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

Retail TouchPoints

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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How Retailers like Rothy’s and Shinola are ‘De-Risking’ Product Design with Consumer Data

Retail TouchPoints

Technological innovations have optimized and enhanced almost all areas of the retail organization, from marketing to fulfillment, but the process of bringing products to market has been markedly slower to advance. But these legacy processes don’t work as well as they once did, and COVID made that fact hard to ignore. “A

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2022 Retail Success Guide

Independent Retailer

Crypto Payments Help Deliver a Competitive Advantage. Crypto payments help businesses attract a new customer segment while also lowering payment costs and eliminating fraud chargebacks. There are four main findings based on interviews with four merchants that accept bitcoin and other cryptos.

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Experiencing Metaverse FOMO? Don’t Panic, it’s a Marathon, Not a Sprint

Retail TouchPoints

I used to always talk about how retail can often be laggards with new technology,” said Tom Litchford, Head of Worldwide Business Development for Retail at Amazon Web Services in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. Now does everyone need to go build a virtual fashion division tomorrow? Probably not.

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Retail Minded Announces Debut B2B Trade Show Supporting Sexual Wellness: Introducing STIMULATE

Retail Minded

STIMULATE will connect retailers to industry leading vendors and retail service providers to support the growing demand of sexual wellness products that include lingerie and intimates, pleasure products, bath + personal hygiene, lubricants + grooming, costumes + fetish, fashion accessories, games + gifts, novelty and more.

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From ‘Beautiful Playground’ to ‘Commerce Destination’: Inside the Vision of Pinterest’s New Chief Shopping Officer

Retail TouchPoints

After brief stints in wholesale retail and investment banking, Bornstein found her calling when Amazon made its debut in 1996. From the moment Amazon launched my brain sort of exploded with all the possibilities of things you could do with fashion and other verticals online ,” she recounted in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Your Full Guide on Partnering With a Subscription Retailer, Part 2

Rangeme

Today, thousands of subscription box services exist, but perhaps some of the most well-known companies are FabFitFun , Birchbox , Hello Fresh, BarkBox, and Dollar Shave Club. Subscription box categories that usually meet these criteria include food and beverage, arts and culture, fashion and beauty, health and fitness, and pet supply.