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Choosing a Distribution Model: Drop Shipping vs Traditional Inventory

Retail Bound

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. Traditional Inventory: Beyond the Basics Operational Dynamics: Retailers purchase products in bulk, store them, and then ship them out as orders come in.

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Merchants call on Fed to cut debit card swipe fees

Mass Relators

WASHINGTON – The Merchants Payments Coalition on Tuesday called for the Federal Reserve to revise debit card swipe fee rules to reflect lower bank costs. The swipe fee regulations were adopted a decade ago, and a new Fed report shows that banks’ average cost of processing the transactions has since fallen by half.

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NRF again asks Congress to address ‘swipe’ fees

Mass Relators

credit card market and currently restrict competition by allowing transactions made on cards issued under their brands to be processed only over their own networks. Merchants would then choose which of the two networks to use, prompting networks to compete over fees, security and service. billion charged in 2009.

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Retailers Sue Fed Over Failure to Follow Congress’ Direction on Debit Card Swipe Fees

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(PRESS RELEASE) WASHINGTON — Retailers have filed a lawsuit seeking to have the Federal Reserve lower its 10-year-old cap on “swipe” fees banks charge to process debit card transactions, saying the agency wrongly applied federal law and that merchants have paid billions of dollars more than intended by Congress while banks’ costs have fallen.

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Retailers sue Fed over debit card swipe fees

Mass Relators

WASHINGTON — Retailers filed a lawsuit on Thursday seeking to compel the Federal Reserve to lower its 10-year-old cap on the “swipe” fees banks charge to process debit card transactions. A survey by the Fed found bank costs allowed under Durbin averaged 8 cents per transaction as of 2009, the year before the law was passed.

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How Tmall Global is overcoming the challenges of China’s zero-Covid policy

Inside Retail

When it comes to innovation, Shan said that Tmall Global has a three-pronged approach, namely focusing on general digital commerce infrastructure, customer perspectives and merchant brand experiences. Digitising every aspect of the merchant operations is also key. We recognise the need to help our merchants.

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Cryptocurrency: The good, the bad and the ugly

Inside Retail

In 1937, Coca-Cola introduced its first coin-operated vending machine in the US, selling a bottle of Coke for a nickel. Cryptocurrencies have evolved beyond their origin as a payment system for a niche group of people who didn’t trust the global banking system. Bitcoin was the first major cryptocurrency, created in 2009.