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Off-price domination continues as department stores yield more share

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Published June 12, 2025 Daphne Howland Senior Reporter post share post print email license A Nordstrom Rack location across from the department store's Seattle flagship. Daphne Howland/Retail Dive Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Other department stores are also pushing further into off price.

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Nike’s eCommerce Strategy, 4 Reasons Why Digital Sales are Soaring

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Build your own platform by moving away from wholesale The year was 2013 and 81% of Nike’s business came from wholesale. Fast forward to 2021 and sales generated through Nike’s wholesale channel made up 61% of Nike’s sales. Nike also reduced its reliance on department stores. Do you like this content?

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How Nike CEO Elliott Hill is building out his turnaround team

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Matt Powell, an adviser with BCE Consulting, said via email that the chief executive has been “thoughtfully building his team to execute the turnaround,” which is centered on rebuilding relationships with wholesale partners and rightsizing key footwear franchises like Air Force 1 and Dunk. You can unsubscribe at anytime.

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DTC footwear brand Oofos opens first stores

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Dive Insight: After 14 years of building a brand through DTC, Amazon and wholesale partnerships, Oofos has opened its first permanent store locations. Each store is 150 square feet with additional storage space and follows a series of pop-up shops Oofos tested across the country over the years. You can unsubscribe at anytime.

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Why Direct to Consumer Brands Struggle with Profitability

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Take department store Kohl’s, last year its marketing costs were only 4.9% in 2020 highlighting the high customer acquisition costs direct-to-consumer retailers often face. As a way to spend less on marketing Casper started selling in wholesale channels like Target starting in 2016 and began opening stores in 2018.

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Alibaba vs. Amazon, 7 Differences & Similarities

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Alibaba.com is a business-to-business wholesale website where manufacturers, trading companies and resellers trade goods in large quantities. If you do subscribe to our retail trends newsletter to get the latest retail insights & trends delivered to your inbox. Do you like this content?

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Nordstrom Leaves Canada, 9 Reasons Why

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A trend that has been in place over the last several years is that luxury brands continue to open their own stores and bolster their own eCommerce capabilities. Why should a brand sell wholesale when it can sell directly to its customers? Many of the luxury stores in Yorkdale were not there ten years ago. Demographics.

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