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How Retailers Can Make Effective Changes for Better Logistics Operations

Retail TouchPoints

This massive increase put significant strains on the supply chain as well as shipping and delivery. Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, items that consumers shopped for reflected the stay-at-home sentiment, such as household essentials, electronics and entertainment and health, beauty and wellness products.

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Have Temu and Shein Thwarted Wish’s Hopes of a Comeback?

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And Wish, which held that top spot back in 2018, has now dropped out of the top 50 completely after having fallen to #35 as of last March. There are other troublesome indicators for the company: Q2 saw declines across the board at Wish. The trade-off is long shipping times, another thing Wish is working hard to improve.

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Why Pet Supplements and Medications Are Soaring

Rangeme

The pandemic was a preview of that, with pet care sales worldwide soaring by almost 9% in 2020, especially in certain categories: pet food sales grew 8%; accessories by 10%; and beauty and grooming categories increasing the most by 11%. Part of this vigorous purchasing for our furry friends has focused on their health.

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RangeMe Recap of the 2021 Global Market: Fall Experience

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The goal of bringing suppliers and retail buyers across categories from around the world to meet face-to-face virtually was happily fulfilled. In the Fireside Chat with Musab Bulbale, How Does Walmart Win in Beauty, Bulbale explained that Gen Z is the future that needs to be addressed in retail today. Responsible retailing.

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Localisation, livestreaming and logistics: How to tap into the Chinese market

Inside Retail

health supplements. It goes without saying that you’re going to need to translate all of your marketing and packaging materials into Chinese and work through your fulfilment and logistical challenges from the start. According to Alibaba, the product categories that attract the most attention from Chinese online consumers are: ?

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 251 Annual Predictions 2021

Retail Geek

Retailer offers viable health alt insurance option to consumers. Amazon Shopify Competitor (shipping solution). Shipping (Shopify) – launch own DSP. Scot: [11:10] Yeah this is where oddly enough to pandemic Health my prediction. Grocery E-Com > 10% someone deploys(not pilots) MFC. Retail Media > $20B.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 296 – Guardian Baseball Co-Founder Matt Kubancik

Retail Geek

Matt: [2:05] No not at all actually spent six months in in college dropped out was one of the original I started selling on eBay 1999. Excellent capability of functioning in the warehouse so providing quality control integrating with the shipping carriers like ship work shipstation.