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# Ep. 25: The New Retail Marketplace: How Discovery, Relationships and Technology Are Reinventing the Buying Experience
- URL: https://www.dbbnwa.com/the-new-retail-marketplace-how-discovery-relationships-and-technology-are-reinventing-the-buying-experience/
- Published: 2026-10-05T20:00:10.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-05T20:01:11.000Z
- Description: Stephanie Beringhele of ASD Market Week explains why physical marketplaces still beat digital sourcing for validating suppliers, breaking down how buyers combine tech matching with in person vetting to protect margins.
- Author: Nathan Sellars
- Tags: Digital Front Door, Podcasts, Videos, Supply Chain, Merchandising, Category Analysis, #center-lockout

The volume of digital sourcing data is burying buyers in noise. Stephanie Beringhele, VP of Growth and Partnerships at ASD Market Week, breaks down why physical marketplaces still dominate product curation.

Digital directories cannot validate supplier reliability or build the face-to-face trust required when supply chains break down. Buyers are overwhelmed by infinite online options, forcing a return to offline marketplaces to filter out unverified vendors. Stephanie explains how merchants are fighting this fatigue by combining tech-driven matching with in-person vetting.1

We also cover how independent operators are defending margins using international private label relationships without committing to massive container loads.

For retail merchants struggling to source profitable inventory, this conversation provides a practical framework to validate new suppliers and identify cross-category margin builders. Subscribe and share this episode with a sourcing director. What unexpected product category has generated the highest margins for your storefront this year?