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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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Back-To-School Spending Poised To Top $100 Billion Even Amid Disruption

Retail TouchPoints

Retail, Wholesale and Distribution leader in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. The most notable shift between the 2019 back-to-school season and today is the strong consumer preference for technology over traditional items like apparel and even school supplies. Health and safety fears inspiring new purchase decisions.

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Experiencing Metaverse FOMO? Don’t Panic, it’s a Marathon, Not a Sprint

Retail TouchPoints

I used to always talk about how retail can often be laggards with new technology,” said Tom Litchford, Head of Worldwide Business Development for Retail at Amazon Web Services in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. That’s not to say that retailers and brands should be writing off these concepts altogether — far from it. “I

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 303 Amazon, Walmart and E-com Q4 Results

Retail Geek

In this episode we cover: Amazon Q4 Earnings Walmart Q4 Earnings US Department of Commerce Q4 e-commerce data Discussion of Temu and other Social Commerce News Don’t forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. on a Friday night you’re.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 269 – Amazon and Instacart get new CEOs, other news

Retail Geek

9:39] In the same way it made sense for Amazon to rent a WS capacity to others and you know provide some of these other services it’s a way to monetize their delivery Network and their fulfillment Network so I think it’s super smart. Jason: [8:43] Yeah I generally agree I’m not confident that it’s I’m sure.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 290 – Shoptalk 2022

Retail Geek

Jason: [6:17] There was some version of that there was you know Uber instacart and doordash all talking about instant delivery well a lot of the, the tenuous VC funded ones were, we’re announcing their their shutdowns and for sure they’re there was I mentioned 650 exhibitors I think about 620 of them were payment providers.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 300 – Goodwill Finds CEO Matt Kaness

Retail Geek

Goodwillfinds.com is an e-commerce site, which sells previously owned merchandise, which has been donated to Goodwill. We cover many of the tactical challenges (onboarding SKUs, product content, fulfillment, and curation), as well as the opportunities of this new “CircularCommerce” space. And we wound up. [29:43]