Inside Retail

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Affiliate marketing has become a multi-billion dollar industry globally – but in Australia, the concept remains shrouded in suspicion, largely misunderstood by consumers. Its share of the broader e-commerce market is just a fraction of that in China or the US. Around a quarter of affiliate marketers are working in the fashion sector.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Our journey began with selling directly over the internet, we were working from home and shipping bikinis on our lunch breaks at our old workplaces,” Atkins told Inside Retail. The US is the brand’s most successful market, with Kulani Kinis being one of the most in-demand bikini labels in North America.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

Order Fulfillment When outsourcing, retailers can benefit from streamlined inventory management, order processing, and shipping. Digital Marketing and SEO To thrive in a competitive retail landscape, your business needs a strong online presence.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The problems with getting products to people quickly and cheaply are well-known: consumers want fast fulfillment, which is costly to provide, but they don’t want to pay high (or really any) shipping fees. This is both more complex and more top-of-mind due to ESG [environmental, social and governance]; no one likes to ship air.”

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 8, 2023

While you may not be shipping products worldwide, the benefit of an international company is its extensive network of suppliers, sourcing and tools. It’s also the speed at which you’re able to communicate with your account manager or designer. You’ll also want to investigate a company’s international reach and network.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2022

Supply chain management is the heart of retail management and has the ability to inform the overall health of a business. As a result, businesses looking to gain a competitive advantage in the global marketplace are investing more heavily in supply chain management. Navigating the Dynamic and Evolving Shipping Industry.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In internal fulfillment, the business handles the complete process of storing, packing and shipping. The company must have a warehouse to keep its inventory, and a logistics team to manage the goods for storing, ordering and shipping directly to stores/distributors or customers. Can you fulfill the orders in a timely manner?

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And in today’s day and age, shopping online has never been easier — with targeted ads, free shipping, free returns, stores built into Instagram or TikTok, logins saved on your browser and payment information saved on your devices. Shopping is one of life’s simple pleasures.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Fees can be charged when settling funds into your processing account, transferring funds to your bank account, and paying suppliers. Designed for modern businesses growing beyond borders, Airwallex is now trusted by leading companies around the world to manage everything from payments, treasury, and spending to embedded finance.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 6, 2021

The platform allows small businesses and online retailers to choose a preferred carrier, print shipping labels and track packages from a centralised service, and enables easy integration of a businesses online operations. Pitney Bowes has today launched its online parcel delivery platform, SendPro Online, in Australia.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Accurate demand forecasting is the bedrock of efficient inventory management — a vital logistics function that should be operating at peak performance levels during the holiday shopping season when consumers expect the inventory they want to be available. 3: Order accuracy. Peak season is not forgiving of errors. 5: Sustainability metrics.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Heartbroken by the disappearance of her cat, Filipino IT specialist and blogger Sophie* decided to use her Facebook Ads account to appeal to anyone in her local area who might have seen it. First, the bank account linked to her card was emptied of around $600. Typically she would spend PHP500-1000 per campaign (US$10-20).

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As mentioned before, insourcing can lead to cost savings in the long term if companies manage the process strategically and carefully. Inability to scale: What happens if you just executed a successful marketing campaign and demand for your product skyrockets? Disadvantages to insourcing: Resource intensive. Outsourcing Fulfillment.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

So it’s vital to make that experience count,” explains Alexandria Jurcic, national marketing manager, at Australian corrugated cardboard and packaging specialist Abbe. “It Research shows that paperboard – corrugated, folding cartons, and liquid paperboard – remains the largest material segment, accounting for 31.8

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 31, 2023

Every week, some 15 million items of used clothes end up in Ghana’s capital, shipped in bales from Europe, North America and Asia to the world’s biggest secondhand clothes market. “Many of these garments should have been disposed of there, yet they put them into bales and ship them here. . World’s no.1

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 19, 2022

To put this into perspective, Cowen Equity Research has predicted that the sneaker resale market will be worth $30 billion globally by 2030. By entering numerous emails and shipping addresses, the bots can get around traditional fraud detection systems. Bots are available to rent. Using Automated Fraud Detection to Thwart Bots.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The online retail, or e-commerce, market surpassed a staggering $1.09 Here is an abridged version of the findings: E-commerce: E-commerce retailers store a large amount of sensitive customer data, such as credit card numbers and shipping addresses. Karl Sigler is senior security research manager at Trustwave SpiderLabs.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 7, 2022

In this digital world, the key to any business’s success is its website, which is the most essential element of any marketing plan. But, according to David Boyer, country manager of ShipStation ANZ, almost any shipping-related task can be automated. ShipStation’s shipping automation rules are one way to optimise workflows.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

