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Is it the End of Retail as We Know It?
This holiday season so far has seen record-breaking purchases, but a wave of store closures is still underway as digital claims more terrain in shopping. With stores like Payless shuttering 2,300 locations just last year—and Walgreens, H&M, and Charlotte Russe…
Unilever launches a liquidation marketplace
The manufacturer of such brands as Dove soap, Noxzema skin cream and Q-Tips is selling bulk quantities of its products through a new ecommerce portal launched earlier this week. Read the full Digital Commerce 360 article>>
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…