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Is the DTC business model dead, or just evolving?

Inside Retail

A few years ago, it seemed like every new brand making noise in the market was adopting a direct-to-consumer (DTC) business model. Like many trends, the discourse around DTC is a rollercoaster, ranging from ‘DTC is dead!’ to ‘Look at this amazing DTC brand! Everyone should do this.’

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Reinventing the phone shop: Dialling up the experience

Retail Gazette

In fact, the number of high street phone shops has plummeted 38% over the past five years, dropping from just over 10,000 in 2017 to just over 6,000 in 2023, data from the Local Data Company shows. That’s not to say the mobile phone shop is dead. It drifted even further way when providers started pushing SIM-only contracts.

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How Aussie label Form & Fold is building a better swimwear brand

Inside Retail

Carly had studied business and marketing, and we basically crashed our parents’ holiday in Europe. IR : The official launch was in 2017. Every year, we learn more about our customers, or more about social media, or how to better manage our email [marketing]. SK: The awareness and marketing are unbelievable.

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How Predictive Analytics Are Transforming Omni-Channel Retail

Retalon

The marketing and loyalty department provide consumer/promotion data, the POS system provides sales/returns data. What is the optimal pricing/markdown strategy to sell off inventory by end of season while a staying away from lost sales, and dead inventory? How do you calculate optimal safety stock levels?

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How Predictive Analytics Are Transforming Omni-Channel Retail

Retalon

The marketing and loyalty department provide consumer/promotion data, the POS system provides sales/returns data. What is the optimal pricing/markdown strategy to sell off inventory by end of season while a staying away from lost sales, and dead inventory? How do you calculate optimal safety stock levels?

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4 Critical Steps for Optimizing Omnichannel Order Fulfillment in 2021

Retalon

This includes everything from storing inventory, processing orders, picking stock, shipping packages, and delivering orders to the end consumer. And yet, failing to live up to consumer expectations can be just as deadly — especially when retail behemoths like Amazon are gobbling up market share.

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The Future of Retail in the New Era of Risk

Retail Prophet

While cotton could indeed be sourced elsewhere, the US had several distinct market advantages. If anything, it was the use of slave labor that made it simply impossible to compete with the United States with on the global cotton market. Thus preventing the US from ever again recapturing such outsized share of the global cotton market.