sourcing

Make Sure You’re Tapping Minority-Owned Brands’ Best Marketing Experts — Their Creators

Retailers increasingly recognize the importance of sourcing products from diverse business owners — that’s the good news. The not-so-good news is that…

Accenture Study: ‘Infrequent’ Ecommerce Shoppers Boosted Online Purchases 343% due to COVID

COVID-19 undoubtedly convinced a large number of ecommerce “virgins” to make their very first online purchase, but it’s likely much of the…

Schnuck Markets and Meijer Make Moves to Increase Diversity of Their Suppliers

Schnuck Markets and Meijer have each partnered with product discovery solution provider Efficient Collaborative Retail Marketing (ECRM) to launch initiatives aimed at…

4 Market Conditions Retailers Must Understand For Successful Sourcing

“Source. Sell. Repeat”. This, in a nutshell, is what e-Commerce — or any commerce for that matter — is all about. For…

Sephora, Ahold USA Adopt Product Discovery Platform

Sephora and Ahold USA, the parent company of supermarkets Stop & Shop, Giant and online grocery service Peapod, have partnered with online…

Keep Brand Equity Consistent Through The New Last Mile

Remember when e-Commerce was seen as a platform that was really only useful for commodities like electronics and books? Nobody was going…

Walmart To Run On 50% Clean Energy By 2025

Already focused on burnishing its public image via better treatment of employees, Walmart is now moving to sustainability and local product sourcing…

Overstock.com Hires Walmart Exec For Demand Fulfillment Role

Vidya Jwala, most recently VP of Merchandising and Operations at Walmart, has been named Senior Vice President of Demand Fulfillment for Overstock.com….

Private Label For Profitability: Six Things To Consider

Costco has its private-label Kirkland brand. Nordstrom has Caslon. And Kohl’s has Sonoma as its billion-dollar in-house brand. Retailers can boost profit…

Jenny Yoo Grabs Real-Time Data With PLM Solution

Awful, garish bridesmaid dresses may be a staple of comedic films, but they’re not so funny in real life. Since 2002, Jenny…

Drop Shipping Enables SHOP.COM To Add 50,000 SKUs, Earn 20% Profit Margins

While SHOP.COM’s marketplace model had traditionally generated single-digit profit margins, the addition of new drop shipping vendors has enabled the retailer to…