蘑菇AV

Get products back on store shelves at wholesale partners. Improve the in-store experience at Nike stores. Experiment with different store formats and sizes. Speed up time to market for new products. "When you go to a running store, they don't have Nike," Stambor said.

If you are only using the AI in your wholesale channels, then you're not going to get that direct to consumer sort of traffic. If you could have your own agent, then that would be the coolest, right, that understood you. I think Google's tried to do that a few times in different iterations. Marcus Johnson (14:43):. Jacob, I want to ask you about that real quick.

Half of retail executives expect consumers to put price before loyalty in 2024, and 64% anticipate that shoppers will purchase fewer goods, according to Deloitte鈥檚 2023 Global Retail, Wholesale, and Distribution Executive Survey.

Wholesale food inflation and labor shortages have increased operating costs for restaurants, causing many to raise menu prices. Meanwhile, consumers are contending with economic pressures and dining out less. Restaurants are investing in back-end technology to improve the customer experience, both digital and in-store.

During his first term, Trump finalized a rule requiring drug companies to reveal the wholesale price for their medications in TV ads if they were over $35/month. A federal judge blocked the rule from ever going into effect. Trump didn鈥檛 give an opinion on pharma ads during this campaign.

Est茅e Lauder鈥檚 North America net sales decreased by 1% YoY due to a combination of weak wholesale demand for its M.A.C., Tom Ford, and Too Faced brands, a highly competitive environment, and moderating prestige beauty demand.

The news: US beauty demand is weakening, Coty warned, as retailers cut back on wholesale orders in the face of uncertain demand. That drove the CoverGirl manufacturer to miss growth expectations for the quarter ended September 30: Like-for-like sales grew 4% to 5% year over year (YoY), the company said, falling short of the 6% consensus estimate.

It scaled up production of the Samba, and is focusing on the strength of its wholesale business, flying in the face of so many other brands鈥� strategic shift to D2C. 6. CVS. CVS breathed new life into its food and beverage aisle, launching a new private label line called Well Market, focusing on healthy offerings and recyclable packaging.

The biggest barrier to the company鈥檚 growth at the moment is its ability to keep up with demand, from consumers as well as its wholesale partners鈥攚hich bodes well for its ability to keep its momentum going into 2025.

So pulling away from wholesale and reducing just the visibility at key partners like Foot Locker, which really created an opening for these new upstarts like On and Hoka and even Adidas to just take share from Nike. And then the last bit, the last 20%, I would say is just poor leadership.

Santander plans to use Openbank鈥檚 US deposits as a source of funding for its auto loans instead of relying on the wholesale market, per Reuters. Deposits are typically a cheaper source of capital than borrowing from external markets, so as long as Santander鈥檚 operations cost less than it鈥檚 bringing in, Openbank could be a cost-saving venture.

B2B ecommerce growth is outpacing B2B product and electronic sales growth. And ecommerce site sales are taking an increasing share of the market. Macroeconomic conditions, buyers鈥� preferences, and AI use are fueling increased digital transactions, particularly through third-party marketplaces.

CFO Matthew Friend warned that 鈥渋t will take time to expand market share鈥� in a highly competitive wholesale landscape, although he also noted that consumers are so far responding positively to newer franchises like its Sabrina, Kobe, and Alphafly lines.

The brand, which accounts for roughly 5% of Levi鈥檚 revenues, struggled with weak wholesale demand, while efforts to make its assortment more appealing to consumers resulted in too much overlap with Levi鈥檚 own offerings.

Current CEO Michelle Gass, who arrived at Levi Strauss as president in January 2023 (and became CEO in January), told the Financial Times she aims to 鈥渞ewire the entire business鈥� to build a 鈥渂est-in-class, direct-to-consumer retailer鈥� while also maintaining strong relationships with wholesale partners.

Womenswear brand Amir Taghi hosted trunk shows in top clients鈥� homes across the country to land wholesale accounts. Coty-owned skincare brand Philosophy transformed a conference room in its Empire State Building headquarters into a clinic where influencers, customers, and press could meet with the brand鈥檚 scientific advisors and test new products.

Direct-to-consumer models, online marketplaces like Amazon, and traditional, wholesale retail offer opportunities. To compete, retailers should evaluate where they can best position their products, particularly in categories where Amazon is less dominant. Expanding into international markets.

And wholesale stores like Costco are doing really well in pharmacy, and so they really have to rethink what they're for because right now for me, there's a zombie CVS in my neighborhood and it's across the street from the still-standing Walgreens, which I hope doesn't close because I go there if I need something right away that's a few minutes away or downstairs.

Shout out to some BBC research which was great on this, but as you said, studies of the impact of new tariffs that Trump did impose in his first term showed that ultimately, the economic burden was borne by the U.S. consumer, not by the importing firm or by the foreign exporter because they supposedly would choose to lower the cost of their wholesale price or the wholesale price of the goods.

Relationships: Nike needs to repair its wholesale relationships to help it win back share in retailers鈥� stores. Our take: A Nike reset was long overdue and the brand is in a tough spot, which Hill acknowledged in an email to employees, writing: 鈥淭hings haven鈥檛 been easy, and we certainly have taken our fair share of shots.鈥�.

Meanwhile, Faire, an online wholesale marketplace, introduced its first ad solution, sponsored search ads. These 鈥淧romoted Listings鈥� help smaller brands without resources to spend much on on product promotion. 鈥淭he reason we鈥檙e going this path into advertising is to help our brands grow,鈥� Faire鈥檚 chief product officer Ami Vora told Retail Brew. 鈥淲e know that鈥檚 hard when you鈥檙e a small business.鈥�.

That means wholesale partnerships can buoy sales for DNVBs. Wholesale partnerships provide access to customers already interested in the brand, reducing customer acquisition costs. Wholesale partnerships are also a form of brand extension and provide customers with the assortment of goods that they need.