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How Bo & Luca’s founder navigated warfare whilst remaining true to her purpose

Inside Retail

At the time, our business model was wholesale and our business relied on our 48 global stockists. We managed to have all of the gowns remade and sent out in time for all of our brides’ wedding dates. We create for the customer and do not create large runs, which ensures there is no dead stock.

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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. We don’t have any wholesale. And it’s like, okay.

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ApnaKlub: From selling mangoes to shaking up India’s retail scene

Inside Retail

The B2B wholesale platform has an intent to disrupt the FMCG landscape through resellers and wholesalers based in the country’s semi-urban and quasi-rural regions. The B2B wholesale platform has an intent to disrupt the FMCG landscape through resellers and wholesalers based in the country’s semi-urban and quasi-rural regions. “We

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

Inside Retail

Every year, we learn more about our customers, or more about social media, or how to better manage our email [marketing]. 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. Another thing is SKUs. That’s a big one.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 275 – DTC with Mickey Drexler

Retail Geek

Because again they weren’t dealing with competitive sales my department store experience was the opposite, if you’re in buying wholesale someone else will put the goods on sale and of course today you know 30 years later plus it’s the standard. [7:35] 7:35] And so I decided when I got to Ann Taylor. [7:39]

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

Retail Geek

Mark is an experienced Marketplace seller, and his current business Guardian Baseball is a hybrid seller selling both wholesale and owned brands direct to consumer from a Shopify site, and via multiple marketplaces including Amazon. Pain management we really tried to rely on our.