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Wayfair’s Strategy – 7 Compelling Facts You Need to Know

Indigo 9 Digital

In 2002 Wayfair’s founders Steve Conine and Niraj Shaw noticed a trend. Wayfair operates on a dropship model where it doesn’t own the majority products it sells to consumers. As Wired writes : “dropshipping is a ‘fulfilment’ method. They saw people were turning to the internet to find a broader selection of furniture.

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Nordstrom’s Strategy for Success, 6 Key Elements

Indigo 9 Digital

During the first quarter of 2020 Target’s digital sales increased by a whopping 141% and it fulfilled close to 80% of those online orders from its stores. Nordstrom also entered into a partnership in 2019 where it began accepting returns of online orders from competitors such as Kohl’s and Macy’s. Partnerships with on trend brands.

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Cross-Channel Home Décor Retailing: 5 Take Away Lessons from The Game Changers

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Meanwhile, the savviest retailers have also revamped their end-to-end eCommerce experience to include better data and visualization techniques by combining smart merchandise retail store management software tools with web friendly and augmented reality applications, as well as fast and flexible payment and fulfillment options.

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Predictive Analytics Brings Retailers Closer To Omni-Channel Customers

Retalon

Consumer behavior & expectations have changed. Unfortunately this is still a major disconnect between consumers and retailers as the Annual Supply Chain Benchmark Survey pointed out, 62% of retailers said inventory visibility was very important, but only 39% said the process was complete or even in progress.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 263 – Amazon Unbound with Brad Stone

Retail Geek

Brad: [5:23] Yeah that sounds painful right now but the metaphor does suggest that at some point there needs to be Return of the Jedi. Brad: [29:01] Isn’t that years off I mean how long before robot before you can have a ghost fulfillment center with no workers. Like Marketplace. [13:08]