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What is Direct-to-Consumer and How to Balance D2C with Wholesale

Wiser

Direct-to-consumer strategies have transformed retail, both in the way consumers shop and how brands and retailers manufacture, market, and sell. As with any successful retail strategy, there are pros, cons, and considerations before fully embracing—or rejecting—D2C. Importantly, a winning direct-to-consumer business will artfully navigate the relationships between brand, retailer, and consumer.

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5 Ways Retailers Can Use Video Marketing

Retail Next

Retailers of all kinds – local, international, online or those with ‘brick and mortar’ shops – should embrace new ways of connecting to shoppers if they want to continue to grow brand awareness. A great way to generate new and lasting business relationships is by exploring different marketing strategies, including video marketing. With video predicted to account for 80 percent of all web traffic by the end of 2019, the significance of this marketing tool for retailers cannot be ove

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Weekly Industry Brief: 10.15.2019

Fashion Retail Tech

Hi! Here is your weekly recap of industry news. Sources are in the hyperlinked text after the headline. Brands + Retailers. Handbag sales reveal a major shift in where consumers are shopping. CNBC. Toys ‘R’ Us taps Target to fulfill online orders. AdAge. How Glossier grew from millennial catnip to billion-dollar juggernaut. Vanity Fair . LVMH bets on a mental health-focused streetwear label.

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Ethoca wins Most Innovative Online Solution at the UK Fraud Awards 2019

Retail Technology Review

Ethoca, the leading provider of collaboration-based technology solutions that help card issuers and online merchants increase card acceptance and stop ecommerce fraud and disputes, has won ‘Most Innovative Online Solution’ at the UK Fraud Awards 2019.

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Get MACH Ready: Preparing Your Business for Digital Transformation

Adopting MACH technology means more than implementing new platforms. This type of digital change affects your organization at every level and requires a thoughtful approach to navigate challenges that crop up. The Get MACH Ready report, co-authored by MACH Alliance member Scott Canney in collaboration with Orium, commercetools, and Contentstack, will provide you with strategies to prepare your organization for a digital transformation.

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Retail Performance Pulse: Labor Day Performance Powers Stores to the Close of a Strong Summer Quarter

Retail Next

The latest edition of the RetailNext Retail Performance Pulse has been published and is available for download, providing an overview of brick-and-mortar store performance for the retail month of September 2019 (September 1 through October 5 on the industry’s 4-5-4 calendar). Download the Retail Performance Pulse for September 2019 store results. Store performance in September provided another proof point that while shoppers might visit physical stores less often, when they do, they do so with a

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5 Online Hacks to Boost Local Footfall to Your Store

Retail Next

Major retailers are disappearing from our towns, and it’s a trend that looks set to continue. So far in 2019, Macy’s, and even Walmart, have announced plans to close some of their stores, while Barney’s New York has filed for bankruptcy. On the face of it, the future for brick-and-mortar stores doesn’t look good and the reasons are well-recognized. The way consumers are shopping has changed and many larger chains have failed to keep up with the trends.

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New wide-load bagging machine boosts flexibility for growing e-commerce businesses?

Retail Technology Review

With e-commerce continuing to grow year on year, along with ever-changing customer requirements, Automated Packaging Systems has launched the the Autobag 600 and Autobag 650, which have been designed to offer large bag packaging, providing mail order customers with a packaging solution, regardless of product size.

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Ecommerce will account for a third of all global chain retail sales in five years

Retail Technology Review

Analysts predict that 30% of global retail sales will be made through ecommerce channels by 2024, according to global ecommerce insights business Edge by Ascential at Retail Week’s Tech. festival.