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Due Diligence: Winning October Prime Day Prep Strategies

Retail TouchPoints

Pushback from Amazon is inevitable, as it will want to keep inventory down; however, it is imperative to plan ahead. Don’t oversell products if you don’t have the supply to fulfill orders. What still needs to ship? Businesses are more likely to influence Amazon buy-in when they can definitively sell what they say they can.

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Inditex To Shutter Up To 1,200 Non-Zara Stores As It Pivots Toward E-Commerce

Retail TouchPoints

Most of the closures are expected to be smaller, non- Zara branded locations, and the retailer also plans to open 450 new stores fitted with the latest sales integration technology. Staff members at the closed stores will be offered new roles with the company, such as handling fulfillment of ship-from-store orders.

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How Aussie gumboot brand Merry People is taking on industry giants

Inside Retail

Melbourne-based gumboot label Merry People was born in 2012 after founder Danielle Holloway found the that she couldn’t find a pair of gumboots suitable to her needs. And as the online side started to grow, I was able to ask them, should I hire someone, or outsource my warehousing and fulfilment? DH: I haven’t.

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The Solution for Smart Fulfillment and Omni Channel Retailing

Retalon

What retailers need is a strategy to allow stores to become fulfillment centers. This means that a store must not only carry enough inventory to satisfy forecasted demand, but also additional stock to satisfy any online or mobile orders that will be fulfilled though their location. How do you build a smart fulfillment strategy?

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 289 – ShipBob Co-Founder and CEO Dhruv Saxena

Retail Geek

ShipBob is a tech-enabled third-party logistics provider (3PL) that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. We discuss ShipBob’s origin story, how the e-commerce fulfillment industry has evolved, as well as the challenges and implications of Amazon and Shopify’s various fulfillment initiatives.

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The Solution for Smart Fulfillment and Omni Channel Retailing

Retalon

What retailers need is a strategy to allow stores to become fulfillment centers. This means that a store must not only carry enough inventory to satisfy forecasted demand, but also additional stock to satisfy any online or mobile orders that will be fulfilled though their location. How do you build a smart fulfillment strategy?

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 292 – Q1 2022 Recap (Live)

Retail Geek

You’re my people so another thing that fascinates me is the Auto industry is going to go through this digital change that we’ve seen e-commerce go through but it’s also the car is changing so I’ve had a Tesla since 2012 since I’ve been living that kind of vehicle 2.0