Retail Dive

JUNE 26, 2025

Published June 26, 2025 By Tatiana Walk-Morris post share post print email license Some consumers have already started shopping for the season in order to save money. Dive Insight: Even as tariffs drive up prices on some imported goods, parents are preparing for the back-to-school shopping season. Dive Brief: Over a third of U.S.

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Retail Dive

JUNE 24, 2025

About half of consumers — 47% — have stopped shopping at a retailer due to an unfavorable return policy. Nearly 9 in 10 consumers expect free returns as standard, while 2 in 5 consider a retailer’s return policy before making a purchase. Dive Insight: Returns are essential to e-commerce, with 3 in 5 consumers making one in the past 12 months.

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Retail Dive

JUNE 24, 2025

In 2021, Amazon said it was partnering with local shops in Nebraska, Mississippi and Alabama on some deliveries, Matuszewski noted. The relative isolation of Tractor Supply customers likely motivates them to get out to stores, plus the nature of the retailer’s products and services often warrant the trip, per Jefferies.

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Retail Dive

JUNE 20, 2025

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Small Biz Trends

JULY 13, 2025

Explore antique shops, charity stores, and second-hand outlets. Utilize wholesale marketplaces that specialize in upcycling supplies. Use targeted advertising to reach potential customers, ensuring your marketing efforts extend beyond your immediate circle.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2025

Prime Day has traditionally been one of Amazon’s biggest shopping events of the year, behind Black Friday and Cyber Monday, respectively. Amazon takes a 15 per cent commission on each unit sold, not including the fees required to advertise and host discounts on Prime Day. Not all Amazon merchandise comes from third-party sellers.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 13, 2025

And it is still true today that the scarce product is predominantly available through Nike direct channels and so as they’ve come back to wholesale. They’re they’re not doing the new drops in wholesale and you know they’re going from zero skus on Amazon to a bunch of skus on Amazon but I’m kind of curious.

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Retail Dive

JUNE 23, 2025

Why does Walmart want a shopping mall? Why does Walmart want a shopping mall? As a channel, it remains key to growth for many retailers. But the era of the DTC brand as we know it is over. By Cara Salpini • Nov. 4, 2024 The image by Avicennasis is licensed under CC BY 3.0 By Nate Delesline III • Feb. 24, 2025 Keep up with the story.

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Retail Dive

JUNE 23, 2025

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Retail Dive

JUNE 23, 2025

We’re expanding our digital footprint to better serve today’s busy families and offering a more convenient, seamless, curated shopping experience from the nursery years through the teen stage,” Bill Quinn, CIO of Hibbett, said in a statement. © 2025 TechTarget, Inc. or its subsidiaries.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2021

If you’re a wholesale retailer or brand owner and you haven’t already launched a direct-to-consumer sales channel, you’d better be thinking about it. The global pandemic not only accelerated the growth in ecommerce, it highlighted the shortcomings of wholesale-only sales channels. to visit your website. Web Design & Development.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2024

Shein and Temu have launched massive advertising campaigns paired with optimized sales tactics to carve out a new niche and redefine the standards of ecommerce success. ecommerce market with TikTok Shops, delivering the most complete social commerce experience to date. billion in advertising during the first year of its U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

But as these brands and many others look to new channels, such as stores and wholesale, to combat flagging sales and elusive profitability, True Classic is doubling down on digital. . Not to mention that this approach can also be quite cost-effective, which is becoming more important as digital advertising costs skyrocket. “A

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

Only consumers only had 17% of their shopping done by early July, and 54% said they held off on spending because they didn’t know what they needed. Retail, Wholesale and Distribution leader in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. Consumers’ desire for fast, efficient shopping is giving big-box retailers an advantage.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2023

Now the company has become the first toy brand to test out the hottest new arena in digital selling — TikTok Shop. Now it’s here: first launched in the UK and several Asian markets, TikTok Shop was quietly made available in the U.S. in November 2022. in November 2022. We’re nimble and super entrepreneurial.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A new sub-brand and wholesale partnership with Walmart: With Marlow, Brooklinen is officially in the pillow business. RTP: Walmart is Marlow’s first wholesale partner and the brand is now in 1,000 of the retailer’s stores across the U.S. What is the broader vision for expansion via wholesale?

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 22, 2022

The model that Amazon first pioneered 22 years ago — an online shop of products from third-party sellers (as opposed to its own inventory) and advertising offerings to help those sellers connect with consumers — is becoming commonplace across the retail industry. It very well might be [advertising].”. Be “customer obsessed.

