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For the pandemic-hit fashion industry, the future is digital

Inside Retail

New customers are a major growth engine for retailers, but many merchants view first-time online shoppers as high-risk due to their unfamiliar behaviour and lack of purchase history. Our data already shows that across the e-commerce landscape, up to 70 per cent of orders that are declined by merchants are made by legitimate customers.

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

Clover - Retail

Dropshipping is a type of supply chain management in which a retailer does NOT keep the product it sells in stock. 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.

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Opinion: The clock is TikToking for supply chains

Inside Retail

Following in the footsteps of Instagram, which launched its shop in 2020, TikTok has entered the competitive space with its new shop function, enabling merchants, brands and creators to showcase and sell products directly to over 1 billion users through in-feed videos, LIVEs, and the ‘product showcase’ tab. Higher customer expectations .

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How Tmall Global is overcoming the challenges of China’s zero-Covid policy

Inside Retail

When it comes to innovation, Shan said that Tmall Global has a three-pronged approach, namely focusing on general digital commerce infrastructure, customer perspectives and merchant brand experiences. Digitising every aspect of the merchant operations is also key. We recognise the need to help our merchants.

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The Ultimate Wholesale Fashion Clothing Suppliers List: Take Your Retail Business to the next level!

I Love Fashion

Considering the process of wholesale clothing can be divided into 3 categories. Those are- Merchant Wholesalers Brokers or Agents Manufacturer’s Sales and Distribution Let’s have an overview of them. Merchant Wholesalers Merchant wholesalers are also called importers, exporters, supply houses, industrial distributors, etc.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 252 – Amazon FBA Roll-ups with Chris Bell CEO of Perch

Retail Geek

3:16] Salesforce Effectiveness pricing products for fitting customer service. You can wait there along and asked me to come and build their North American supply chain which was really amusing but also enticing it was amusing because those Supply chains.