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

Retail TouchPoints

BJ’s Wholesale Club is testing out a smaller store format called BJ’s market. 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. The first 43,000 -square-foot concept store opened in Warwick, R.I.

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Fashion label Cos launches with The Iconic

Inside Retail

H&M-owned fashion brand Cos has partnered with pureplay retailer The Iconic to further expand its wholesale presence across the Tasman. The London-based brand sells elevated wardrobe essentials in innovative designs and operates 252 stores across 47 physical markets, 38 online markets and wholesale partners.

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How T-Shirt Brand Goodlife is Using CPG Tactics to Conquer High-End Fashion

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In 2014, fashion veteran Christopher Molnar decided to go after a white space he felt was being overlooked by the big fashion houses — premium essentials. Molnar grew up in the fashion business — his father helped launch Hugo Boss into North America in the ‘70s. Product that Delivers on its Promise.

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

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The designer fashion brand launched its own ecommerce operation in 2008, at a time when many other high-end specialty labels were still turning up their noses at digital. 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.

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What’s behind the re-emergence of teen fashion brand Pavement?

Inside Retail

In 2020, Australian teen fashion brand Pavement joined a large list of retailers that entered voluntary administration, citing the Covid-19 pandemic as a major factor contributing to their exit from the retail landscape. The post What’s behind the re-emergence of teen fashion brand Pavement?

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‘An exciting way to test a new market’: More fashion brands turn to rental

Inside Retail

Fulfilment by GlamCorner now sees the platform handling the logistics of clothing rental on behalf of fashion brands, including warehousing, cleaning, shipping and returns, and giving brands their own rental stores, which they can embed in their e-commerce sites and promote to customers. The ‘Attenborough’ effect.

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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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