I only bought this yesterday and I've only briefly started to play around with it. I am a generalist wholesale trader (mostly with commodity raw materials rather than finished goods) but I am looking to get into the consumer retail space and thought this might be interesting for me to try out. From what I see so far, Pietra might help me get into retail.

That said there's a lot of suppliers in Pietra, that can be found on Alibaba and so this is perhaps not the most ideal. But not a showstopper. I would mostly be using this tool for AI designing (which currently I find a bit gimmicky, but I think I can work with it nonetheless) and Sourcing/3PL and not really for their store front. So Pietra may be ok for me.

One major drawback is the pricing that is being proposed by many of the suppliers. It can eat into margins by the time you get your products out to retail and there is a high risk that you won't be profitable or just operating a very low margin business.

So you need to be sufficiently capitalized in order to make proper use of Pietra as you will need to invest heavily into marketing as well.

I will continue to explore this in the days ahead. All the best to the team at Pietra