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Independent Retailer

JANUARY 17, 2023

The wholesale product manufacturer creates, packages, and ships the product out to your customer for you, making this a low maintenance business model. In the current web-based world of retail and wholesale, dropshipping makes a lot of sense. Choose Your Wholesale Dropshipping Supplier. What is Dropshipping?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Over three -plus years, I have had the honor of speaking with industry pros who have rich backgrounds in tech, marketing and advertising, operations, finance and so much more. While some DTC brands are strategically entering into brick-and-mortar via branded storefronts, others are doubling down on wholesale.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

Sharon Gee: People aren’t going to forget their new digital training; they’re not going to forget how to shop online for groceries. Merchants, particularly large retailers, who historically had this wholesale relationship where they had vendors and buyers now recognize there’s a benefit to a third-party marketplace model.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 27, 2021

They join a growing roster of retailers that are expanding their online reach by allowing third-party brands to sell directly through their ecommerce sites , bypassing traditional wholesale relationships. Verizon Media is taking a different tack with its Yahoo Shops marketplace, announced in March 2021 and set to launch later this year.

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Independent Retailer

JULY 7, 2022

If you are debating whether or not to start a wholesale business, you have come to the right place. As a wholesaler, you are going to be providing products to other companies at a discounted price. Now that you know what wholesalers do, you also need to understand profit margins in order to make money. billion in revenues).

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Ads are everywhere and Japanese consumers are very receptive to advertising. Search advertising is a $17 billion business, dominated by LINE, Twitter, Facebook, Japan Google and Yahoo Japan. What are the existing relationships with retailers/distributors/wholesalers in that country/region and their capabilities to support you?

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2020

Retail TouchPoints recently spoke with Randall Rothenberg, CEO of IAB , a trade association for interactive marketing representing more than 600 leading media, marketing and technology companies, to see how top brands are adjusting their marketing to address significant increases in web traffic and other changes in shopping behavior.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

These new capabilities are now available to grocers across North America and are already being used by wholesalers like Associated Food Stores as well as retailers including New Seasons Market , Niemann Foods , The Fresh Market and Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace.

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Independent Retailer

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Wholesale inventory bloat, combined with a softening demand in the economy, is taking its toll on cash flow and earnings at retailers. . ” Here are 7 tips for retailers on how to better manage their wholesale inventory and get rid of some of that product bloat: Return for a Refund or Credit. Donate Excess Wholesale Inventory.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2021

After all, in the midst of a pandemic, with most everyone spending a lot more time at home and almost no time out on the town, bling was not at the top of many shopping lists. It closed down all channels except online, and put all its advertising dollars and social media initiatives into selling direct to consumers (DTC).

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Wiser

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Direct-to-consumer strategies have transformed retail, both in the way consumers shop and how brands and retailers manufacture, market, and sell. ” This is contrary to the traditional strategy of wholesale, when brands partner with retailers to distribute products in bulk for sale by those retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2023

Consumers are also driving the march to automation, asking retailers for automated features to make their shopping journeys more seamless. All in all, automation can save sellers time by expediting requests while offering the 24/7 support customers want and need from the businesses they frequently visit or shop with. What’s Next?

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2023

As D2C evolved so did consumers, as many sought various ways to shop for their favorite brands other than solely through vertical sites. Customers today know what they want as their decision-making happens online, but more than 85% of purchases are still predominantly made through wholesalers like Target, Walmart and more.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 26, 2024

RTP: How are you balancing your marketing and advertising to drive traffic not just to your owned ecommerce platform but also to your wholesale retail partners like Target? Our mission is to make all dogs happy, so we want to make sure that we are connecting with consumers on their terms — when, where and how they want to shop.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2023

He created a TikTok to advertise his idea and made $40,000 in sales during the first month with just one style in one color. as it waited to find the right location within the solution provider’s real estate portfolio, ultimately choosing a shop off Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Who is shopping? What are they shopping for?

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 21, 2024

We have also made sure to incorporate artwork from the brand’s vibrant history with historical advertisements, art and posters,” said Julie Therond, general manager of Longchamp Australia & New Zealand. Currently, there are five directly operated ‘doors’ in Australia, and the plan is to have an additional three within the next two years.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2024

This holistic strategy encompasses product innovation as well as wholesale distribution and reach. It’s obviously a narrower subset of product, but they are our best and brightest, so we are really excited about the opportunity that that opens for us to meet even more consumers in the preferred local places where they shop.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

E-commerce businesses are navigating new economic conditions that have seen reduced discretionary spending and the Covid-19 online shopping storms subsiding. I was thinking wholesale and was taking my product around to stores and I remember being rejected all the time.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

And in some cases, you can even lean into some seasonal references to get people in the holiday shopping mood. Video credit: Touchland Some consumers may prefer to do the majority of their shopping online this holiday season, but as the season progresses, they may want to ensure they get their gifts on time.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We’ve just hired a new CFO, a new head of retail and wholesale, our new head of digital started in August and of course, myself. We signed up with two new agencies in September as well, so we’re rolling out much more aggressive social media advertising and Google Shopping campaigns. It really is back to basics.

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