James Reinhart
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Resale is growing 10x faster than traditional retail, but the competitive advantage lies not in recognizing the trend but in operational execution—AI optimizes supply chain, but discipline in intake, logistics, and pricing determines whether you capture that growth.
The resale supply bottleneck is on the acquisition side, not demand; focus your go-to-market strategy on solving the friction of getting used inventory out of consumers' closets efficiently, not on convincing them to buy secondhand.
Measure supply chain success in speed—how quickly items move from intake to sale-ready—because compressing those timelines is what unlocks scalability across all downstream operations and unit economics.
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I bet. And yeah, like I had an episode where we talked only about re-commerce and how that's growing, and it's growing even faster than the retail market, so yeah. James It's growing about 10 times faster than traditional retail at this point. And what's interesting is that every time we look at the data around the growth of resale, it appears to be growing even faster.
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