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POS integration: how someone else's goods run through your existing till
“We already have a till system” is the most common objection - and the easiest to answer. There are two routes, and one of them does not touch your systems at all.
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The questions retailers really ask
Paul Kirchbichler and Mattis Klöpper in the fashionconsult web meeting - an hour on the marketplace model, hard numbers from the freenet project and an open Q&A with fashion retailers.
fashionconsult
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freenet: new assortment, existing till
How freenet added an extra assortment to its shops - with no integration work of its own.
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Both founders at Trendforum Retail 2026
Paul Kirchbichler and Mattis Klöpper speak in Frankfurt at the end of September - about space, assortment and who carries the risk.
Trendforum Retail
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The store where Spreat started
A neighborhood store in Düsseldorf-Unterbilk, 33 producers on the shop floor - and the question of why this does not work everywhere.
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Assortment for concept stores: the selection is the product, the capital is the limit
A concept store lives on showing brands you find nowhere else. Those are exactly the brands that hurt most to buy.
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Stocktaking when the goods are not yours
Third-party goods stand in your shop but do not appear in your stock. What you still have to count, what you do not - and why the metrics look different afterwards.
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Assortment for bike shops: the capital sits in the bikes, the margin hangs on the accessories
A bike ties up four figures and stands still all winter. The accessories beside it decide the month - and they are the part you do not have to buy.
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How a purchase in a store legally lands with the brand
The customer picks up the product, pays at the till, gets her receipt. Nothing changes for her. What does change happens in the same moment, behind it.
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Assortment for furniture stores: a lot of space, very little turnover
A sofa stands for months before anyone buys it. The accessories around it turn in weeks - and they are the part nobody has to pre-finance.
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What a bad buy really costs
The purchase price is the smaller part. Add tied-up capital, floor space, the markdown - and the one nobody writes down: the buy you did not make instead.
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Mirakl Summit 2026
On 16 April the marketplace industry met in Munich. A day about assortments the retailer does not own - standard online for twenty years, rare on the shop floor.
Mirakl
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Five questions at BANKINGCLUB
Why commission instead of retail margin is also a financing question - Mattis Klöpper in the Fintech-World section.
BANKINGCLUB
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Assortment for bookshops: books can go back, everything else cannot
The non-book range carries a growing share of the margin - and it is exactly the part a bookshop buys outright. Why that is the real calculation.
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- Company
Boost your Business 2026
Five stages, more than fifty talks, a building full of small businesses. Exactly the room our model was built for.
Hamburg Chamber of Commerce
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What fits on a trade fair stand
A shelf, a tablet, a card reader - that was all there was at EuroShop. A store does not need more either.
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What could sit next to your own eggs in the farm shop
A farm shop has what town centers fight for: people who come because of where things are from. And an assortment that ends where the farm ends.
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FinTraWorld 2026: winner of the Payment track
Two days at MOTORWORLD Cologne, a two-stage pitch competition - and an award for the way money flows at Spreat.
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How many stores does a meaningful test need?
One shop tells you nothing about your market, only about one shop. How to set up a physical test so that a decision is possible at the end.
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A store for over 30 days where a space stood empty
How the town of Rhede turned an empty space in the town center into Christmas trade - with eight brands from the region and without a single euro spent on stock.
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Assortment for garden centres: the space stays, the season goes
From November to February the same space stands there that makes the turnover in May. What sits on it in those months decides a quarter of the year.
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From bricks-and-mortar store to marketplace
Mattis Klöpper on the “handelkompetent” podcast by the Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Handel - on marketplace logic on real retail space.
Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Handel
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The math of a small store
Every euro tied up in goods is a euro that is not in the bank. Why small stores still need a bigger assortment - and how the two fit together.
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- Company
HubDay 2025
Paul Kirchbichler at HubDay on the point where a store stops owning the goods it sells.
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Calculating stock turnover: what the figure says about your shop
How often does your stock turn in a year? The formula takes two minutes. It gets interesting at the question of why your figure looks the way it does.
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PropTech Germany Award 2025
Eleven categories, three nominees each. In Tenants and Users in Focus, Spreat was one of the final three - next to two providers from the property industry.
blackprint, REAL Pitches
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Assortment for bakeries and cafés: the shelf beside the counter
Fresh goods sell the same day or not at all. That is exactly why what keeps beside them is interesting - and exactly where the limit sits.
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What a square metre of retail space has to earn
Rent, service charges, staff, divided by the floor area: that gives you a figure per square metre. How to work it out - and why it settles nothing on its own.
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Co-op advertising, payment terms, minimum orders: what retail actually asks for
The terms in a listing conversation sound like detail and are the real calculation. What each item means - and what they add up to.
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Consignment stock in retail: who owns the goods and who pays for them
Consignment stock sits in the store but belongs to the supplier until it sells. Payment follows the sale. What that means for assortment, capital and bookkeeping.
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K5 Commerce Award 2025 for Spreat
Awarded in the Omnichannel Solution category - handed out at the K5 Future Retail Conference in Berlin.
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Consignment, commission, shop-in-shop, marketplace: which is which?
Four terms for four different things that get mixed up constantly. The difference hangs on two questions: who owns the goods, and in whose name are they sold?
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The four routes a brand takes into retail - and what each one costs
Listing, wholesale, your own space, marketplace. Four routes into a shop that differ less in effort than in the question of who pays first.
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Tied-up capital in retail: why every euro in stock is missing from the bank
Bought stock is paid-for money that has not earned anything yet. How to work out your tied-up capital, what it costs you over a year, and which levers exist.
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- Product
What it costs to be in someone else's store
The classic route onto the shop floor starts with a conversation in which someone is asked to take a risk. There is a second route - and it adds up differently.
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- Company
RTIH Innovation Awards 2024
Ten startups made the shortlist for Startup of the Year at the British RTIH Innovation Awards - Spreat was one of them.
Retail Technology Innovation Hub
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Newcomer Battle at RETAIL NXT 2024
Five minutes on the main stage, the audience votes by app - and Spreat walks off as the most innovative retail startup.
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digitalPIONEER 2023
Five companies from the Aachen region were honored at digitalSUMMIT - Spreat was one of them.
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