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Dropshipping: Fashion’s favourite fulfilment method?

Inside Retail

Brand fulfilment and digital concessions are on the rise, which is more or less a form of dropshipping, except the goods are shipped directly from the supplier in branded packaging. Meanwhile, with traditional dropshipping, the goods will ship blind, without any marketing material that reveals the identity of the supplier.

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How to Incorporate Buy Online Ship to Store (BOSS) in Your Shop

Retail Next

One of the hottest trends in retail right now is BOSS: Buy Online and Ship to the Store for pickup (very similar to, but not the same, as BOPIS, or Buy Online, Pickup In Store). It’s the digital version, for us dinosaurs, of going to a department store and having them order the right size when something wasn’t in stock.

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#RSP22: Everything You Need to Know About Holiday 2022

Retail TouchPoints

The Retail TouchPoints 2022 Retail Strategy & Planning (#RSP22) webinar series, now available on-demand, offered a wealth of tips and best practices across critical areas including pricing, location-based technology, inventory management and marketplaces. YOY growth this holiday season, whereas department stores will only see a 0.3%

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Store Wars: Hats Off to Penney’s – Yes, JCPenney

Retail Next

Driving up to the store, I was struck by the retro façade. At RetailNext we often use two photos to illustrate how little has changed in physical retail, particularly department stores. We have one photo of a department store of today and one of 30 years ago illustrating the lack of change. But this was fun.

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The Ultimate Wholesale Fashion Clothing Suppliers List: Take Your Retail Business to the next level!

I Love Fashion

Pros Cons Stores hundreds of products styles, & premium products Allows providing samples, small and large bundles of 3 items Allows bulk discount, shipping time, and ways variations Has no minimum order and fulfills orders placed before noon PST within a day Doesn’t accept returns without prior approval 2.