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Associated Wholesale Grocers Streamlines Member Access to Instacart Delivery and Smart Carts

Retail TouchPoints

Cooperative food wholesaler Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG) , which serves independently owned supermarkets, has expanded its partnership with Instacart to offer ecommerce and same-day delivery solutions as well as smart cart technology to its member retailers.

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Inside Natori’s Transformation from High-End Wholesaler to Omnichannel Brand

Retail TouchPoints

The company’s wholesale business is still thriving, but now it’s only part of an omnichannel strategy that includes ecommerce , social commerce and marketplaces. Introducing DTC Without Damaging Wholesale. The key in the end was to ensure that Natori.com wasn’t really competing with the brand’s wholesale partners.

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Wholesale Carriers Benefit from the Cisco/Qwilt Solution

Cisco Retail

For wholesale carriers, the argument may go, “I don’t own the end subscriber session and therefore this doesn’t make business sense for me”. Wholesale carriers own/operate an open access network and sell network capacity to other CSPs. The CSPs’ advanced traffic management can further enhance streaming quality.

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Wholesale remains most profitable investment channel for brands: report

Retail Dive

The channel, which is expected to grow 51% this year, accounts for about 60% of companies’ total sales, according to a recent NuOrder report.

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12 Accounting Mistakes New Business Owners Often Make

Small Biz Trends

A new business won’t survive long if it doesn’t have solid cash flow and a good accounting system in place. To that end, a panel of Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) members answered the following question: “What’s one accounting mistake that new business owners might tend to make, and why? How can they fix it?”

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Kroger, Albertsons Delay Merger Timeline to August as They Negotiate with Regulators

Retail TouchPoints

While this is longer than we originally thought, we knew it was a possibility and our merger agreement and divestiture plan accounted for such potential timing,” according to a joint statement from the retailers. “We Top execs from both companies defended the merger in testimony to a U.S.

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Discount Tire Acquires 25 Dunn Tire Locations

Retail TouchPoints

Additionally, Dunn Tire’s investors will retain independent ownership of Exxpress Tire Delivery , a wholesale business operating five distribution centers serving thousands of accounts in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.

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