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Amazon Appoints Insider as CEO of Worldwide Stores

Retail TouchPoints

Herrington joined Amazon as VP of Consumables in 2005, launched Amazon Fresh in 2007 and was promoted to SVP of Consumables in 2014. Prior to joining Amazon, Herrington served as CEO of KeepMedia and VP of Marketing at online grocery retailer Webvan. Since 2015, Herrington has served as Amazon’s SVP of the North America Consumer.

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How Brands Large and Small are Leaning into the Amazon Effect to Compete

Retail TouchPoints

It’s not just possible but inevitable that retailers can thrive on Amazon and compete with it at the same time. A business model that was only possible with their unparalleled investment in the systems and shipping, fulfillment and supply chain infrastructure to support it. The purchasing power of $79 in 2005 equals about $109.90

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How Brands Can Deliver Sustainable Instant Commerce for Consumers

Retail TouchPoints

Consumers’ expectations of quick delivery have been building since Amazon launched its two-day delivery promise with Prime membership way back in 2005. At the time, Amazon held an incredible competitive advantage and, as other retailers have struggled for years to catch up, Amazon has just kept going.

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How Vintage Wine Estates is Uncorking New Opportunities in Alcohol Ecommerce

Retail TouchPoints

“The wine industry is a very old-school business, and it’s a distributor-driven business because of the 21st Amendment, which basically gave all the power to the states to regulate and manage alcohol sales,” explained Jessica Kogan, Chief Growth and Experience Officer at Vintage Wine Estates in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Rajesh Grover on transforming Kanmo Group into an omnichannel machine

Inside Retail

Founded in 2005, the group has successfully built a conglomerate that speaks to the heart of Indonesian consumers. Venturing beyond the traditional retail sphere, the group has also made its mark in travel retail, securing its place as the master concessionaire for fashion & accessories at Jakarta’s Airport In Indonesia.

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Customers are Tired of Empty Shelves, and it’s Time for a Fix

Retail TouchPoints

Traditional methods of manual audits and gap scans are time-intensive and only provide a picture of your availability at that given moment in time. If your availability monitoring tool builds an accurate picture in-store — where most online grocery orders are picked from — you will improve online fulfillment.

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Store Management Costs in the Era of Ecommerce

Retail TouchPoints

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.