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Amazon Appoints Insider as CEO of Worldwide Stores

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Amazon has named 17-year company veteran Doug Herrington to the renamed role of CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores, filling the position left vacant by former CEO of the Worldwide Consumer Dave Clark. Since 2015, Herrington has served as Amazon’s SVP of the North America Consumer. Pat Bajari (Chief Economist).

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Sensory Enabling Technologies are Radically Reshaping the Future of Digital Retail

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Today, it is possible to stimulate all consumer senses online. Sensory Enabling Technologies (SETs) enable consumers to feel textures, smell and even perceive the taste of a product. Key takeaways: SETs enable brands to craft exemplary customer experiences online by appealing to consumers’ multisensory perception.

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

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grocery shoppers, 78% of consumers have experienced out-of-stock products in-store over the last 12 months, and 68% have experienced the same issue online. Improving Customer Satisfaction and Building Loyalty Customer satisfaction and product availability go hand in hand: customers are happy if stores have what they want, when they want.

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How Vintage Wine Estates is Uncorking New Opportunities in Alcohol Ecommerce

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The latter is a particularly welcome development for large purveyors like Vintage Wines, which now have more options and space to introduce their offerings to consumers, and Kogan has been integral in rolling this out across the company’s portfolio at retailers across the country.

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Macy’s vs. HBC: Two Different Takes on the Ecommerce Spinoff

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Consumers have moved on to a very digitally led lifestyle and mindset, whereas the retail industry, at least many legacy retailers, still think of digital commerce as separate from store commerce. . This strategy could hold water. So there are precedents for the model working, but separation by itself is not going to produce the value.

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Dollar General bolsters team with 11 appointments

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With more than 18 years of experience in strategic global sourcing, product development, manufacturing and international operations management, Li plays a significant role in the Company’s non-consumable initiative, health care and other product sourcing initiatives, the company said.

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Amazon names new head for global stores

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He will succeed Dave Clark, the former CEO of Amazon Worldwide Consumer, who is leaving the company to serve as CEO of the supply chain software start-up Flexport. He joined the company in 2005 to build out our Consumables business, launched AmazonFresh in 2007, and in 2015, took on leading all of our North American Consumer business.