independent-retailers
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Intelligent Retail and the art of selling the last one
An island outfitter with 82,000 SKUs. An equestrian shop buried in stock updates. Intelligent Retail has built a business around the unglamorous work that lets independent retailers keep selling.
INFRA (Independent Natural Food Retailers Association)
How a Saint Paul cooperative quietly stitched 400 independent grocers into a buying bloc big enough to bargain with the giants - without asking any of them to give up their name.
Faire
Faire is an online wholesale marketplace that connects independent retailers with the makers and brands that supply them. It replaces the trade-show-and-cold-email model of buying inventory with a personalized, machine-learning-driven storefront, layering on retailer-friendly financing - net 60 payment terms and free returns on first orders - so that mom-and-pop shops can stock their shelves the way big-box chains do, without the cash-flow risk.