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Just Say No to Fixed-term Contracts
We get that signing a fixed-term contract with a major liquidator or handful of buyers can provide a certain sense of relief: a signed contract virtually guarantees a predictable removal time for all of your excess stock. However, fixed-term contracts…
Online Retail Sales to Top One Trillion Dollars by 2027
Do the math on what that means for returns…. While the retail apocalypse rages on for brick and mortar stores, research shows that online sales are booming: volume is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of…
Holiday Retail Season Kick Off
Goodbye jack o’lanterns and Halloween candy; hello holiday shopping season! November 1 marked the official start of the holidays: that special time of year when retailers hope to incentivize shoppers to spend, spend, spend. Though Thanksgiving weekend is when the…
A B-Stock Halloween Tale
It was a dark and stormy afternoon on October 31. B-Stock’s San Francisco office was wrapping up its work to prepare for that evening’s company Halloween party. Similar activities were taking place in the Boston, Salt Lake City and Florida…
How Retailers Increase Recovery Rates for General Merchandise
As a leader in online marketplace strategy, B-Stock’s service offerings include a tailored approach for each client on how to increase their recovery rates on liquidation inventory. One of our proven auction strategies includes increasing the buyer base; another is…
Reports of Mobile Phone Death Greatly Exaggerated
This recent article in Inc. predicted the death of the mobile phone. The author states that, “…by 2025, voicebots will become so prevalent, so powerful, and so useful in all areas of business and our personal lives that we won’t…
B2B Sales Channel for Returned Appliances Drives Efficiency for Fortune 500 Home Improvement Retailer
Challenge A Fortune 500 home improvement retailer was experiencing an increase in customer-returned appliances. The items, which consisted of name-brand washers, dryers, ranges and refrigerators, among other products, were currently being put back on the floor and sold directly to…
Retail is Dead, Long Live Retail
What is the future of retail? A recent Business of Fashion article made the observation that, “everyone is talking about the need for disruption, innovation and change, yet most stop well short of actually doing anything about it” and that…
Webinar: Tackling Holiday Returns
Holiday returns are on the horizon, learn how to better tackle them by watching our webinar. Watch Now Return rates typically double around the holidays: one in three holiday purchases are returned, equaling $70 billion in merchandise that must be…
Global eCommerce Company Doubles Pricing on Returned and Overstock Inventory
Challenge The European division of a worldwide ecommerce marketplace was selling all of its returned, overstock and other liquidation inventory to a single buyer at an extremely low pre-negotiated price. As pricing dropped to below 10% of retail in key…
In-Store Returns in 30 Seconds
Retailers are continuing to step up their game when it comes to the ease of returning items. Walmart is the latest to announce a bold new initiative (which will no doubt have an impact on reverse logistics). Starting in November,…
Increase recovery without sacrificing velocity
The primary objectives of most liquidation programs should include: maximizing recovery, hitting velocity requirements and protecting the brand. While traditional methods, like selling to a liquidator, may score well on the velocity goal, remarketing to a liquidator will always leave…