City Hive

05/28/2026

Most retailers still price by gut feel.

City Hive merchants don't have to.

Inventory Insights and Market Intelligence are now live for every retailer on the platform. One view inside the dashboard, showing:

- What's selling and what's slipping
- When to reorder, based on real sales velocity
- How each item is priced against the local market
- Total revenue, profit, and inventory value at the item level

The smartest retailers choose City Hive.

05/22/2026

Can a winery sell DTC through retailers?

It's one of the most common questions in winery DTC right now, and one most operators are still navigating without a clear playbook. The three-tier system, state-by-state shipping rules, and fulfillment models all factor into what's actually possible.

We took a deep dive into the question, including the compliance picture and the model wineries are starting to adopt:

Pages, Pages, Can A Winery Sell Dtc Through Retailers - Get online and start marketing your business in less than seven days with the best e-commerce platform for the three-tiered alcohol industry.

05/21/2026

Happy Shavuot to everyone celebrating! 🌾

Wishing our customers, partners, and vendors a meaningful holiday surrounded by the people who matter most.

Chag Sameach!

05/14/2026

Most alcohol suppliers are spending more on DTC than ever and still can't tell you what's working.

We laid out the full playbook on building a DTC alcohol strategy that actually converts: storefront, fulfillment, store locator, and attribution.

The new Black Irish digital flagship, built as part of the Royal Wine Corp. rollout, shows this playbook in motion. Local availability, delivery speed, and pricing surface in the first few seconds.

Read the full playbook here: https://hubs.la/Q04gmx700

05/13/2026

World Cocktail Day is really a celebration of everything that has to go right before the drink hits the glass.

The distillery. The distributor. The retailer who stocked the right bottle. The bartender who knew what to do with it.

Cheers to the industry behind the glass. 🥂

05/05/2026

¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo!

A great celebration is built around culture, community, and sharing a round of margaritas with the people who matter most.

Today, we're raising a glass to our partners across the beverage industry who help bring tequila, mezcal, and Mexican craft brews to shelves and shakers everywhere. Wishing the people powering this industry a festive, flavorful, and fiesta-filled holiday.

¡Salud! 🎉

04/29/2026

Same product page. Two completely different outcomes.

The Jeunesse PDP used to work like most supplier product pages do. Tasting notes, pairing ideas, a "Shop Now" button that opened a list of stores and ended the conversation.

Rebuilt as part of the Royal Wine Corp rollout, it does something different now. The brand content stays. Underneath it, the page becomes a live point of sale: price, cart, 1-hour delivery, three licensed retailers nearby with real-time inventory, and a fulfilling retailer named on the order.

A buyer who's ready to purchase no longer has to leave the page to do it. See how we're building this for the world-class brands across the Royal Wine Corp portfolio: https://hubs.la/Q04dXfb40

04/23/2026

Compliance in wholesale alcohol comes down to one thing: can you trace every dollar back to the right license, invoice, and product?

Most payment systems in wholesale alcohol were not built for that level of precision. They process payments. They don't structure them.

City Hive's embedded B2B payment infrastructure was built to close that gap. Every dollar is tied to a specific license, invoice, and compliance record, reconciled automatically and in real time. No batch files. No manual matching.

We published a full breakdown of why this matters and how it works at scale.

Read more: https://hubs.la/Q04d7d-z0

04/17/2026

Most supplier DTC sites treat brand and commerce as a tradeoff. Vera Wang Wines doesn't.

As part of the Royal Wine Corp rollout, the new Vera Wang Wines site is built on the same City Hive infrastructure powering the rest of the portfolio. When a buyer lands on the homepage, they get the full brand experience. When they click "Locator/Buy," they hit a live transactional layer with real-time inventory from licensed retailers near them.

The brand doesn't compromise to sell. The commerce doesn't slow down to look good.

This is the model replacing traditional DTC alcohol, and we broke down exactly why in our latest piece: https://hubs.la/Q04cwsdl0

04/09/2026

"One of the biggest ways City Hive saves us time and drives revenue is through its integrations with major third-party delivery partners. It turns the City Hive dashboard into a true one-stop shop." — Michael Salome, Twin Liquors

Twin Liquors operates 100+ locations across Texas. See how they partnered with City Hive to drive 128% more digital revenue and 218% more order volume across their entire footprint.

Read the full story: https://hubs.la/Q04bfMlD0