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Preparing Your Warehouse Operations for the Holiday Rush

Retail TouchPoints

Taking steps now to prepare your warehouse for the increase in orders and to ensure fulfillment processes are optimized is essential to make your ecommerce peak season a success. Having adequate inventory to ship is job one for any ecommerce business. Everything from shipping materials to labels to printer ink are very important.

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How Build-A-Bear’s Pandemic Shift Created Long-Term Omnichannel Opportunity

Retail TouchPoints

For example, during the pandemic’s peak, Build-A-Bear Workshop successfully evolved its brick-and-mortar business to offer more flexible and efficient fulfillment services so it could capitalize on surging ecommerce demand. Creating Joy Amid Uncertainty.

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DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER SHIFT BOOSTS RETAIL INVESTMENT IN SUPPLY-CHAIN INNOVATION

Retail Minded

While the pandemic and subsequent ecommerce explosion have driven strong demand for true omnichannel supply chain commerce solutions, it has also fuelled a less immediately obvious longer-term move towards direct-to-consumer (D2C) fulfilment too. Take Adidas as an example. Nimble Is the Name of the Game .

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Whole Foods Adds $10 Fee to Amazon Prime Members’ Deliveries

Retail TouchPoints

Amazon acquired Whole Foods in 2017 and introduced a free two-hour delivery option in 2018 as it steadily expanded the grocer’s delivery footprint. However, grocery margins are tight, and retailers are limited in how many costs they can pass along to consumers: prices rose 3.7%

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Convenience and Reliability Trump Speed in Digital Grocery, and Here’s How to Deliver Them

Retail TouchPoints

Reliability is an important aspect of any ecommerce transaction — no one likes shipping delays or out-of-stock messages — but digital grocery is where this consideration becomes truly paramount. Another 61% of consumers do more online grocery shopping now compared to pre-COVID. Avoiding impulse purchases ( 31% ). “I

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4 Critical Steps for Optimizing Omnichannel Order Fulfillment in 2021

Retalon

Omnichannel order fulfillment that drives customer experience (and boosts profits). Consumer expectations have evolved in the digital age, and retailers are now offering a multitude of flexible order delivery methods such as “Buy online, pick up in-store”, “curbside pickup”, “order in store, deliver home” and more.

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What is Direct-to-Consumer and How to Balance D2C with Wholesale

Wiser

Direct-to-consumer strategies have transformed retail, both in the way consumers shop and how brands and retailers manufacture, market, and sell. Importantly, a winning direct-to-consumer business will artfully navigate the relationships between brand, retailer, and consumer. What Does Direct to Consumer Mean?