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Melissa Gieringer
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Global Resale Partners with B-Stock Solutions to Launch B2B Marketplace for Pre-Owned Technology Devices
B-Stock Solutions, a technology-enabled service provider powering the largest network of B2B liquidation marketplaces for Fortune 1000 organizations, is pleased to announce the launch of Global Resale’s official B2B liquidation marketplace: Global Resale Liquidation Auctions. This online auction marketplace will…
B-Stock Heads to RILA’s Retail Supply Chain Conference
This week B-Stock will be at RILA’s annual Retail Supply Chain Conference. The show, put on by the Retail Industry Leaders Association, connects people and businesses within the retail supply industry, enabling evolution and innovation. This year is especially exciting,…
Our Newest Marketplace: Global Resale Liquidation Auctions
We are pleased to announce the launch of Global Resale’s B2B liquidation marketplace on B-Stock Sourcing. Global Resale Liquidation Auctions will give buyers access to bulk quantities of previously traded-in, tested and data-wiped technology devices including: cell phones, laptops, desktops,…
Stores Turn to Secondary Market to Manage Returns
Convenience is often cited as the top reason why shoppers head online rather than in store. But for retailers, this shift results in a few inconvenient truths. First, the shift has resulted in plummeting same-store sales in brick-and-mortar locations. Second,…
Why Liquidation is Worth Worrying About
Every company has liquidation inventory: returned, excess, obsolete or damaged merchandise that can’t go back on store shelves. Though most organizations would rather not admit they have a need for it, liquidation is the rule – not the exception –…
The Five Essential Steps to Surviving January Returns
Following the biggest shopping season of the year, January means an influx of returns for retailers of all kinds. To put the scope of this into perspective: sources predicted a 50% spike in the volume of parcels being returned during…
That ugly sweater you returned? It might not go where you think
That unwanted holiday gift you finally sent back last week? It might not end up where you imagined. Rejected sweaters, unwelcome blenders, or ill-fitting pajamas you thought you sent back to Sears or Amazon don’t always return to that store’s…
The Logistics of ‘Take-Back Tuesday’ and Post-Christmas Returns
Coined ‘Take Back Tuesday’, the third of January 2017 was officially the busiest day for online postal returns following the Christmas period. To put it in perspective: post-Christmas, sources predicted a 50% spike in the volume of parcels being returned…
This is where all your returned Christmas gifts end up
The holiday season is over, but unwanted gift return season is in full swing. An estimated 5.8 million items will have been shipped back to retailers in the first week of 2017 alone, according to UPS — up by about…
Redefining Online Auctions with CellWorks Unlimited Liquidation Auctions
Around the world, smartphone consumers by the hundreds of thousands – maybe millions – are returning their devices everyday to take advantage of of buyback and upgrade programs. Meanwhile manufacturers are overproducing devices to facilitate skyrocketing demand. To save money…
Delivery companies see spike in business on ‘National Returns Day’
Now is the time to start taking down the lights from the windows and haul the Christmas tree to the curb, while stealing glances at the sweater from your aunt that you’ve been meaning to send back to the store.…
Here’s what happens to all those unwanted Christmas presents
Welcome to the retail returns season — the much less popular sibling of the holiday retail sales. Every year roughly $260 billion worth of stuff bought at retail is returned, 25 percent of which is returned after Christmas, according to…