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Choosing a Distribution Model: Drop Shipping vs Traditional Inventory

Retail Bound

One of the topics that consistently comes up in the retail world is the logistics of shipping. From the manufacturers to the distributors, to your retail store – there are many factors and unexpected costs to consider during the shipping process that can be often overlooked. Choose a model that can scale with your growth trajectory.

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The North Face Five-Year Global Expansion Plan Includes 300 New Stores

Retail TouchPoints

The North Face has unveiled a five-year growth plan that will add up to 300 global retail and partner locations, with more than 70 new stores in North America. Stores also will beef up BOPIS and ship-from-store options to support omnichannel consumer journeys. “As New North Face locations in 2022 include stores in Schaumburg, Ill.;

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Why Typical Store Locators Are Falling Off the Map

Rangeme

In other words, we want our cake and we want to eat it too, but we also want to know exactly where we can locally buy the cake (preferably with multiple retailers listed so we can choose our favorite bakery and have a curbside or ship-to-home option available). They weren’t shoppable and didn’t return any data or insights.

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The PR Perils of Inaccurate Sales Tax

Retail TouchPoints

Locations like grocery stores, delicatessens, bakeries and convenience stores can sometimes be classified as an eating establishment and must charge sales tax on certain prepared food items. Class Action attorneys are always looking for retailers over-applying sales tax.

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R.M. Williams’ major digital investment to drive global expansion

Inside Retail

“We’re building a new e-commerce site, we’re implementing marketing cloud and service cloud, we’re implementing a customer data platform (CDP), and on top of that, we’re implementing a new order management system and mobile point of sale platform,” Alexander told Inside Retail.

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Dropshipping: What it is & why it might be smart for your small business

Clover - Retail

Instead, when a customer orders the product, the retailer contacts their manufacturer or wholesale merchant–who keeps inventory of the product on-hand–and has the product shipped directly to the customer. The manufacturer/wholesale merchant is responsible for the shipping process. This is a drop ship. Benefits of dropshipping 1.

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4 Key Steps to Profitable Store-Based Fulfillment

Retail TouchPoints

The dramatic increase in ecommerce volume triggered by the pandemic increased many retailers’ topline revenues, but many are finding it difficult to contain the costs of new types of order fulfillment such as BOPIS, ship-from-store and curbside pickup, according to a report from Incisiv , commissioned by Manhattan Associates Inc.