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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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How to Keep Your Loyalty Program Members Engaged Long-Term, Even After the Holidays

Retail TouchPoints

According to Clarus Commerce data , during the holidays shoppers cared most about product discounts, special expedited shipping, better return policies and free samples with purchase. Often, these are the same benefits that keep them engaged throughout the year.

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How Aussie menswear brand Peter Jackson is suiting up for e-commerce expansion

Inside Retail

The brand offers international shipping for online orders but does not plan to invest in brick-and-mortar retail overseas as part of the next phase of the growth strategy. “We’re In 2013, the business expanded nationally when it opened its first store outside of Victoria in Adelaide’s Rundle Place.

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The Children’s Place To Shut 300 Locations By 2021

Retail TouchPoints

Since it announced the fleet optimization initiative in 2013, the retailer has closed 275 stores. and Canada stores have been closed since March 18, the company enabled ship-from-store capabilities in approximately 85% of its U.S. stores in late April, more than doubling its daily shipping capacity. of the company’s U.S.

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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. I am a ride-or-die member of the Beyhive, Beyoncé’s unofficial global fan club. That’s what Beyoncé has done better than most.”. Surprise and delight.

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Newmark Retail secures over 25 new travel retail locations for DPT Antwerp

Retail Times

Newmark Retail’s London-based strategic travel retail team has secured over 25 new listings on cruise ships, airlines and in airports on behalf of Belgian-based contemporary jewellery brand, DPT Antwerp, previously known as Diamanti Per Tutti, to expand its travel retail presence.

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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.