All Articles from Editorial Team

Will it be a merry Christmas for UK retailers?
Will it be a merry Christmas for UK retailers?

Sustainability and Brexit are some of the key focuses for UK retailers leading up to the festive season this year, according to EMEA director for B2B online auction platform B-Stock Ben Whitaker. Whitaker says compared with 2018, 2019 is looking…

Dec 09 2019 · 1 min read

Bigger Buys, Bigger Returns, Bigger Challenges for Furniture E-Commerce
Bigger Buys, Bigger Returns, Bigger Challenges for Furniture E-Commerce

As buyers become more comfortable with online shopping, the medium keeps expanding to more and more options. Need a computer? Click. A new phone? Click. New clothes and shoes? Click and click. But the online market is no longer limited…

Dec 06 2019 · 3 min read

Main Course of Mobile Shopping With a Side of Turkey
Main Course of Mobile Shopping With a Side of Turkey

Thanksgiving weekend has passed, and turkeys weren’t the only things that came in hot. The overconsumption of food and products we may or may not have needed is behind us, and as another frenzy of food and shopping comes to…

Dec 04 2019 · 2 min read

Introducing Our Newest Marketplace: Unilever Liquidation Auctions
Introducing Our Newest Marketplace: Unilever Liquidation Auctions

B-Stock is pleased to announce today the launch of Unilever Liquidation Auctions – the official liquidation channel of AXE, Dove, TRESemmé, Suave, Caress, Degree, Nexxus, Noxzema, Pond’s, Clear, Vaseline, TIGI, Q-Tips, Simple, St. Ives, and Schmidt’s – with more brands…

Dec 03 2019 · 2 min read

Returnly announces instant exchanges for Shopify Plus
Returnly announces instant exchanges for Shopify Plus

Returnly last week launched Instant Gift Exchange for Shopify Plus. The program allows gift recipients to select an alternative gift before returning their original gift, according to a company press release. The holiday season is a notorious one for returns: business-to-business marketplace B-Stock reported…

Dec 02 2019 · 1 min read

Rethinking Returns As A Vital Touchpoint In The Customer Journey
Rethinking Returns As A Vital Touchpoint In The Customer Journey

Ecommerce continues to introduce new shopping activities and more complex overall customer journeys, including shopper interactions that cross multiple retail channels. To thrive in this paradigm, we need to consider returns in the same way that we now see abandoned…

Nov 27 2019 · 1 min read

How to Recover from  Returns this Holiday Season
How to Recover from Returns this Holiday Season

This week marks the official kickoff of the holiday season as Thanksgiving gives way to another marathon of deals and shopping. Between Thursday and Monday, an estimated 165.3 million people are planning to shop this week, with some 114.6 million…

Nov 27 2019 · 2 min read

Before You Black Friday: The Top Five Gift Flops of 2019
Before You Black Friday: The Top Five Gift Flops of 2019

With Black Friday and the endless stream of seemingly good bargains just days away, we’d like to arm you with our “buyer beware” guide before you go hunting for those post-Turkey Day deals. We’ve scoured through piles of returned presents…

Nov 27 2019 · 2 min read

Sustainable Secondhand Christmas Is Around The Corner, Says B-Stock Report
Sustainable Secondhand Christmas Is Around The Corner, Says B-Stock Report

According to the world’s largest online B2B platform for returned and excess consumer items, B-Stock Solutions, the secondhand apparel market is growing 21 times faster than the primary market, making secondhand gifts a likely trend this Christmas season. Known to be one of…

Nov 25 2019 · 1 min read

You’ve been forewarned, 2019 gift flops
You’ve been forewarned, 2019 gift flops

The retail return experts at B-Stock scoured through piles of returned presents and data from top retailers (Amazon, Target, Macy’s, Nordstrom, Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe’s and others) to see what people returned or what just didn’t sell well in stores.…

Nov 25 2019 · 1 min read

For Retailers Looking To Score Big This Holiday Shopping Season, Brand Loyalty Is Key
For Retailers Looking To Score Big This Holiday Shopping Season, Brand Loyalty Is Key

Forty-one percent of Americans are more likely to buy from brands that they love when shopping for gifts during the holiday season, according to Yotpo’s annual brand loyalty survey. And, the majority of consumers consider themselves more brand loyal now…

Nov 25 2019 · 3 min read

National Returns Day is Coming…How Does Your Return Policy Stack Up?
National Returns Day is Coming…How Does Your Return Policy Stack Up?

After the rush of holiday shopping and the opening of gifts… come the returns. UPS has named January 2, 2020, National Returns Day for the anticipated record-breaking 1.9 million packages to hit their network.  Customers send back purchases for a…

Nov 21 2019 · 4 min read