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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. With a strong inventory management and fulfillment foundation in place, Build-A-Bear is ready to take its next steps.

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What retailers can learn from Target US about doing their own deliveries

Inside Retail

US department store chain Target is testing a new fulfilment method that promises to speed up the delivery of online orders by using its own delivery drivers from Shipt, a same-day delivery platform the retailer acquired for US$550 million in 2017. The answer is yes, according to Nathan Bush, director of e-commerce strategy at eSuite.

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As the Holidays Approach, it’s Time to Rethink Retail Pricing Methodology…and AI Can Help

Retail TouchPoints

Keeping in mind as well the need to optimize their supply chain fulfillment to meet consumer delivery expectations while managing parcel carrier costs? With AI, where the nuances of pricing and fulfillment between brick-and-mortar and online sales can be analyzed, the answer is yes. Joining antuit.ai

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People Behind CSR at Cisco: Volunteering with AppD Cares fulfills a passion for giving back

Cisco Retail

After Cisco acquired the company in 2017, the organization got a major boost, and Cisco now matches all full-time employees’ charitable monetary donations up to $25,000 annually, and through the Time2Give initiative allows employees paid time off to volunteer. Describe your role as a customer experience leader.

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Best Buy Health Partners with Leading Hospital to Support In-Home Care

Retail TouchPoints

Best Buy Health and Mass General Brigham will develop customized systems and capabilities to enhance the experience for Home Hospital patients, and the hospital also will leverage existing Best Buy Health technology and support services , including: Current Health , Best Buy’s care-at-home platform that connects patients to nurses, paramedics, advanced (..)

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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). Although the trend towards omnichannel fulfillment is not new, the pandemic changed many retailers’ business models almost overnight, and these changes are not going away. What is omnichannel order fulfillment in retail?

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Huboo Expands Product Lineup After Year of Unprecedented Growth

365 Retail

Global fulfilment platform Huboo has expanded its product range by investing in a raft of new services following a significant year of financial, client and commercial growth. Huboo is on track to help facilitate at least £320m of business in 2023 alone. This means that Huboo is now on track to double in size by the end of 2023.