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Small Business, Big Ideas: Amid Historic Disruption in Off-Price, This Family-Owned Overstock Wholesaler is Reinventing the Game

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This story is part of Retail TouchPoints ongoing Small Business, Big Ideas series, focusing on smaller retail brands that have found big success and have even bigger ambitions. As we all now know, Norman was at the cusp of a whole new category of retail, one now dominated by companies such as Dollar Tree and TJ Maxx.

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Alibaba Supply Chain Exec Recommends Futureproofing with AI, Blockchain and Crowdsourcing

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But the supply chain disruptions that it exacerbated have not fallen by the wayside as easily as disposable masks did, with the global movement of goods continuing to be impacted by one challenge after another — from war and terrorist attacks to drought. The COVID-19 pandemic has, for all intents and purposes, ended.

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Three Requirements For Successful Retailers Post-Pandemic

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The global pandemic has accelerated the pace of change for the retail industry at a rate we have never before seen. While we shouldn’t expect online sales to remain at their peak levels when the safety risks of in-person shopping dissipate, merchants cannot hope to weather the storm and return to business as usual.

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Alibaba Seeks to Enable Entrepreneurs with New Sourcing and Financing Tools

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And yet, it’s interesting to note how much Alibaba’s pitch to its buyers mirrors Amazon’s and Walmart’s own pitch to their sellers , one that boils down to “Our company is empowering small businesses.” Somehow, the supply side of the online entrepreneurship machine is looking more and more like the selling side.

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B2B Marketplace Faire Accelerates the Digitization of an Underserved Market: Wholesale

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There are three major players in the retail industry — the brands that make the products, the retailers that sell the products and the consumer who buys from the retailer,” said Max Rhodes, Co-founder and CEO of B2B marketplace Fa i re. These retailers that we serve are incredibly resilient,” said Rhodes.

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Amazon FBA Boosts Sustainability Efforts With Two Circular Commerce Programs

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Amazon has introduced two new Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) programs to help merchants selling on Amazon resell customer-returned or overstocked items. Merchants can then set the price for items based on their condition and manage pricing, advertising and sales using their existing processes. by the end of 2021. UK and France.

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2Checkout vs. Stripe vs. FastSpring: Comparing Payments, Taxes, and Platform Features (+ Pricing)

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If you’re currently using 2Checkout or Stripe to sell digital goods or SaaS but are considering switching — to the other, or to other options such as FastSpring — you may be wondering whether there are substantial differences between the platforms and their services. Payment Gateways , Payment Processing , PSPs, MoRs — What’s the Difference?