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Identifying the ‘Faces’ Behind Faceless Online Transactions

Retail TouchPoints

According to McKinsey , ecommerce sales in apparel, department stores and beauty products have increased by nearly 10%, on average, since the onset of the pandemic. Because of this ease, merchants have begun relying on POS financing to drive sales growth. According to McKinsey, merchants face up to 2.4X

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How Retailers Can Control Costs Even As Return Rates Climb

Retail TouchPoints

In the wake of COVID-19, returns are receiving serious (and necessary) attention for several key reasons: Retailers are spending more processing returns in stores. However, apparel and department stores are elevated. Department stores are normally at 11% , but they are currently near 14%.

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#RSP22: Everything You Need to Know About Holiday 2022

Retail TouchPoints

The Mastercard SpendingPulse measures in-store and online retail sales across all forms of payment, providing a wealth of insights to help merchants refine and optimize their holiday strategies. YOY growth this holiday season, whereas department stores will only see a 0.3%

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

I Love Fashion

Wholesale clothing supplier sells large amounts of products to online store owners or retailers at a comparatively lower price than the market. Considering the process of wholesale clothing can be divided into 3 categories. For that reason, brokers are also called commission merchants. Let’s know about them.

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Meet the new Chinese luxury shopper: Q&A with Alibaba’s Christina Fontana

Inside Retail

The role now is broader and to help merchants understand Alibaba, work with Alibaba, understand how they can integrate our digital innovation into their business models. They expect a level of service now through digital that they didn’t expect before. I’m really excited. That was not their goal.

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These Were the Top 10 Retail Stories of 2021

VMS

Effective in the third quarter, Andy Jassy, formerly CEO of Amazon Web Services, stepped up to replace Bezos. Bezos’ rocket ship went up to the stars (which got all the headlines) and came back down again (hardly mentioned). Much of it is sitting in ships stacking up at various U.S. Heaven, Earth and Herald Square.

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Forever 21: 4 Reasons it Failed & Filed for Bankruptcy

Indigo 9 Digital

After Forever 21 opened its first store in 1984 in the United States fast fashion started to gain in popularity. Although clothing is a department store staple retailers like Sears or specialty retailers like Gap couldn’t keep up with a more nimble fast fashion retailer like Forever 21. and ultimately profitability.