Merchandising

In episode 56 of Total Retail Talks, I interview Mike Edwards, CEO of eBags. Edwards discusses how the online retailer of handbags, luggage, backpacks and more is growing sales through increased product breadth, a mobile-first mentality and unique brand partnerships.

Nordstrom pulled a fashion line by high-end brand Moschino last week that was criticized for making light of drug addiction. The line includes clothes and handbags that look like prescription pill bottles or are covered in images of pills. The items are part of a capsule line the Italian fashion brand introduced during New York’s 2016…

RangeMe is a platform that brings retail buyers and suppliers together to bring the best products to market. RangeMe makes it easy for buyers to quickly find products that are right for them by managing proposals from thousands of suppliers. The company was just honored as the Digital Commerce Startup of the Year at Shop.org's Retail…

Even for well-established online retailers, product presentation that yields inspired customers is a difficult feat to achieve. The

Merchants were once the only critical players in the retail industry. Their ability to drive the business by understanding the customer and predicting customer behavior made them invaluable to their organizations. However, now that “omnichannel” retailing is the new reality, the merchant’s role is rapidly changing. A merchant must now also be able to absorb enhanced analytics and work even more closely with design and marketing applications to understand and adapt to trends that satisfy quickly changing customer tastes.

Stitch Fix, the online personal styling and shopping platform, built its brand from catering to women. Now, it wants to broaden into menswear. For six years, the San Francisco startup has been using fit and style data algorithms alongside customer information to bring a digital personal shopping assistant to women, who, for a $20 per month…

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Just as we reported last week on retailers breaking up with Amazon.com, Lands’ End flips the script. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Lands’ End will make a limited number of items available on Amazon by the end of the month. The omnichannel retailer, known for outdoorsy apparel, will make items available from its…

It’s a nice payday for three unnamed Sports Authority executives. A judge approved the company to pay up to $1.5 million in bonuses to these execs after a bankruptcy liquidation that erased around 14,000 jobs. Sports Authority has an estimated $400 million worth of merchandise to sell in one of the largest retail liquidations ever.…

Nordstrom is a fan of Madewell, and now the upscale department store chain is willing to give J.Crew a chance. Fortune reports starting Sept. 12, J.Crew products will be offered alongside Madewell products at 16 select Nordstom locations. J.Crew joins the likes of Topshop (and possibly Uniqlo) in partnering with Nordstrom. The partnership offers a…