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(Re)Selling Holiday Returns
It’s December and the Holiday Sales season is in full swing. Savvy retailers are forward-looking to Jan/Feb/March and forming a plan for returned items. That includes dealing with stacked warehouses full of holiday returns and overstock items, including the 5…
Holiday Returns, Supply Chains & Reverse Logistics
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now in the record books and the initial results are in: $6.22 billion was spent online by the end of Black Friday, an increase of 23.6% year over year; Cyber Monday spending rose 19.3%…
The Future of EU Retail
Shopping is increasingly happening online, and for an industry like retail – worth £366 billion last year in the UK – the implications are big. Recently, Wired took a look at the future of retail and what that means for…
It’s November 1—Welcome to Holiday Shopping Season!
November 1 marks the start of the official Holiday Shopping Season (it also marks Sweet Potato Awareness Month and who doesn’t love sweet potato french fries, or sweet potato casserole, or roasted sweet potatoes, or… when is Thanksgiving again?). But…
5 Ways to Tell if your Warehouse is Haunted
It’s Halloween! The traditions associated with it go back to ancient times. Beginning as a Celtic festival, people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. While the idea of warding off ghosts is now a backdrop to…
Our Newest Marketplace: Amazon Liquidation Auctions
B-Stock is pleased to partner with Amazon to launch Amazon Liquidation Auctions. This B2B marketplace will give qualified business buyers direct access to bulk quantities of overstock merchandise including mixed lots of home goods, apparel, books, consumer electronics, groceries and…
Best Practices Retailers can Take for Loss Prevention
Retail warehouses are currently stocked up on inventory in anticipation of the coming 2018 Holiday Shopping Season. However, with inventories at full peak, opportunities for theft become tempting; this is a serious issue in the retail industry. According to the…
New Look. New Feel. New Brand. New Website.
It’s not every day you launch a new corporate site; and for good reason: the amount of work required behind the scenes is insane. Design, messaging, coding, review; updated design, messaging, coding, review; repeat again. But, after 10 years of…
B-Stock at Consumer Returns Luncheon – Nashville, TN – Oct 22 – 24, 2018
B-Stock is headed to Nashville, TN from October 22-24 for the Consumer Returns Conference 2018. While at the conference, B-Stock will be hosting a luncheon for attendees that includes a discussion on how retailers and manufacturers can better prepare for…
Projected 2018 U.S. Halloween Retail Spending
Quick Facts People who celebrate Halloween will spend an average of $86.79 175 million Americans plan to partake in Halloween festivities $9 billion in sales projected for Halloween 2018 45% of survey respondents said they are going to shop at…
B-Stock’s Expertise on Secondary Market Appliances
B-Stock operates the world’s largest network of B2B marketplaces for excess and scratch + dent appliances. Our platform connects major retailers and brands directly to vetted secondary market appliance buyers around the globe. By partnering with us you’ll also have…
eCommerce Expo – September 26-27 – London
Onto the next European show! From September 26-27th, the team is heading to eCommerce Expo in London. As the UK’s largest event on the eCommerce and retail calendar, the show features hundreds of ecommerce specialists, including 250 expert speakers. If…