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“Not surprised”: Experts react to Amazon’s reported department store plan

Inside Retail

Since opening its first bricks-and-mortar store, a bookstore, in 2015, Amazon now runs more than 20 bookstores and more than two dozen 4-star stores in the US. An online marketplace such as Amazon fulfills this role remarkably efficiently, and arguably better,” former Myer CEO Richard Umbers told Inside Retail.

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How Merchgirls supercharged business growth by 300% during the pandemic

Inside Retail

Established in 2015 by Hannah Chipkin and Pippa Joseph, Merchgirls quickly became the go-to merch solution for companies that wanted something different to the traditional merchandise offering. Reduce costs with fulfilment optimisation. When your shipping needs are complex, we make things simple. What were the results?

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3 Ways Retailers Can Harness the Post-Purchase Experience

Retail TouchPoints

The pandemic has shifted post-purchase expectations — consumers expect a more personalized, relevant-to-them experience that goes beyond checkout. Fulfilment, shipping, delivery and returns updates can all be enriched with personalized promotions, loyalty program information and other immersive, branded content.

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Why Retailers Need Cloud-Native Payment Orchestration: 5 Tips to Flexible, Scalable, Customized Payment Infrastructure

Retail TouchPoints

New, exciting payment methods have arisen such as wallets, installment payments and QR code checkouts, and there’s more on the way. Deploying these new payment types will cause very little friction to backend accounts and fulfillment teams. In 2015 he orchestrated the purchase of Braintree by PayPal and joined the team.

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5 Things to Know About Amazon’s New ‘Style’ Clothing Stores

Retail TouchPoints

Amazon Style will actually be the company’s seventh physical retail format, which all began with Amazon Books way back in 2015. To pull this off, Amazon will be using the same technology and processes it employs at its fulfillment centers. The King of Ecommerce is no stranger to brick-and-mortar — far from it.

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The Future of Retail: 9 Ways Alibaba is Redefining Retail Stores

Indigo 9 Digital

In the United States Amazon has made the most significant advances in creating tech enabled retail stores with its Just Walk Out technology that allows customers to skip the checkout. Three years earlier in 2015, eCommerce giant Alibaba opened its first Hema supermarket in China. Stores as fulfillment centres.

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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.