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“It’s been an awesome journey”: Marcus Crook on founding HoMie

Inside Retail

Marcus Crook: I was always into fashion and had worked casually in retail, but I never had any experience in business or design. So I think it was just a passion to do good mixed with a passion for fashion – merging the two to create something that could make a difference in the community. How did it start, and how has it evolved?

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How pop-ups helped inform Kat the Label’s new flagship store in Melbourne

Inside Retail

She said that the new store’s vibe straddles the line between being very racy, as well as daggy and old-fashioned, and will enable customers to experience what is showcased online, and touch and feel the products prior to purchase. Its packaging and shipping is biodegradable, and its online orders are carbon-offset.

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4 Critical Steps for Optimizing Omnichannel Order Fulfillment in 2021

Retalon

Maintaining margins within business constraints while efficiently providing order fulfillment to customers is a tall order, especially considering each customer purchase requires a real-time fulfillment decision within a shifting context of inventory, demand, returns, delivery times, and shipping costs. That’s the billion dollar question.

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How Aussie label Form & Fold is building a better swimwear brand

Inside Retail

I loved fashion but wasn’t envisioning starting a brand. We really want to extend our size range, but it’s such an undertaking, and you’re left with so much dead stock because it’s really hard to forecast. These are big names in luxury fashion; how did you get on their radar? Another thing is SKUs.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 314 – Lovesac Founder and CEO Shawn Nelson

Retail Geek

We don’t, we don’t stock things there. And yeah, it is, I was like, I’m not going to look at the stock, it’s not going to influence me. You mean like software that, that does stuff in an automated fashion?

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The Future of Retail in the New Era of Risk

Retail Prophet

If a single image has come to define the failure of global supply chains amid the Covid-19 crisis it’s that of the Ever Given – one of the world’s largest container ships – seized in a diagonal death grip inside the Suez Canal, heavy with more than twenty thousand units of cargo aboard. Slave laborers load cotton onto waiting ships.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 297 -GroceryShop 2022 and news

Retail Geek

Scot: [33:57] Yeah and then yeah so I think I think they probably, you know what they’re doing is 10 experiments and getting rid of 3 and people focus on that versus the seven they’re keeping in those seven they’ll keep iterating on and making better so I don’t think it’s dead.