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August 26, 2024
Retro electronics benefit from cutting edge hardware
B-Stock's Sean Cleland said a notable trend is Samsung flip and fold devices entering the secondary market, which are desirable and expensive.
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June 12, 2024
Growing Returns Problem Demands Data
By building operations around customers’ expectations and partnering with a reverse logistics expert, a future with a clearer picture of how returns impact business is within reach.
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May 13, 2024
Addressing Excess Inventory With B-Stock Solutions
Excess inventory is a billion-dollar problem. Discover how B-Stock Solutions innovatively tackles this challenge.
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April 5, 2024
Leveraging Recommerce to Strategically Sell Excess Goods
A reverse logistics partner can help an organization make real-time, data-backed decisions on lotting strategies, generate buyer demand and ensure excess and returned inventory is moving in and out of warehouses.
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March 14, 2024
2024 Trend Alert: Expect Changes in Returns Policies and Reverse Logistics Strategies
Retailers are realizing things need to change to improve profitability amid dwindling consumer demand and rising costs.
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February 13, 2024
Reimagining the Fate of Returns With Reverse Logistics Experts
By implementing a more sustainable reverse logistics strategy alongside customized, managed solutions, brands and retailers can conquer their excess stock and make sure they never have to choose between their customers’ loyalty and their bottom line.
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January 10, 2024
Moving Post-Holiday Returns with Warehouse Optimization
A resilient, comprehensive optimization strategy will keep warehouses running smoothly and help to achieve a healthier bottom line—both during the post-holiday months and all year long.
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December 20, 2023
How retailers can capitalise on secondhand gifting in the holiday season
Retail Insight Network interviews ecommerce returns expert and CEO Marcus Shen on the growing trend of consumers looking to buy pre-owned goods for holiday shopping.
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December 7, 2023
3 Trends Upending the Returns-to-Landfill Pipeline This Holiday Shopping Season
Reverse logistics companies help brands cut waste and save money.
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November 3, 2023
The iPhone is obviously superior at one thing. Ask your wallet.
Sorry, Android lovers. Resale values of iPhones are so much higher that it may be financially irresponsible not to buy one.
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September 19, 2023
GUEST COMMENT Overcoming the burden of overstock: How to regain velocity, revenue and operational control
Retailers face significant revenue losses from unsold inventory, with some losing up to £1 million per quarter. Jess Morris of B-Stock outlines strategies for managing overstock through reverse logistics, forecasting technology, and recommerce platforms, balancing financial recovery with sustainability.
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September 12, 2023
The Fast Fashion Fallout: The Circular Economy and the Future of Sustainability in the Fashion Industry
It’s no secret the fashion industry is a top contributor to global textile waste. Every year, millions of tons of textiles are incinerated or placed in landfills where they take hundreds of years to decompose. Fortunately, there is hope as sustainability becomes a priority among young consumers.
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August 24, 2024
Back-to-School or Back-to-Returns: Alexis Ask
Managing editor Alexis Mizell-Pleasant asks industry experts about various topics developing in the supply chain field. The surge in returns that follows back-to-school means retailers and manufacturers must strategize with sustainability in mind.
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July 7, 2023
Earth911 Podcast: B-Stock's Marcus Shen on Growing the Resale Economy
Recommerce is growing as retailers face storage issues and a surge in returns post-pandemic. B-Stock Solutions, led by CEO Marcus Shen, helps businesses like Walmart and Amazon liquidate excess inventory through auctions or direct sales. With 21% of online purchases returned in 2021, managing returns is key to reducing waste and environmental impact, promoting a circular economy.
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July 3, 2023
Overcoming the challenges of deliveries and returns
Jess Morris, Head European Marketplace Manager at B-Stock, comments on how the retail industry can overcome the challenges of modern-day deliveries and returns to keep customers happy and retailers from losing out.
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July 3, 2023
How retailers’ return policies are changing, according to experts
With an increase in returns, these online retailers continue dominating e-commerce.
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June 14, 2023
How Secondary Market Can Help Tame E-Waste Crisis
By tapping into the secondary market, businesses can ease pressure on overfilled warehouses by selling preowned and excess electronics in a more sustainable way.
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April 13, 2023
Re-commerce as a service is the answer to retailers’ excess inventory woes
No longer is it supply shortages that are taunting retailers, but in fact, it’s their excess inventory. Retailers have been hamstrung by historic inflation rates that have shifted consumer spending […]
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March 27, 2023
The demand for clearance stock: How retailers can make a return on customer returns
What retailers are learning is that inventory that would ordinarily take up warehouse space, or otherwise discarded via landfills, can now be put back into use via B2B online auctions.
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February 27, 2023
The Top 50 Women Leaders of San Francisco for 2023
Emel Meteoglu,Vice President of Product at B-Stock, named one of The Top 50 Women Leaders of San Francisco for 2023.
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January 30, 2023
How mobile operators can boost trade-in revenue
Network trade-ins need to be sold for the best margins Are mobile network operators picking up B2B auctions fast enough?
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June 24, 2022
Retail’s inventory glut means big business for liquidators
While some companies are suffering losses from excess inventory, others are making bank from it.
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February 19, 2022
Inside the $644 billion business of reselling returned items, from electronics to bizarre finds
Inside Liquidity Services’ 130,000-square-foot warehouse in Garland, Texas, the aisles aren’t lined with typical merchandise. Instead, they’re stacked with returns…
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January 13, 2022
Returns often end up in landfills. Here’s how 3 companies are helping them get resold instead.
Holiday shopping was expected to break records in 2021 — and now that all the gifts have been unwrapped, the…
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January 12, 2022
From living rooms to landfills, some holiday shopping returns take a ‘very sad path’
More than half a trillion dollars. That’s the estimated value of all the stuff that U.S. shoppers bought last year…
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January 6, 2022
Podcast: 3 Trends Shaping the New Liquidation Landscape with B-Stock Solutions CEO Howard Rosenberg
With the eBay era in full swing, liquidation was begging for an overhaul. Enter Howard Rosenberg and his company B-Stock…
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January 4, 2022
UPS says it’s processing a record number of returns as 1 in 4 Americans plan to ship stuff back to sellers after the holidays
Holiday shoppers bought an utterly staggering amount of stuff in November and December, and the share of those items bought…
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January 2, 2022
Record-Breaking Holiday Means A Record-Breaking Deluge Of Returns For Retailers
Early results are in and holiday retail sales increased 8.5% year-over-year from November 1 through December 24, according to Mastercard…
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December 27, 2021
Holiday sales boom but many gifts get returned
Two in three shoppers are now planning at least one return after a huge holiday shopping season. Processing returns costs…
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December 17, 2021
Happier returns? Retailers in race to solve holidays’ environmental, logistics nightmare
An estimated $66.7 billion in rejected holiday gifts will make their way back to retailers this year, a 30% increase…
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December 16, 2021
It’s Halloween in December at US ports as delayed shipments finally arrive with seasonal goods
Christmas may be a week away, but US ports are just now receiving containers loaded with goods that were ordered…
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February 8, 2021
Inside the warehouses where dud Amazon orders go to be reborn
As online shopping thrives during the pandemic, so does the market for mystery boxes filled with our unwanted goods
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