All Articles from Will Simon

Taking Your Consumer Electronics Recommerce to the Next Level
Taking Your Consumer Electronics Recommerce to the Next Level

If you’re a business leader in the consumer electronics space, you’re well aware of how important it is to extract every dollar possible from your slow-moving, excess, and returned merchandise. Unfortunately, with warehouses overflowing and electronics constantly falling into obsolescence, …

Jan 05 2023 · 11 min read

Building a Liquidation Strategy: Don’t Count on Large Discounters Alone
Building a Liquidation Strategy: Don’t Count on Large Discounters Alone

Why Your Business Needs to Develop a Diversified Apparel Liquidation Strategy Large discount stores like TJX, Big Lots, Ross, and others have been around for some time now. They’ve become institutions for price conscious consumers. And to their credit, there…

Oct 20 2022 · 6 min read

2022 Holiday Supply Chain Issues: What’s Behind the Persistent Problem
2022 Holiday Supply Chain Issues: What’s Behind the Persistent Problem

As we round out 2022, it’s exhausting to rehash all the ways that the global pandemic has reshaped our lives. In some ways, there does seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel. But for many businesses,…

Sep 15 2022 · 9 min read

The True Cost of Inflation: Effects on Businesses and Consumers
The True Cost of Inflation: Effects on Businesses and Consumers

It’s been a challenging few years for all. From concerns over our health to the weariness of social distancing to the current economic uncertainty,  no one’s been left untouched. And you’ve likely heard ad nauseam about rising inflation—and may be…

Aug 26 2022 · 9 min read

B-Stock & CTIA Certification Set Grading Standards, Energize the Secondary Mobile Market
B-Stock & CTIA Certification Set Grading Standards, Energize the Secondary Mobile Market

Rules and standards are more important to selling trade-in mobile devices on the secondary market than you may think. Here we’ll explore how B-Stock, the world’s leading B2B auction platform, joined an important standardization initiative, and wound up improving sales…

Aug 05 2022 · 6 min read

The Excess Inventory Challenge
The Excess Inventory Challenge

In a 2021 blog post, the online retail platform company Shopify describes e-commerce returns and the excess inventory buildup that they cause as a ‘disease.’ A strong diagnosis. However the numbers do back it up. According to the National Retail…

May 24 2022 · 9 min read

It’s Earth Day! Make Yourself a Sustainable Seller
It’s Earth Day! Make Yourself a Sustainable Seller

Earth Day is a time to reflect on the environmental impact of our daily lives and make positive changes. This can be challenging, particularly for retailers and eCommerce businesses. You may worry that green practices are too costly or waste…

Apr 22 2022 · 6 min read

Apparel Retailers Embrace Circular Economy
Apparel Retailers Embrace Circular Economy

Apparel Retailers Embrace Circular Economy The fashion market is changing and shoppers are embracing the circular economy model. Secondhand, returned, overstocked, or otherwise unsold clothes can be quite fashionable and the success of online operations like ThredUp, Shopify, and other…

Apr 08 2022 · 6 min read

How An Online B2B Marketplace Solution Helps Curb Fashion Supply Chain Waste
How An Online B2B Marketplace Solution Helps Curb Fashion Supply Chain Waste

Over the last decades, our capacity to produce and deliver apparel to consumers has rapidly increased. Unfortunately, so too has the amount of waste in the fashion supply chain. As consumers come around to environmental concerns, major retailers must follow…

Mar 10 2022 · 7 min read

How Fast Fashion Impacts the Secondary Retail Market
How Fast Fashion Impacts the Secondary Retail Market

In the world of fashion and apparel, retailers need to keep the inventory moving. Trends aren’t necessarily annual anymore—or even seasonal. Changes in fashion can now happen weekly, with fast fashion retailers receiving new shipments of clothes every week. Luckily…

Feb 24 2022 · 6 min read

How Top Retailers Leverage Brand Equity on the Secondary Market
How Top Retailers Leverage Brand Equity on the Secondary Market

Are you having trouble accessing excess inventory buyers? Is your current liquidation strategy recovering very little value or dragging down your operational efficiency? In either case, you stand to benefit from moving away from your traditional liquidation solutions and partnering…

Feb 03 2022 · 4 min read

Trying Something New with Proven Methodologies
Trying Something New with Proven Methodologies

Have you been working with excess inventory liquidators to sell your business’s inventory, be it overstock, returns, or otherwise? If so, you likely know how frustrating, slow, and inefficient the process can be. Despite these problems, when the time comes…

Jan 20 2022 · 4 min read