Indigo 9 Digital

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Farfetch claims it is the largest digital marketplace for luxury fashion. Commissions typically range from 25%-33% depending on whether in addition to providing eCommerce functionality Farfetch manages shipping, returns or other services. In 2015 Farfetch purchased Browns, a luxury fashion boutique in London.

Boutique 98

Boutique Fashion Customer Experience Markdowns 98

Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

Maintaining margins within business constraints while efficiently providing order fulfillment to customers is a tall order, especially considering each customer purchase requires a real-time fulfillment decision within a shifting context of inventory, demand, returns, delivery times, and shipping costs. That’s the billion dollar question.

Fulfillment 41

Fulfillment Drop-Shipping Shipping Returns 41

Retalon

JUNE 11, 2021

And retailers are rushing to offer new fulfillment options, like “buy online, pick up in-store” (BOPIS), curbside pickups, cashless checkouts, drop-shipping, mobile shopping and more. Consumers expect to seamlessly interact with brands and retailers across multiple channels, such as brick-and-mortar, social media and e-commerce.

Fulfillment 41

Fulfillment Drop-Shipping Markdowns Returns 41

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

By creating narrower product assortments and limiting inventory levels — especially for product shipments headed to brick-and-mortar stores —merchants would gain the ability to react more quickly to changing consumer trends, and even potentially reduce their need for markdowns. What can the retailer learn from and improve?

Drop-Shipping 183

Drop-Shipping Merchant Services Fulfillment Shipping 183

Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

For discretionary retailers – fashion, homewares, sporting goods and the like – the balancing act is harder. The well-documented shipping delays for offshore sourcing exacerbate the challenge. The role of discounts coupled with seasonal markdowns needs to be managed more than ever.

Planning 130

Planning Markdowns Sporting Goods Shipping 130

Retail Prophet

JULY 18, 2022

If a single image has come to define the failure of global supply chains amid the Covid-19 crisis it’s that of the Ever Given – one of the world’s largest container ships – seized in a diagonal death grip inside the Suez Canal, heavy with more than twenty thousand units of cargo aboard. Slave laborers load cotton onto waiting ships.

Dead-Stock 59

Dead-Stock Shipping Merchant Services Markdowns 59

Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

You’re gonna end up making some ill-advised purchases and then it seems like everything drop ships from factories. post so they if you remember back in the day wish was like very slow shipping like to 26 weeks. Scot: [32:58] Do they have infrastructure in the US like to do shipping and stuffers at all come straight from China.

Apparel 52

Apparel Drop-Shipping Social Commerce Shipping 52