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Melissa Gieringer
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Furniture And Fixtures From Athlete Apartments At 2016 Olympic Games Up For Auction
Buy a piece of Rio 2016! Furniture and fixtures to be used by athletes residing at the Rio Olympic and Paralympic Village are going up for online auction before the Games have even begun. Olympic Sponsor RGS Events, the Official…
Photos and Video: Rio’s Olympic Village
The Olympic Village will accomodate more than 18,000 people. It consists of 31 new apartment buildings – a massive complex created to make the athletes feel comfortable in their spare time. “We plan to treat the athletes like kings and…
How to Reduce Loss for Excess and Returned Merchandise
Consumer behavior is continuing to shift: online spending is rising while brick-and-mortar foot traffic is declining. What’s more, many stores are playing catch-up when it comes to their e-commerce operations or are struggling to compete in a very demanding online…
Buyer Spotlight: Jay Roberts of Real Deal Warehouse
Around 15% of items are returned to or never sold by retailers; this amounts to hundreds of billions of dollars in merchandise that can’t go back on store or virtual shelves and is slated for the secondary market. This is…
What happens when online shoppers return too many items
This is how it starts. You love shopping online. You’re not always super-careful about how many items you return because you believe in the no-hassle returns promise made by the retailer. So you buy that camera to test it out. Some…
Some of My Best Friends Are Brokers
I’ve spent a couple of decades helping companies deal with risk inventory: from designing reverse logistics processes, setting up refurbishing operations and establishing remarketing sales channels. Along the way I have developed long-term relationships with a lot of brokers and…
Industry Opinion: Why independent jewelers need to take more notice of overstock auctions
The jewelry industry is notorious for holding large amounts of overstock of products which can’t be shifted. Here Ben Whitaker director EMEA of B-Stock Solutions considers the importance of web-based B2B auctions when it comes to helping to shift that stock.…
Combating Ecommerce Returns with Technology
The explosive growth of ecommerce sales is bringing a subsequent spike in ecommerce returns. To put it in perspective: Returns are projected to grow at a 15% annual rate, and 30% of online purchases were returned last year, according to…
B-Stock to Exhibit at SCOPE
B-Stock is heading to SCOPE next week, May 1-3, in Schaumburg, IL. SCOPE is the supply chain industry’s leading executive level conference that connects supply chain executives at Fortune 500 organizations with top solution providers to learn about their latest…
Battling the knock-on effects of a warmer winter
The winter of 2015 was the warmest in 70 years and the mild weather has hit retailers hard, with accountancy firm Deloitte identifying average reductions of 41.8 per cent, the biggest since 2008. [2] What’s more, retailers are dealing with…
Why online retailers have three times the returns of traditional sellers
When the black, $128.95 Vince Camuto summer sandals size 6, with a 2-inch cork heel turned out to be too big, Sherri Theodore decided to return them to Nordstrom’s online, where she had bought them a few weeks before. “They…
E-commerce returns are on the rise: what’s your reverse logistics plan?
There has been a lot of talk lately in the logistics community about the surge in e-commerce returns: a recent report from CBRE noted that they are growing at a 15-percent annual rate and in 2015 around 30 percent of…