reporters that the group also chartered its own ships to help reduce potential disruption to some imports.

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Retail Bound

MAY 22, 2022

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, retail establishments in the United States in Q3 2020 were 1,045,422, up 4,801 over the previous quarter — the highest Q3 retail establishment count in the last decade. Since then, levels have dropped to 15% — higher than pre-pandemic but lower than the highest levels in early 2020.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 26, 2022

With luxurious touches, such as a VIP area with velvet chairs, a personal shopping service, and free domestic shipping for in-store customers, Nicholas calls it “one of the most elegant stores” she has ever seen. In the US, women are more averse to a drop-crotch pant, which in Australia is more common.

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Independent Retailer

MARCH 17, 2022

According to UN trade and development experts UNCTAD, the ecommerce sector contributed a drastic three percent increase (from 16% to 19%) to all retail sales in 2020. The price of manufacturing and shipping has increased to reflect the lack of labor, supply of goods, and transportation space. Growing ecommerce ( >$26.7

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Episode 286 is a hot take on Amazon Q4 2021 earnings. Amazon released their Q4 (and full year) earnings for 2021 on Thursday February 3rd. in 2021, which was just above the industry average of 17.9% In 2021 total revenue was $31.16B growing at 32% Year over Year. In this episode we do a deep dive into all the details.

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365 Retail

OCTOBER 18, 2022

More than eight million parcels1 were lost or stolen between May 2021 and April 2022, with the UK having the largest increase in missing parcels compared to other countries. According to the Penn Elcom Parcel Theft Report, the UK saw the largest increase in parcel theft and loss between May 2021 and April 2022.

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Retail Minded

AUGUST 27, 2022

Stockouts were disastrous for retailers during the pandemic – up by 250% (Adobe, 2021) – and with 37% of consumers saying they’d simply shop elsewhere if they couldn’t find what. Of course, this level of demand could not be maintained – and in 2022, they have dropped. in 2021 from 10.6% considerably.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 5, 2023

With the cost-of-living crisis at the forefront of shoppers’ minds, it’s no surprise so shoppers have jumped ship from the traditional big four supermarkets to discounters. In 2021, when Covid undoubtedly hit the business, Aldi’s profit margin fell to an 11-year low of 0.4%. to £178.7m it achieved in 2019.

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VMS

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The initial plan is to drop these package-carrying drones into the backyards of residents in Lockeford, Calif. In the Covid years of 2020 and 2021, it had closed a great number of stores to improve profitability. or two Covid-dominated years, a lack of dockworkers left ships unloaded and retail warehouses empty.

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Indigo 9 Digital

JUNE 13, 2022

This was reflected in Tim Hortons’ same store sales growth which was slowing, dropping from 2.5% Or in the process of trying to turn the ship around many companies make a number of missteps as they desperately try to improve operations. In 2021 Tim Hortons had same store sales growth of 10.8% and its revenues in 2021 were $6.5

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Independent Retailer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Of course, this level of demand could not be maintained, and in 2022, they dropped considerably. Among them, a global supply chain crisis — rife with driver shortages and lengthy shipping times — buttressed by a lack of resources and skyrocketing costs was brought on by the Ukraine war. The result?

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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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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Episode 279 is breakdown of Amazon, eBay, Shopify, and Snap Q3 2021 earnings, and a discussion of Rent the Runway’s IPO. October 28th, 2021. A weekly podcast with the latest e-commerce news and events. We also discuss the Rent the Runway IPO. Episode 279 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday. Transcript.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 13, 2021

Nothing about 2020 was normal — in fact, for many retailers, the phrase ‘hindsight is 2020’ is one they should reconsider using. . But what does this mean for 2021? Tracking location data along with customer data can help stores better prepare for 2021. Location, Location, Location. Take luggage for example.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 22, 2021

Episode 251 is our annual predictions episode for 2021 and a recap of our 2020 predictions. 2020 Recap – Predictions made on episode 204. 2020 Predictions Recap. 5% of retail in 2019, could be 8-10% in 2020 (as measured by IRI, for CPG private label). 2021 Predictions. Owned brands continue to grow.

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Retail Minded

MAY 14, 2022

He dropped his plans for a corporate job, set up a BigCommerce e-store, took on a silent partner and hired staff. As everything changed for us in 2020.”. 2020 was lucky for us, but more so than the huge bump in sales, it opened up a world of opportunity to keep the momentum going. “We BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER.

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