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Australian Department Store Digitizes Merch Buying Experience

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David Jones , the Australian premium department store, has digitized its merchandising and buying process as part of its broader Vision 2025+ strategy.

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BJ’s Wholesale Club Positions Smaller Store Concept as ‘Innovation Lab’

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BJ’s Wholesale Club is testing out a smaller store format called BJ’s market. The first 43,000 -square-foot concept store opened in Warwick, R.I. BJ’s market will offer the same product sizes and pricing as BJ’s club stores, as well as the same omnichannel services such as curbside pickup and same-day delivery.

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Inside Natori’s Transformation from High-End Wholesaler to Omnichannel Brand

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The company’s wholesale business is still thriving, but now it’s only part of an omnichannel strategy that includes ecommerce , social commerce and marketplaces. Loyalty to those stores used to be 100% — a top customer would go to Neiman Marcus for everything and not go anywhere else. Introducing DTC Without Damaging Wholesale.

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How Korea’s big 3 department stores are killing it right now

Inside Retail

First quarter results for calendar year 2022 are in for the three biggest Korean department store retailers, and the numbers are encouraging. Shinsegae, Lotte, and Hyundai account for the top nine department stores in the country (coming in at number 10 is Galleria’s high-end flagship in Seoul). trillion KRW ($2.1

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In for a penny, in for a pound: Thailand’s Central bets big on wholesale

Inside Retail

Thai retail conglomerate Central Retail (CRC for short) has launched full-on into the wholesale business under the name Go Wholesale, and is planning to give CP Axtra — parent company of retailer Lotus’s and wholesaler Makro — a run for its money. It operates 164 wholesale units, of which all but 10 are in Thailand itself.

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Patagonia Workers in Reno Store Vote to Join Union

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The associates at a Patagonia store in Reno, Nev. have voted to join the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 711 , marking the first successful unionization effort at a Patagonia store. with the RWDSU and five Vertical Endeavors climbing gyms in Minnesota.

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Dropshipping: Fashion’s favourite fulfilment method?

Inside Retail

Now, we’re moving further up the supply chain, with manufacturers and suppliers doing the same, shunning wholesale distribution in favour of a different model. Why fashion loves dropshipping This is the digital version of department stores that decades ago moved to concessions taking a percentage of sales.