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BJ’s Wholesale Club Positions Smaller Store Concept as ‘Innovation Lab’

Retail TouchPoints

BJ’s Wholesale Club is testing out a smaller store format called BJ’s market. BJ’s market will serve as an exciting new innovation lab for BJ’s Wholesale Club,” said Bill Werner, EVP, Strategy and Development at BJ’s Wholesale Club in a statement. “We The first 43,000 -square-foot concept store opened in Warwick, R.I.

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Non-Alcoholic Brand Boisson Files for Bankruptcy Protection, Closes all Stores

Retail TouchPoints

The non-alcoholic (NA) beverage brand plans to continue operating as a wholesaler and a DTC ecommerce retailer. Detailed information about Boisson’s restructuring plans was not available at press time. Bodkins took pains to stress that Boisson’s setback is not a failure for the NA category at large. “No

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Do You Have What It Takes to go from Wholesale to DTC?

Retail TouchPoints

If you’re a wholesale retailer or brand owner and you haven’t already launched a direct-to-consumer sales channel, you’d better be thinking about it. The global pandemic not only accelerated the growth in ecommerce, it highlighted the shortcomings of wholesale-only sales channels. Fulfillment and Returns. to visit your website.

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Kroger and Albertsons to Sell 400+ Stores, 8 DCs to Speed Planned Merger

Retail TouchPoints

Kroger and Albertsons will sell 413 stores across 17 states and the District of Columbia, along with eight distribution centers, two offices and five private label brands, to C&S Wholesale Grocers for approximately $1.9 billion in cash.

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Wholesale Dropshipping

Independent Retailer

The wholesale product manufacturer creates, packages, and ships the product out to your customer for you, making this a low maintenance business model. In the current web-based world of retail and wholesale, dropshipping makes a lot of sense. Choose Your Wholesale Dropshipping Supplier. What is Dropshipping?

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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. We began the journey by getting our heads around the data.”.

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How Outsourcing Your Fulfillment Will Grow Your Business

Rangeme

Fulfillment is a broad term that encompasses every aspect of storing, packing, and shipping your goods. Perhaps you run out of storage space, or will run out of space if you take that large order from a retailer or wholesale partner. Your future plans should also help guide the conversation with a potential fulfillment partner.