Retail Focus

APRIL 1, 2025

For example, a fashion store may sell winter clothing in the Northern Hemisphere while offering summer apparel to customers in the South. They want seamless experiencesfrom clear product information and localised payment options to transparent shipping costs and easy returns. However, these challenges are not insurmountable.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 27, 2024

Citing slides shown to Chinese sellers in a recent “closed-door meeting,” The Information reports that Amazon plans to launch a special section on its site featuring low-price unbranded items that ship directly from Chinese warehouses. office and fulfillment hub in Amazon’s backyard of Seattle.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Insourcing Fulfillment. Your in-house fulfillment may not be able to handle your spike in order volume without overwhelming production capabilities. You won’t be able to fulfill orders or there will be a significant delay in fulfillment. Outsourcing Fulfillment. Increased errors. Advantages of Outsourcing.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Macy’s has joined a number of other major retailers — including Walmart , Kohl’s and JCPenney — in the Fanatics club after announcing a new partnership with the online sports merchandise retailer to increase its own online assortment of fan apparel 20X , according to multiple sources.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Customers will now be able to earn Stitch Fix credit for “gently worn” apparel items they give back to the brand via ThredUp ’s Resale-as-a-Service (RaaS) functionality.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

RFID-ticketed products are not yet required for drop-ship suppliers. That includes a large percentage of Nordstrom’s merchandise, such as apparel, accessories, home and gift products, baby gear, shoes and some cosmetics. Products that do not yet require RFID are mostly cosmetics, along with some household products and jewelry.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In fact, BOPIS became the new norm for items across all categories, from footwear and apparel to accessories, home goods, furniture and more. This created a ripple effect for retailers that were experiencing a higher volume of ecommerce orders and had to leverage stores as fulfillment centers to process and ship online orders.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2023

The Container Store has debuted its Closet Clean Out resale program for apparel and accessories, powered by the ThredUp Resale-as-a-Service solution. Additionally, footwear and apparel retailer Sam Edelman has launched its ReLove resale initiative with support from the Archive platform.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 11, 2022

Retailers are now investing significant resources into logistics, deploying the latest inventory management systems, automating warehouses and hiring hundreds of hardworking staff in an effort to pick, pack and ship online orders as quickly as possible. Using this stock to fulfil online orders is known as ship-from-store. .

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

So let’s have a look at ‘last mile fulfilment’ and two areas in particular that are delivering significant efficiencies and cost reductions for businesses. We continue to work with numerous partners like Retail Apparel Group to analyse and implement last-mile fulfilment using stores and warehouses.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2022

while other apparel and electronics retailers will trumpet order-to-pickup service times of under five minutes. Shipping capacity will continue to be constrained, and most packages will be delivered in two to three days to manage costs, but you’ll have easy choices for faster delivery.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 22, 2024

The crux of the issue lies in how revenue is recognized: most ecommerce platforms record revenue based on the sale date, not the ship date, contradicting Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), which require specific treatment of revenue recognition. This discrepancy in revenue recognition can have profound implications.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 4, 2021

Amazon has introduced two new Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) programs to help merchants selling on Amazon resell customer-returned or overstocked items. Shoppers can collect their unwanted apparel and either ship it directly to Farfetch or have it picked up for free.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 31, 2021

“I do think the nature of retail jobs will change, whether it’s [staffing] microfulfillment centers or just ship-from-store and BOPIS,” said David Ritter, Managing Director of the Alvarez & Marsal Consumer and Retail Group in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

This includes regional positioning of inventory for e-Commerce fulfillment, retail store transfers, and direct-to-store shipments straight from overseas factories. As a top executive of a leading apparel player recently declared, ‘We’ve accomplished two years of digital transformation in two months.’”.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2022

Consumers can fill the ThredUP Clean Out Kits with women’s and kids’ apparel, shoes and accessories from any brand and ship them to ThredUP for free using a prepaid shipping label.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The National Basketball Association’s Charlotte Hornets have debuted a Virtual Fan Shop that will allow fans to interact with each other virtually as well as browse and purchase fan gear that will then be shipped to their home in the real world.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The site offers items across categories including apparel, jewelry, pet supplies and home and garden, many at bargain prices. Temu’s site shows average shipping times to most of the U.S. Pinduoduo has made its most aggressive move yet into non-Chinese markets with the Sept.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 25, 2022

