Inside Retail

JANUARY 31, 2023

The traditional wholesale model is broken – and Covid is not to blame. Consider how a traditional wholesale deal works. B2B2C marketplaces: Smarter than wholesale The B2B2C marketplace is a pandemic-proof model, but it’s more than a pandemic workaround. Smarter than wholesale, much more suited to the nuances of e-commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

New capabilities include online and in-store solutions to capture new ad revenue, the ability to bring more of the store online and seamless end-to-end fulfillment solutions. We believe this integration will help us expand our service to more people in our communities.

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Retail Bound

MARCH 20, 2025

But Kickstarter fulfillment is where many projects run into trouble. If you approach your campaign with a well-planned fulfillment strategy, it will be much easier to keep backers happy, ward off unexpected costs, and set the stage for long-term success. People dont pay much attention to fulfillment when it goes well.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 18, 2023

BJ’s Wholesale Club is replacing its legacy order management system with Nextuple OMS Studio, which includes three “Tuples” — each an ordered set of microservices that the retailer can mix and match to create solutions for flexible fulfillment.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 2, 2025

Despite a 6% drop in turnover, which fell to 322m from 343m, the British fashion retailer managed to boost its profits thanks to effective cost-saving measures and favourable foreign exchange ratesamid what it described as “relentless” cost and pricing pressures.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Retailers today find it increasingly challenging to manage demand planning, allocation, replenishment and forecasting due to supply chain disruptions such as labor shortages and rising inflation, said Vince Beacom, President, Global Retail at Blue Yonder in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Items will be fulfilled from Sephora’s 500+ U.S. Additionally, consumers can shop on Sephora’s website for same-day delivery powered by DoorDash Drive, the company’s white label fulfillment platform. BJ’s Wholesale Club selected DoorDash as its grocery delivery partner across 226 stores in March 2022. Items from U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

As the company’s Senior Director and General Manager of Omnichannel, Sharon Gee has been at the center of the massive shifts taking place in ecommerce over the last year and a half. The company sees itself sitting squarely in the center of the pack, catering primarily to mid-size businesses with $1 to $50 million in online revenue.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2020

With a new retail management solution in place, Burton will now be able to: Deploy mobile POS (mPOS) devices in its stores; Provide store associates with improved visibility into customer, product and inventory data ; and Gain a unified view of its e-Commerce and brick-and-mortar operations at both the store and headquarters levels.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Retailers unable to manage returned goods effectively and restore them to perfect conditions for their customers end up either selling these items at a significantly reduced price or disposing of them entirely. Return Management Strategies Leveraging technology can create more efficient processes for purchasing and making returns.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2021

Target’s Store-Based Fulfillment Model Drives Convenience. The secret to Target’s success is the retailer’s expertise at utilizing its stores for fulfillment, whether as a staging ground for last mile delivery or an efficient curbside pickup hub. Foot Locker managed solid 6.9% Target’s physical comparable sales grew 8.9%

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Soon many more Amazon orders will be arriving without that friendly Amazon “over-box,” because as of today SIPP is expanding to all Fulfilled by Amazon (FBA) sellers in the U.S. It allows us to really improve the speed at which we fulfill an item by effectively being able to skip a step in the packing process. and Canada. and Canada.

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Inside Retail

MAY 25, 2025

This approach creates layer upon layer of manual processes, duplicated data and blind spots in inventory, finance and fulfilment. For Ultra Violette, that meant working with Annexa to map and manage integrations across four global warehouses, multiple Shopify sites and a new EDI setup for the US. Want the full story?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 13, 2023

However, with retailers feeling more pressure to streamline omnichannel fulfillment, supply chain visibility has risen to the top of the priority list. While leveraging marketplaces and other wholesale partners can boost sales and name recognition, it also adds a whole extra layer of complexity to inventory management.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 27, 2024

It is now commonplace for CPG brands to offer their wares online as well as through their traditional wholesale channels. A majority of patients surveyed also said they want more digital options for managing their care. To develop the site, Pfizer worked with a network of healthcare organizations.

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Independent Retailer

APRIL 5, 2022

Wholesale Central , the internet’s leading directory of wholesale suppliers, has introduced a brand new supplier category on their website, Amazon FBA Suppliers , to make it easier for retailers nationwide to find wholesalers that offer this service. . Wholesale Central is a product of Sumner Communications, Inc.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 4, 2021

Amazon has introduced two new Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) programs to help merchants selling on Amazon resell customer-returned or overstocked items. FBA Liquidations will provider sellers the option to use Amazon’s existing wholesale liquidation partners and technology to recoup potential losses on returned and overstock inventory.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

“Covid-19 continues to be a major disruption in the first quarter, with Australasian retail stores significantly impacted by lockdowns, and supply chain disruption impacting our ability to fulfil strong wholesale demand,” Kathmandu Group chief executive Michael Daly told investors.

