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“It’s been an awesome journey”: Marcus Crook on founding HoMie

Inside Retail

Marcus Crook: I was always into fashion and had worked casually in retail, but I never had any experience in business or design. So I think it was just a passion to do good mixed with a passion for fashion – merging the two to create something that could make a difference in the community. How did it start, and how has it evolved?

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How pop-ups helped inform Kat the Label’s new flagship store in Melbourne

Inside Retail

She said that the new store’s vibe straddles the line between being very racy, as well as daggy and old-fashioned, and will enable customers to experience what is showcased online, and touch and feel the products prior to purchase. There’s a wide array of people who really resonate with the product [and] design at an affordable price point.”.

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How Aussie label Form & Fold is building a better swimwear brand

Inside Retail

I loved fashion but wasn’t envisioning starting a brand. SK: At the time, there wasn’t a huge focus on social media or digital ads. We really want to extend our size range, but it’s such an undertaking, and you’re left with so much dead stock because it’s really hard to forecast.

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The Future of Retail in the New Era of Risk

Retail Prophet

If a single image has come to define the failure of global supply chains amid the Covid-19 crisis it’s that of the Ever Given – one of the world’s largest container ships – seized in a diagonal death grip inside the Suez Canal, heavy with more than twenty thousand units of cargo aboard. Slave laborers load cotton onto waiting ships.

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4 Critical Steps for Optimizing Omnichannel Order Fulfillment in 2021

Retalon

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. Will you deny returns at a store level?

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 273 – Amazon FBA Roll-ups with Alex Kopco of Forum Brands

Retail Geek

In this interview we discuss Alex’s experiences at Target and Amazon prior to founding Forum Brands. ? ? Alex Kopco is the Founder and COO of Forum Brands , a roll-up of digitally-native consumer brands selling via Amazon.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 314 – Lovesac Founder and CEO Shawn Nelson

Retail Geek

If I look at the last quarter, I took a little glance at that. Tried to sell them to furniture stores and they laughed at us and told us it was a dumb idea. [3:34] We don’t, we don’t stock things there. Shawn : [1:13] Thank you.