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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…
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…
Buying Wayfair Return Pallets: A Comprehensive Buying Guide
Wayfair.com, the largest online retailer of home products and furnishings, offers the largest selection of home furnishings and decor across all styles and budgets. In the third quarter of 2021 alone, Wayfair generated $3.1 billion in net revenue! And with…
How to Buy Return Pallets Directly From Retailers
Companies and retailers far and wide deal with customer returns. But where do they all end up? And what’s the value in a simple store return? Well, there’s a lot you can do when you buy return pallets. Most notably,…
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 Spending Pulse. That is on the low end but still in line with the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) original prediction…
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 over 2020, and retailers are exploring some creative ways to cut those costs. To see retailing at its ecological worst,…
Green Supply Chains Prevail Amid Global Disruptions
Winners of this year’s Green Supply Chain award not only kept up green initiatives throughout a global pandemic and unprecedented disruptions, but also made them a priority. The idea of a sustainable or a “green” supply chain is much different…
High eCommerce Returns Plague Retailers This Season
As we turn our eyes to 2022, online shopping has become more popular than ever before. In fact, worldwide eCommerce has more than doubled in the last 5 years, rising to $4.8 trillion in 2021. Experts predict this figure will…
How Product Returns Management is Running Retailers Dry
As we round out 2021, the bar for retailers is set quite high. It’s now do or die when it comes to developing and keeping customer-friendly policies. One key aspect of this expectation is the returns process. World-class product returns…
RTV Agreements: How Retailers Can Beat the Return to Vendor Process
Whether you’re a brand name manufacturer or a retailer, the products that you sell to your buyers are a significant investment. One common way to ensure peace of mind for brands and stores alike is a Return-to-Vendor (RTV) agreement. Even…
As holiday merchandise gets held up, discount retailers get ready
That record-breaking container ship backlog at U.S. ports is slowing everything down just in time for the holidays. For many in the consumer goods business, it’s a nightmare. For others, it looks like a big opportunity. Think about a tinsel…
Keep Non-sustainable Fabrics Out of Landfills With B-Stock
The invention and rise of plastic has been both a blessing and a curse for the people of the world. This family of resilient materials has enabled us to create useful, affordable, lightweight goods that last. However, these goods, used…