Retail & Multi-Channel Supply · Canada-Wide
One pool of stock serving your shops, your website and your marketplace listings, with the volume swings of a retail year absorbed rather than survived, run alongside the same B2B distribution network as our wholesale logistics clients.
One Stock Pool
stores, web and marketplaces from the same shelf
All Channels
Stores, ecommerce and marketplaces
Peak Ready
Capacity planned before the season
Store Level
Allocation down to individual shops
Two Way
Outbound and store returns
Why Retail Is Its Own Problem
Most sectors treat a delivery date as a target. Retail treats it as a wall. A promotion has a start date printed in a flyer weeks in advance. A season lands when the floor plan says it lands. A product launch has a marketing spend behind it that does not pause because stock is in transit. Miss any of those and the product is not late in the ordinary sense, it has missed its window, and a summer range that arrives in August sells at a discount that erases the margin, not unlike the narrow shelf-life windows we manage across our reliable cold chain logistics work. This is why retail logistics is judged on predictability more than speed, and why the busiest eight weeks of the year decide how the other forty-four are remembered.
Selling Everywhere At Once
A retailer selling through shops, a website and a marketplace has one genuine problem underneath all three: the same physical unit cannot be promised twice. Businesses that split stock between channels end up with the worst of both, holding a size that is sold out online while three sit unsold in a back room. Holding one pool and allocating from it means a unit is available to whichever channel sells it first, and the count drops everywhere at once, the same single-pool discipline behind our cold logistics solutions. It also changes what happens at peak, because a channel that surges can draw on everything rather than only on the share someone allocated it in September. The practical requirement is that stock levels update across every channel fast enough that two customers cannot buy the same last item.
How We Help
Getting stock to your shops, and getting orders to your customers.
Store Supply & Replenishment
Allocation and delivery into your own stores, franchise locations and retail partners.
Ecommerce & Multi-Channel Fulfilment
Orders picked and shipped to customers, from the same stock that supplies your shops.
Where Your Stock Goes
Six routes to a customer, served from one operation.
Your Own Stores
Franchise & Concession Locations
Department Store Concessions
Retail Distribution Centres
Your Ecommerce Site
Online Marketplaces
Supplying retail distribution centres is the one on this list with rules attached. Large retailers publish detailed requirements covering labelling, pallet construction, advance notice and booked delivery slots, and missing any of them can mean a penalty charge deducted from your invoice, a standard just as strict for perishable freight moved through our refrigerated transportation and temperature-controlled shipping solutions. We cover how that works in detail on our distribution logistics page, since it applies well beyond retail. The short version is that we build shipments to each customer’s published requirements so the delivery is accepted first time.
The Retail Year
Retail volume is not a number, it is a shape. Capacity is planned around your peak weeks before they arrive rather than reacted to during them.
Stock for a dated promotion is scheduled backwards from the start date, with slack built in rather than assumed.
Picking down to individual shops, so each location receives what its sales actually justify.
Stock packed so it can go from box to shelf without staff repacking it, which is where store labour quietly disappears.
Customers return online orders and stores return unsold stock. Both need checking and putting back into sellable inventory.
Remaining stock consolidated, stored or moved to clearance channels rather than occupying prime space into the next season.
Pricing
Priced around how much you hold, how many places it goes and how sharp your peak is.
Space held across the year, including seasonal peaks
Store deliveries, single orders or both
How many stores and channels you supply
Customer and store returns needing processing
Tell us your channels and what your busiest weeks look like. We will price the whole year rather than just the quiet part of it.
Testimonials
“November used to be the month we all dreaded. We hired temporary staff who needed training right when we had least time to train them. Last year we did more than double our normal volume and hired nobody.”
Retail Operations Director
Fashion Retailer, Toronto
“We were holding stock separately for shops and for the website, which meant we were sold out online while the same size sat in a stockroom. Running one pool has cut how much stock we carry overall and we still sell more.”
Head Of Ecommerce
Homeware Retailer, Burlington
Before Your Next Season
Yes, and that is usually the main reason retailers move. One pool means a unit goes to whichever channel sells it first, rather than sitting unsold in a stock allocation nobody revisited.
Capacity is planned before the season based on your forecast, so the extra volume is absorbed by an operation already built for it rather than by staff recruited in a hurry.
Yes. Orders are picked and packed by store, so each location receives its own allocation rather than a bulk delivery someone has to break down.
Yes. Shelf-ready and floor-ready packing means store staff spend their time selling rather than unpacking and repacking.
Both. Unsold stock coming back from shops and returns from online customers are checked, graded and put back into sellable inventory where condition allows.
Yes. Orders flow in automatically and stock levels update across channels, which is what stops the same last item being sold twice.
It can be consolidated into cheaper storage, held for the following year, or routed to clearance channels. The decision is yours and we will tell you what each option costs.
Yes, built to each retailer's published delivery requirements so shipments are accepted rather than penalised.
One stock pool, every channel served and peak planned rather than survived. Get a quote in one business day.
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