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Independent Retailer

JANUARY 17, 2023

The wholesale product manufacturer creates, packages, and ships the product out to your customer for you, making this a low maintenance business model. In the current web-based world of retail and wholesale, dropshipping makes a lot of sense. Choose Your Wholesale Dropshipping Supplier. What is Dropshipping?

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365 Retail

MAY 23, 2022

Secret Sales has launched a fulfilment service to support brands requiring a UK distribution centre, solving logistics challenges for those wanting to partner with the fashion marketplace but geographical location or technical infrastructure prevent them from fulfilling orders directly to consumers in the UK.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2023

“We are excited to introduce Package Pickup as a seamless and efficient offering for those looking to make returns during the busy post-holiday season and throughout the year,” said Gagan Gupta, Product Manager at DoorDash in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Store-Based Fulfillment Keeps Costs in Check. With a deep history in DTC marketing, Bodkins knew the challenges that came with managing rising cost-per-acquisition (CPA) costs, changing fulfillment expectations and inevitable online returns. Personalized marketing and services powered by a first-party data model.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Kroger and Albertsons will sell 413 stores across 17 states and the District of Columbia, along with eight distribution centers, two offices and five private label brands, to C&S Wholesale Grocers for approximately $1.9 billion in cash. In May 2023 the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union had voted to oppose any mergers. “C&S

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2022

While companies are certainly collecting more and more data, data alone can’t drive this level of hyper-personalization — especially not in a traditional wholesale retail model. He is well versed in fulfillment services spanning physical and digital channels, advocating an omnichannel approach to get products closer to customers.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

JUNE 12, 2025

From managing rapidly changing trends and complex size-color-style matrices to orchestrating seamless omnichannel sales, an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system must be a perfect fit. New collections, seasonal drops, and fleeting trends require agile product lifecycle management (PLM), from design to production to retail.

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Small Biz Trends

JUNE 9, 2025

Key Takeaways Product Sourcing is Essential: Effective sourcing strategies such as wholesale, manufacturing, and dropshipping are crucial for standing out among millions of Amazon sellers. Categories like retail or wholesale can provide a variety of options for stocking your storefront.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2024

Amazon’s vast marketplace, combined with its rapid fulfillment and Prime business, effectively calcified its position. Both Shein and Temu offer cheap Chinese wholesale goods, but they didn’t only win on competitive pricing. Now, we’re witnessing a new wave of ecommerce in the U.S. driven by Chinese competitors.

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Independent Retailer

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Shipping and wholesale prices are plunging and orders are not being placed as often. . Wholesale Imports. A Look at the Wholesale Supply Chain in 2023. We expect wholesale prices to come down to almost variable costs, and we foresee market consolidation.” . Wholesale Imports. The Impact on U.S. back to top.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2023

NetSuite Connector allows Touchland to sync with Amazon as well as other online marketplaces and logistics providers to track inventory across warehouses and automate ecommerce-related accounting tasks, like recording transactions and managing payables.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 27, 2021

They join a growing roster of retailers that are expanding their online reach by allowing third-party brands to sell directly through their ecommerce sites , bypassing traditional wholesale relationships. Private labels offer the advantage of higher margins but come with the logistical burden of manufacturing and fulfillment.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2021

Rollup firms are typically able to buy these Amazon businesses at anywhere from 4X to 6X EBITDA, sometimes less, according to Thomson: “As long as you manage to keep the same efficiency that any one of those accounts had when they were a standalone, you can get a 15X to 25X valuation on your company. How Long Can the Gold Rush Last?

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Retail Bound

JUNE 3, 2025

Introduction to Drop-shipping Drop-shipping is a retail fulfillment method where a store doesn’t keep the products it sells in stock. Instead, when a retailer sells a product, it purchases the item from a third partyusually a wholesaler or manufacturerwho then ships it directly to the customer.

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Retail Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Amazon.com introduced Amazon Warehouse & Distribution (AWD), which enables third-party sellers to send their bulk inventory to one of its facilities for distribution to wholesale customers or brick-and-mortar stores. The service is billed on a pay-as-you-go basis.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 26, 2022

These could be online retailers that have their own Shopify stores, wholesalers that stock in a certain set of stores or even interior decorators and home stagers,” explained Pany. Qalara does that through a managed marketplace (where Qalara itself manages shipping and logistics as opposed to a third-party marketplace).

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

APRIL 10, 2024

In the dynamic world of wholesale business, managing operations efficiently is paramount for success. This is where Wholesale Management Software emerges as a game-changer, offering streamlined solutions to enhance productivity and profitability. What is Wholesale Management Software?

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 9, 2022

A self-fulfilling crisis. Fear of shortages become a self-fulfilling prophecy. The pandemic has exposed the brittleness of just-in-time supply-chain management, which over decades honed the amount of stock held by manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers to a minimum. Supermarket restrictions.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 4, 2024

REI and Trex have worked together since 2020 to divert plastic film waste from the retailer’s stores and fulfillment centers, using it to make Trex’s eco-friendly composite decking. Since 2011, Poshmark shoppers have kept over 300 million items in circulation and out of landfills.

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