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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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Business lessons from Beyoncé

Inside Retail

Whatever she sells, I’m buying, whether it’s overpriced album merchandise that won’t get shipped out for another 11-12 weeks from the US, or her activewear collaboration with Adidas. The consumer decides. I am a ride-or-die member of the Beyhive, Beyoncé’s unofficial global fan club. Surprise and delight.

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‘This place enables curiosity’: Inside Levi’s Eureka Innovation Lab

Inside Retail

From Turkey to Telegraph Hill Eureka Innovation Lab was opened in 2013 as a way to bring the prototyping process closer to the denim brand’s US headquarters. But this required shipping multiple iterations back and forth, and it could take weeks before they had a prototype they were satisfied with.

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Black Friday 2020 In-Store Traffic: An Expected Result in an Unexpected Season

Retail TouchPoints

27) dropped considerably in comparison to last year. It’s only since 2013 that Thanksgiving Day shopping started to become an event, and judging from the fact that it has only contributed 1.5% This means that the drop in Black Friday traffic may benefit other, later dates before New Year’s. 26) and Black Friday (Nov.

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6 Reasons Walmart’s eCommerce Strategy is Winning

Indigo 9 Digital

For many years analysts were saying stores are dead but if Walmart didn’t start testing grocery pickup back in 2013 its grocery pickup services would not have performed so well when put to the test during the pandemic. Walmart had this foresight and a decade ago in 2013 it started testing a grocery pickup service. More than 1.7

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Have we reached peak Christmas advent calendar?

Retail Gazette

Liberty launched its own version in 2013 and it remains the fastest selling product in its almost 150-year history. Social media marketing, in particular, where the advent calendars are sent to content creators in advance for unboxing, has helped to entice consumers to buy them,” she says. But what makes them so popular?

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The Top 15 Ways to Find New Customers in Retail

Indigo 9 Digital

Menswear direct to consumer brand UNTUCKit realized this when it first tried to figure out how to acquire its first set of customers. UNTUCKit found that, at the time, for approximately $350 it could reach 200,000 potential consumers using radio ads. Consumers simply have less money to spend. By 2018 it took 53 weeks.