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Why Retailer Market Fit Is Important For A Product Startup

Retail Bound

Today’s modern retail ecosystem is dynamic, complex, and involves multiple channels like large-chain, specialty and regional stores, catalog retailers, ecommerce sites, TV shopping networks, incentive, and reward marketing channels, and B2B verticals like hospitality, travel, and more.

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Retail Statistics You Should Know

Small Biz Trends

We have assembled all the numbers you need, including store operations, shopper behaviors, how retailers market their businesses, and much more. If you own a retail store or are considering shop ideas for a new one, take a look at the stats below. Retail Statistics: The Big Picture. Physical Stores.

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The lowdown on Central Group – reported new owner of Selfridges

Inside Retail

billion, it has subsidiaries in multiple industries, including retail. Central Group is one of the ‘big three’ Thai retailers and shopping centre developers/operators. Central’s superregional malls and department stores are ubiquitous in Thailand. What does it say about the future of department stores?

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How Korea’s big 3 department stores are killing it right now

Inside Retail

And despite the importance of hypermarkets and the rapid growth of e-commerce in tech-crazy Korea, department stores are an important and venerable part of the country’s retail tradition. If you like style and tradition, then these are your shopping destinations. Specialty stores have suffered a decline in market share, from 29.6

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Off-Price Retail: A Double-Edged Tool For Brands With Excess Inventory Needs

Retail TouchPoints

While the latter may be true, excess inventory also has a silver lining of hidden pathways to optimizing excess inventory that lead straight to your bottom line through distribution in the off-price retail market. In turn, brands should view their affiliation with off-price retailers as opportunistic partnerships.

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Walmart depart Japan – What Went Wrong?

Nelson Blackley

is selling most of Japanese retailer Seiyu to KKR & Co. giant retreats from its two-decade attempt to crack Japan’s retail market. Walmart Inc. and Rakuten Inc. in a deal that values the supermarket chain at 172.5 billion yen ($1.6 billion), as the U.S.

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MUST Wine Loft Discovers Charcuterie Must-Haves By Ordering On RangeMe

Rangeme

After working in the hospitality industry for more than 20 years and gaining years of buying experience, Arkwright decided it was finally time to open her own specialty store and cafe. Whether our customers are dining in or shopping for a dinner party, they trust our advice and opinions on products.