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DoorDash Debuts Package Pickup Service to Streamline Returns

Retail TouchPoints

Consumers can attach prepaid shipping labels to their returns or send a shipping QR code directly to their “Dasher” via the DoorDash app. Dashers will send confirmation photos to consumers when they drop off the items at the designated store. “We retailers in 2022, $816 billion , or 16.5% , was returned.

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Supply Chain Volume & Wholesale Prices Dropping Rapidly

Independent Retailer

After the pandemic-driven surge in consumer demand that triggered a frenzy of shipping activity and skyrocketing prices, logistics and transportation companies are signaling a fast slowdown. Shipping and wholesale prices are plunging and orders are not being placed as often. . Disruptions in the Container Shipping Industry.

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Is it Time for RFID to Shine?

Retail TouchPoints

Adoption also is rising because prices are dropping. billion passive RFID tags to be sold in 2023, up from 33 billion in 2022. Turning RFID Technology into Business Value According to IHL Group research, retailers already using RFID in 2022 saw 83% higher sales growth and 80% higher profits. As a result, IDTechEx expects 39.3

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More Orders from Amazon will Soon be Arriving in their Own Packaging — Here’s Why

Retail TouchPoints

And yet that’s exactly what Amazon is doing with its Ships in Product Packaging (SIPP) program, which, as the name suggests, allows products to ship in their original box or bag without any added Amazon packaging. As a result, in 2022, 11% of packages globally were shipped without Amazon packaging , amounting to millions of deliveries.

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How Qalara is Bringing the ‘Inherently Eco-Friendly’ Products of South Asia to the World

Retail TouchPoints

Enter Qalara, which two years on from its launch features more than 1,000 producers selling over 150,000 ready-to-ship and made-to-order products, primarily in the home and lifestyle category. although the site has shipped goods to customers in more than 50 countries to date. and Canada), the UK, Australia and the U.A.E.,

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LSKD appoints first chief retail officer as part of its “audacious” growth plan

Inside Retail

During her time at Lululemon, which spanned 13 years from 2012 to 2020, Shaughnessy led over 40 stores and oversaw the brand’s national wholesale and community presence in ANZ. Metrics and KPIs The key to LSKD’s rapid growth – the business had a turnover of $100 million in 2022-23 – is its pivot to becoming an e-commerce-led platform in 2018.

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10 Online Businesses for Sale in May

Small Biz Trends

10 Online Businesses for Sale in May 2022. E-commerce and Wholesale Automotive Part & Accessories. Since 2008 this E-commerce and Wholesale Automotive Part & Accessories business has managed to be known for stocking highly desirable and hard-to-source automotive parts and accessories. READ MORE: How to Buy a Business.