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Clean Data, Clean Planet: How Online Retailers can use Data Analytics to Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

Retail TouchPoints

Newly developed freight booking tools have made it easier and more efficient to book containers on large cargo ships, thereby reducing the need for air freight, which is generally seen as producing a larger carbon footprint. Shipping companies can obtain information through GPS tags to help locate containers and ships in real time.

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Meet Nakedvice, the brand founded by best friends in the Sportsgirl stockroom

Inside Retail

Birthday suit vice Against this backdrop, Australian fashion brand Nakedvice is on a mission to redefine accessible luxury with timeless designs that draw inspiration from vintage pieces and ‘90s nostalgia, aligning with emerging trends and consumer sentiments. It has also enabled the brand to ship from store if an item is out of stock.

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Casper CEO’s Roadmap to Profitability: Control Costs, Expand Wholesale and Cater to Customers

Retail TouchPoints

The company upended the mattress industry when it debuted in 2014, with its fresh branding and ecommerce-based approach to a category that had steadfastly resisted digital disruption. It flipped the script and put the power with the consumer, and that changed the entire category. This category is still very anti-consumer at its core.

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The Future of AR-Enabled 3D Scanning in Fashion Retail

Retail TouchPoints

While wearable tech developed by Google, Apple and others is still in development, sensors used in modern iPhones have already brought usable tech into consumers’ pockets. Online purchases are three times more likely to be returned compared to in-store purchases.

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Celebrate May the 4th with these Star Wars APIs

Cisco Retail

The API returns data on each planet’s climate, terrain, diameter, gravity, population, orbital period, rotation period, and surface water percentage. It’s perfect for developing applications or games set in the Star Wars universe. SWAPI Planets : You can use the SWAPI to get information about planets in the Star Wars universe.

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eCommerce and its Profitability Issue. Why its So Hard to Make Money

Indigo 9 Digital

When you shift activities consumers used to complete on their own to a retailer, someone has to pay for it. If getting the order to you is expensive what about returns? This process of ordering and returning goods is very expensive. million on “refunds, returns, and discounts”. By Tricia McKinnon eCommerce is expensive.

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Who could replace Sharon White as the next John Lewis Partnership chair?

Retail Gazette

Archie Norman Archie Norman has spent the last six years overseeing food and fashion group M&S’s turnaround plan as it looks to re-establish its brand, win back consumers and return to profit. Perhaps with M&S now motoring, Norman might jump ship to see if he can perform a similar feat at its rival? Sound familiar?