Retailers save on shipping costs while leveraging their in-store inventories to fulfill customer orders, while shoppers get the products they want without having to wait for a delivery. Prior to this, online orders had been fulfilled from a central distribution center. Click-and-collect, a.k.a.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Last week, the Detroit-based company launched Xpress Ship, a new feature that shortens the shipping time for verified items to three business days. Under the Xpress Ship program, products are sent to an authentication centre, where they go through a multi-step verification process.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Retailers, particularly those in the apparel, footwear and soft goods verticals, have an opportunity to turn the lemons from COVID-19 into lemonade, according to Keith Jelinek and Richard Maicki, Managing Directors in the Performance Improvement Practice of Berkeley Research Group (BRG). Keith Jelinek.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 24, 2020

Industry is working to develop and document standardized methods to describe raw material attributes for apparel and general merchandise. If every single order gets shipped in an individual box, inefficiencies abound. Order Consolidation. Many are motivated to consider these factors in their purchasing decisions.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Seeking to minimize customers’ return complexities, Walmart has partnered with FedEx for at-home pickup of unwanted gifts or ill-fitting apparel. Customers can schedule returns via the new Carrier Pickup by FedEx service for products that have been shipped and sold by Walmart.com, using either the website or the Walmart app.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Some of the most popular gift-giving categories are those experiencing the highest levels of inflation, including electronics , toys and apparel. The three top categories for BNPL online orders were apparel ( 43% ), electronics ( 33% ) and grocery ( 30% ), and Adobe also found that the minimum order value is down 12% from 2020 to $225. “If

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 3, 2023

Individuals and companies are finding that they can apply the lens of sustainability to virtually any part of their operations — from the raw materials used to make products to how those products are packed for shipping to handling the waste that comes from unsold food.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Pearson sees apparel, homewares and toys as being “destination” categories for Target, where it not only can compete against other value retailers on quality and price, but take market share off of premium specialty stores. Pearson believes this hybrid fulfilment model gives Target an advantage over other retailers.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 26, 2021

Fulfilment by GlamCorner now sees the platform handling the logistics of clothing rental on behalf of fashion brands, including warehousing, cleaning, shipping and returns, and giving brands their own rental stores, which they can embed in their e-commerce sites and promote to customers. Camilla targets teen ‘formal’ shopper.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 1, 2025

We never found that [a sitewide sale] is the right approach in the apparel space because that is giving away margin on good products that people pay good prices for, Pavone explained. A promotion or two may be a necessary Hail Mary in tough times, but James Pavone, CFO of Forever New, warned that retailers must be clever about how to do that.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 1, 2023

Sophia Pope is the sales and customer success leader for Shipstation, a leading web-based order management and shipping software designed to help retailers efficiently process, fulfil and ship their e-commerce orders. Another strategy, she says, is to automate fulfilment. link] “One is a multi-carrier strategy.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2023

As its reach and impact in the fashion industry continues to grow, SHEIN is focused on righting the brand ship and zeroing in on its manufacturing and product development processes. billion on a pa r tnership with Apparel Impact Institute , a nonprofit that works with manufacturers to set and implement energy efficiency programs.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2024

The team in Florida, looking for ways to expedite the expansion, was toying with the idea of using shipping containers as temporary shopping venues while parts of the expansion were being built out. And voila, a solution to Lazenby’s pop-up dilemma! ACCESS Pop-Up center courtyard at night.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Take note of category demands: While the Mastercard SpendingPulse revealed moderate growth across categories, electronics, apparel and luxury (excluding jewelry) are likely to have the most significant year-over-year gains. This will create a significant opportunity for specialty apparel retailers, which are predicted to see 4.6%

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

The trade-off is long shipping times, another thing Wish is working hard to improve. Temu also operates as a manufacturer-to-consumer marketplace and offers a wide range of merchandise, from homewares to apparel. which Yan said should enable faster shipping times on those products for North American customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

“Seamlessly integrated into Macy’s digital shopping experience, marketplace gives our customers access to an array of expertly curated products — from apparel and beauty to home improvement, toys, pet products and more.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2021

These brands can consistently fulfill orders on schedule and supply customers with supporting documents. They can then collect, organize and distribute these documents while reducing the risk that a customer order goes missing or is shipped without supporting documentation. Transaction tracking. Compliance.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 10, 2020

Walmart, however, is not taking in-store returns for apparel, cleaning supplies, health and beauty or pharmacy purchases, although customers can ship products back using the Walmart app or web site. This policy prompted customer complaints that a local ABC TV affiliate in Chicago reported on.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2020

While the name Burton is almost synonymous with the snowboards the company began making in 1977, Burton has diversified over the years into new categories — including surfboards, apparel, goggles/optics and other sports gear — as well as expanding beyond manufacturing into direct-to-consumer (DTC) retail, both physical and digital.

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