Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 4, 2023

To better serve a growing legion of West Coast customers, Tapestry , parent company of brands including Coach and Kate Spade , opened its 788,000-square-foot North Las Vegas Fulfillment Center in November. Tapestry already operates a fulfillment center serving the East Coast located in Jacksonville, Fla. Designed to distribute 22.2

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 5, 2023

Amazon is rolling out new AI-powered technology across its warehouses to detect damaged goods in a bid to decrease the number of damaged items sent to customers and speed up the fulfillment process, The Wall Street Journal reports. MIT Professor Dr. Yossi Sheffi, author of The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The problems with getting products to people quickly and cheaply are well-known: consumers want fast fulfillment, which is costly to provide, but they don’t want to pay high (or really any) shipping fees. Unemployment is at 3.5% Even Amazon , the trendsetter in fast fulfillment, isn’t immune to higher labor costs.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2022

PFS’ RetailConnect aims to enable retailers to fulfill ecommerce orders from brick-and-mortar stores efficiently and without disrupting ongoing store operations. RetailConnect combines an order management platform with lightweight hardware to help increase speed and accuracy.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2024

Zulily Group has engaged the advisory firm Gordon Brothers to sell off more than $85 million of inventory and the assets of its two fulfillment centers following the online retailer’s decision late last year to shut down. Screenshot of the Zulily website from December 2023 highlighting the going-out-of-business sale.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 15, 2021

At Home Group Inc. is deploying a new order management system (OMS) as the home décor retailer seeks to offer a more modern omnichannel customer experience and improve in-store fulfillment.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The NYC-headquartered Fillogic will support the retailer through ecommerce and store-based fulfillment, reverse logistics and returns, forward-staging of inventory and final-mile delivery. The space will allow the retailer to stage inventory, satisfy merchandise pickup and delivery and fulfill store-based and ecommerce orders.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 24, 2022

British retailer Asda is enhancing its end-to-end supply chain and retail operations by partnering with Blue Yonder to improve order management. Asda, which operates 640 stores including supercenters, superstores and supermarkets, also will work with Bringg to upgrade its fulfillment capabilities.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2021

The dramatic increase in ecommerce volume triggered by the pandemic increased many retailers’ topline revenues, but many are finding it difficult to contain the costs of new types of order fulfillment such as BOPIS, ship-from-store and curbside pickup, according to a report from Incisiv , commissioned by Manhattan Associates Inc.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 21, 2024

When UK and Irish discount book, games and toy retailer The Works set out to improve the accuracy and efficiency of its inventory management across its stores it turned to Zebra Technologies to revolutionise its back-end management system. Customers want immediate fulfilment.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Coles Group , which operates a chain of more than 800 supermarkets across Australia, will deploy the Bringg delivery management platform in a bid to make its home delivery operations more efficient. The solution will make it easier for Coles to allocate deliveries to its network of carriers and track deliveries in real time. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Amazon is adding 125,000 new warehouse and transportation jobs as it seeks to staff up the 350 fulfillment centers, sortation centers, regional air hubs and delivery stations it has opened this year, 100 of which will open in September alone. making it the largest job creator in the country at this time.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2023

Smart retailers are realizing that their increasingly complex omnichannel offerings have made strong supply chain management more important than ever. Industry experts gathered at Manhattan Momentum 2023 in Phoenix to discuss their approaches to these various challenges. It manages our BOPIS component.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 13, 2024

Mother’s Day Brings ‘Dramatic Surge’ in Need for Customer Service “Mother’s Day is our Super Bowl; it’s even larger than Valentine’s Day,” said Laura McDonald, Director of Customer Happiness at UrbanStems in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. Now, with Zendesk, they’re hitting it by their second shift.”

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2021

Majid Al Futtaim , the exclusive franchisee of French hypermarket chain Carrefour in the United Arab Emirates, has opened a fully automated micro-fulfillment center (MFC) at the Carrefour store in Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai. Majid Al Futtaim operates 350+ Carrefour locations in 17 countries across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 22, 2022

Amazon is creating a $1 billion venture investment program, the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund (AIIF), with the goal of supporting innovation in customer fulfillment, logistics and the supply chain. We know there are companies out there that share our curiosity and excitement to invent.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A growing retail and ecommerce business can turn an efficient process into a multi-step nightmare with inaccurate purchasing, order fulfillment and returns processes. Hence the undeniable need for robust warehouse management technologies that are future-focused and effortlessly scalable. Sophisticated Automation. System Automation.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Great product diversity, changing consumer demands, and the expansion of e-commerce have turned inventory management into a major pain point for retailers. Poor inventory management results in overstocking and under-stocking, impaired cash flow, and losses from theft and spoilage. Here are some reasons why: 1.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 3, 2022

Walmart will open four next-generation fulfillment centers over the next four years as it seeks to reach 95% of the U.S. fulfillment center to create an environment that is more comfortable for associates, has double the storage capacity and can fulfill twice as many orders per day. population with next-day or two-day shipping.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 18, 2024

