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Choosing a Distribution Model: Drop Shipping vs Traditional Inventory

Retail Bound

One of the topics that consistently comes up in the retail world is the logistics of shipping. From the manufacturers to the distributors, to your retail store – there are many factors and unexpected costs to consider during the shipping process that can be often overlooked. Choose a model that can scale with your growth trajectory.

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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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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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High growth e-cigarette brand opts for Brightpearl to light up multichannel expansion

365 Retail

Since they launched in 2009, Ecirette has experienced phenomenal success, growing from one of the first online vaping stores to one of Ireland’s leading e-cigarette brands. Brightpearl’s well-known connectability with Shopify means it can quickly sync with Ecirette’s online webstore.

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How Rent the Runway Boosted Talent, Sustainability and CX by Moving to the Cloud

Retail TouchPoints

Attracting Top Talent in a Tight Labor Market. Developers want to develop and build, so if you can feed their appetite to do really cool things, you can attract more engineers into the company and continue to lead the market ,” he said in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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

Indigo 9 Digital

High marketing costs are one reason for Casper’s struggles but returns have also eaten into the brand’s profitability. In the past Morgan Stanley has estimated the average order value for a one day shipping order from Amazon is $8.32. to fulfill and ship that order which means Amazon loses money on many orders.

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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.

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