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‘An exciting way to test a new market’: More fashion brands turn to rental

Inside Retail

Fulfilment by GlamCorner now sees the platform handling the logistics of clothing rental on behalf of fashion brands, including warehousing, cleaning, shipping and returns, and giving brands their own rental stores, which they can embed in their e-commerce sites and promote to customers. The ‘Attenborough’ effect.

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eMarketer: COVID-19 Retail Recovery Will Take Longer Than ‘Great Recession’ Rebound

Retail TouchPoints

“The magnitude of the downturn and pace of recovery will be harder on the retail market than the Great Recession,” according to an article on the eMarketer site. After the 2008-2009 financial crisis, it took the majority of affected markets approximately one year for retail sales to return to pre-crisis levels.

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Choosing a Distribution Model: Drop Shipping vs Traditional Inventory

Retail Bound

As Robert Gilbreath, VP of Marketing at ShipStation, a web-based shipping solutions provider, puts it, “Compared to splashy marketing campaigns and new product features, shipping isn’t exactly the sexiest topic. This involves: Market Analysis: Understand your target audience, their preferences, and their buying behavior.

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Inside the Online Bookstore Building a ‘Model for Small Businesses to Compete with Amazon’

Retail TouchPoints

It wouldn’t be precisely accurate to count Bookshop.org among the successful conquerors, since its 1% market share of print book sales is dwarfed by Amazon’s approximately 50% (by some estimates, it’s even more). But then, “from the years of like 2009 to 2018, I just watched Amazon start eating everybody’s lunch,” he said.

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The collapse and rebirth of UK fashion giant Missguided

Inside Retail

It also had a string of celebrity partnerships and collaborations to build a cachet among the 18- to 25-year-old age group that made up the company’s core market. Missguided, founded by Nitin Passi in 2009, shocked the retail industry after declaring that it had fallen more than £80 million ($136 million) in debt. million in 2019.

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eCommerce and its Profitability Issue. Why its So Hard to Make Money

Indigo 9 Digital

If getting the order to you is expensive what about returns? This process of ordering and returning goods is very expensive. million on “refunds, returns, and discounts”. High marketing costs are one reason for Casper’s struggles but returns have also eaten into the brand’s profitability. In 2018 Casper spent $80.7

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6 Reasons Walmart’s eCommerce Strategy is Winning

Indigo 9 Digital

Having a wide range of fulfillment options, including delivery to home, collection from store – and by using stores for fulfillment – allowed Walmart to ramp up capacity in a way that many other players struggled to do. billio n of all click and collect purchases made in the United States in 2021 are fulfilled by Walmart.