Delivery management platform, Scurri , today reported an increase in the total gross merchandising value (GMV) of goods processed through its platform, which totalled over €12 billion in 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2020

BOPIS Fulfillment Options. How retailers fulfill BOPIS is the hot topic. The most common method pre-COVID was in-store pickup at the customer service desk or a designated pickup area. A contactless way to fulfill BOPIS has become a public health necessity virtually overnight. Automated Retail Lockers As A Solution.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This trend has already become evident with curbside pickup, which has become one of the fastest-growing models within fulfillment. With the proper technology and management, any business can quickly and seamlessly adopt this innovative and growing service. But implementation hasn’t been easy on retailers. Guy Bloch is CEO of Bringg.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Traditional fulfilment has been evolving for a long time. Forward-thinking retailers have always been looking for engaging ways to help their businesses stand out via their fulfilment options. As e-commerce continues to make inroads, balancing the challenges and opportunities of online fulfilment remains key.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

As it turned out, the solution already was in motion: Loblaw had partnered with Takeoff Technologies and was in the process of rolling out a robotic Micro Fulfillment Center (MFC) when COVID-19 reached Canada. This is both in terms of our capacity to accept the increased demand for orders, as well as our ability to fulfill these orders.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2022

The pace of technology can sometimes overtake us, however, and many “traditional” ERP and account management systems are not optimised for e-commerce. At an entry-level, all you want to be able to do is sync your orders in, produce labels and then dispatch out. For further information, contact enquiry@eiz.com.au

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

While 2020 saw brick-and-mortar retail businesses buckle under the strain of social distancing and stay-at-home orders, the number of purchases being made online skyrocketed. At the same time, they also realised that managing an e-commerce business comes with its own challenges and requires a different set of tools.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2022

Notably, the highest spending levels came at the beginning and end of the season. In the final weeks leading up to Christmas and post-Christmas, we saw digital sales spike again,” said Rob Garf, VP and GM of Retail at Salesforce in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “ trillion , up from $1.1 trillion in 2020, while U.S. 18 and Dec.

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Wiser

APRIL 16, 2024

Category management in retail has evolved significantly over the past two decades, reflecting broader changes in technology, consumer behavior, and market dynamics. Ten to 20 years ago, category management was primarily focused on optimizing the assortment, shelf placement, and stock levels of products within physical stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Walmart will test combining store/fulfillment center locations at four existing stores, using them as test beds for new technology, digital tools and physical enhancements. The stores will focus on implementing new tools that can help speed up both customer service and order fulfillment. in a statement.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 26, 2024

Thanks to rapid innovations in supply chain management, AI technology and digital marketing, e-commerce is increasingly playing an integral role in the lives of everyday Aussies. Modern fulfilment methods Alternative, or modern-day, fulfilment options are on the rise for retailers, on the basis of cost and convenience.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 7, 2023

Next generation delivery management platform, Scurri , whose retail and brand partners include Vision Direct, Biscuiteers and Natural Baby Shower, today announced two new strategic appointments as it continues to scale growth in the United Kingdom. Additionally, Matthew Hunt joins the Scurri team in the role of Demand Generation Manager.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 10, 2024

Amazon , which already has a significant physical presence in Ireland via the Dublin fulfillment center it opened in 2022, will now have a country-specific online presence on the Emerald Isle. The ecommerce giant will launch Amazon.ie The launch of Amazon.ie billion over the last decade, according to the company.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2022

The impact of this increasing growth is the resulting strain on incumbent infrastructure that was originally designed to manage only about 5% of a retailer’s total sales capacity; the steady rise in costs from stretching this capacity have shown home delivery, buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS) and curbside fulfilment to be highly unprofitable.

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Inside Retail

MAY 16, 2024

The homewares retailer has tapped Jet Charge to install electric charging and energy management systems for six vehicles at each of the 10 Ikea stores in the country. The infrastructure will also enable low-cost charging of 28 vehicles at its central distribution centre warehouse in Sydney’s Marsden Park. Ikea will invest $4.5

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 9, 2023

These four emerging trends elevate the urgency for supply chain execs to move distributed order management (DOM) to the top of their lists. #1: The word omnichannel has been around for decades, but not until very recently has the industry realized the role of distributed order management in their aggregate financial equation.

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365 Retail

JUNE 27, 2022

Uniquely, the international fulfilment provider wanted to improve its app so that e-commerce retailers actually used it less. Paul Taylor, Chief Operations Officer at fulfilmentcrowd. Paul Taylor, Chief Operations Officer at fulfilmentcrowd. 1) How will you manage stock inventory?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 3, 2023

If you asked our CEO pre-pandemic who we were, he would say we are a marketing and entertainment company that happens to sell shoes ,” said Jenna Flateman Posner, Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at Snipes in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “We However, reaching its current level of success — 308 U.S.

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