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Associated Wholesale Grocers Streamlines Member Access to Instacart Delivery and Smart Carts

Retail TouchPoints

Cooperative food wholesaler Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG) , which serves independently owned supermarkets, has expanded its partnership with Instacart to offer ecommerce and same-day delivery solutions as well as smart cart technology to its member retailers.

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Casper CEO’s Roadmap to Profitability: Control Costs, Expand Wholesale and Cater to Customers

Retail TouchPoints

What that meant was that we were anti-customer; we were optimized around internal channel accounting and not what was in the best interest of the customer. RTP: Casper has its roots in DTC, but you’ve since expanded with your own stores and through wholesale. How do you view those channels? Megibow: Our stores do great.

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Inside Natori’s Transformation from High-End Wholesaler to Omnichannel Brand

Retail TouchPoints

The company’s wholesale business is still thriving, but now it’s only part of an omnichannel strategy that includes ecommerce , social commerce and marketplaces. Introducing DTC Without Damaging Wholesale. The key in the end was to ensure that Natori.com wasn’t really competing with the brand’s wholesale partners.

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KMD Brands expects lower sales due to weak consumer sentiment

Inside Retail

. “Rip Curl and Oboz are recycling record sales last financial year and while revenues from the direct-to-consumer channel for these brands are showing single-digit declines, the wholesale channel has been more challenging as wholesale accounts reduce inventory holdings,” said KMD Brands CEO and MD Michael Daly.

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KMD Brands expects lower sales due to weak consumer sentiment

Inside Retail

. “Rip Curl and Oboz are recycling record sales last financial year and while revenues from the direct-to-consumer channel for these brands are showing single-digit declines, the wholesale channel has been more challenging as wholesale accounts reduce inventory holdings,” said KMD Brands CEO and MD Michael Daly.

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Wholesale Carriers Benefit from the Cisco/Qwilt Solution

Cisco Retail

For wholesale carriers, the argument may go, “I don’t own the end subscriber session and therefore this doesn’t make business sense for me”. Wholesale carriers own/operate an open access network and sell network capacity to other CSPs. The CSPs’ advanced traffic management can further enhance streaming quality.

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12 Accounting Mistakes New Business Owners Often Make

Small Biz Trends

A new business won’t survive long if it doesn’t have solid cash flow and a good accounting system in place. To that end, a panel of Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) members answered the following question: “What’s one accounting mistake that new business owners might tend to make, and why? How can they fix it?”