Meanwhile, for merchants that had already built their businesses online before the pandemic, a larger addressable market buoyed most, but created scalability challenges for all (including Amazon). 57% of BOXpoll respondents opting for free shipping consider delivery in five days to be either ‘fast’ or ‘acceptable.’ on average.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

It’s up to the brand or its agency to manage what your pricing policies will be and how you prevent being undercut by resellers on Amazon. Make it a point to manage your own catalog of products. Don’t start without a marketing strategy. That said, pricing is an important part of the Amazon retailer experience. Keep things tidy.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Forrester predicts retailers, which are already facing operational and supply chain challenges, will react to the uncertainty in 2023 by shifting to managing rising costs by rolling back offers such as free returns or delivery, and investing in optimization technologies such as order management systems.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 15, 2023

This struggle often results in missed opportunities when potential buyers abandon their shopping carts upon realising that their heartfelt gifts may not arrive on time or carry a hefty shipping cost. This signals the end to online shipping deadlines,” says Gift Flick co-founder Helen Marsh.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2022

Consumers have started taking sustainability into account when deciding what to buy and where to buy it. Much of this impact comes from shipping and warehousing, as well as from operating all those computer servers to facilitate all of those sales. Mitigating Returns.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2022

a year and continue to include free standard shipping and no service charges. Members can manage their account, discover new products and access unique content, including helpful tools and expert advice, all through the app. . Pricing for the Celebrations Passport program will remain $29.99

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2022

But supply chain disruptions resulting from the pandemic forced many store managers to go rogue and do whatever was needed to stay in business. And, according to KPMG’s 2018 Retail Trends Report , they account for up to 14% of the retailer’s overall cost of doing business. But that’s only part of the story.

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Clover - Retail

APRIL 18, 2024

Dropshipping is a type of supply chain management in which a retailer does NOT keep the product it sells in stock. Instead, when a customer orders the product, the retailer contacts their manufacturer or wholesale merchant–who keeps inventory of the product on-hand–and has the product shipped directly to the customer.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 11, 2022

The in-store associate can look up the customer’s account, be prompted with suggestions promoting alternatives, including shipping the product directly to her home or sending the customer to another store close to her home that might have the product she is looking for.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Retailers are rapidly adopting new methods to get customers to shop including Click n Collect, Ship from Store or Endless Aisle (buy from a store but ship from a warehouse). . The most obvious transactions are online orders where it is common for the order to be shipped (fulfilled) one or two days after the order was placed.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 7, 2023

There have been a lot of stories about DTC brands hitting the skids, some even filing for bankruptcy, and I think a lot of that is driven by intense marketing costs and low ROI,” said Julian Reis, Founder and CEO of SuperOrdinary in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2021

A post-pandemic uptick in Australian e-commerce is here to stay, according to a new study conducted by order and delivery management software company ShipStation. So by leveraging the information in this report, retailers can take more control of their e-commerce operations and automate a lot of those shipping challenges.”.

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Small Biz Trends

DECEMBER 30, 2021

It’s a Huge Market to Sell Clothes Online. It should be no surprise there’s a huge market for reselling clothing. Consider these latest figures from one of the top fashion resale sites, thredUP: The fashion resale industry totals about $20 billion in sales alone, and it is the biggest resale market in the US.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 8, 2024

Finally, according to the same report, internal theft accounted for 29% of shrink in 2023, while 27% was attributed to errors and process failures. This includes monitoring their employees and ensuring they receive the training they need to manage money and inventory appropriately. Michael Osborne is the CEO of Appriss Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 17, 2022

These homebound tendencies ignited a fervor for redecorating and DIY home improvement that, by all accounts, is continuing strong into 2022. Gen X homeowners are also 21% more likely than the average consumer to receive marketing messages in the mail and 30% more likely to use coupons — so don’t abandon your direct mail flyers yet.

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Inside Retail

MAY 1, 2022

Plus, mobile allows them to be “always-on” and now accounts for 63 per cent of all online purchases. . The problem is, shipping and delivery challenges often arise that are beyond the seller’s control. That means more shoppers for Australian brands and retailers – but also a more crowded market.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2021

“I would say it’s the most challenging [situation] we’ve faced, and unlike apparel, which you can air freight, in the furniture industry, you’ve actually got to get it in containers and ship it because they’re bulky goods,” he said. . We hedge our freight requirements. Another 12 months of disruption.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 5, 2022

Fraudsters are getting more sophisticated and are using a variety of tactics, such as identity theft, chargeback fraud , “silent” fraud, account takeovers and “pharming,” complicating organizations’ ability to detect these incidents. Media articles abound about the skyrocketing marketing dollars required to woo new consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 2, 2023

DTC is still very much alive and well, but digital-first companies are having to adapt to a new normal where competition is fiercer, financial pressure is ever-present and the marketing tactics that used to work so well are no longer cost-efficient. What that does is it allows you to put that money back into marketing and grow the business.”

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