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Target to Spend $5B to Enhance Operations in 2022, Plans 250 More Ulta Beauty Shop-in-Shops

Retail TouchPoints

Target has big plans for 2022, with the retailer announcing plans to invest up to $5 billion this year to open new stores, enhance its digital, fulfillment and supply chain capabilities, and expand its shop-in-shop concept with Ulta Beauty.

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FWO targets warehousing firm for underpaying workers more than $360,000

Inside Retail

Winit Australia, a Hong Kong-based business operating fulfilment centres across Australia, the US, UK, China and Europe, allegedly underpaid 30 Sydney-based workers by more than $360,000 between July 2017 and June 2018. All workers in Australia have the same rights, regardless of nationality and visa status.”.

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Convenience and Reliability Trump Speed in Digital Grocery, and Here’s How to Deliver Them

Retail TouchPoints

More grocery shopping is happening online than ever before: 73% of consumers had purchased grocery items online in the three months leading up to February 2021, compared to 17% in February 2017, according to the PowerReviews Evolution of the Modern Grocery Shopper study. It does depend a lot on a specific customer situation.

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4 Critical Steps for Optimizing Omnichannel Order Fulfillment in 2021

Retalon

Omnichannel order fulfillment that drives customer experience (and boosts profits). Although the trend towards omnichannel fulfillment is not new, the pandemic changed many retailers’ business models almost overnight, and these changes are not going away. What is omnichannel order fulfillment in retail?

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Why Investors are Racing to Buy Up Amazon’s Hottest Third-Party Sellers

Retail TouchPoints

Rollup firms are typically able to buy these Amazon businesses at anywhere from 4X to 6X EBITDA, sometimes less, according to Thomson: “As long as you manage to keep the same efficiency that any one of those accounts had when they were a standalone, you can get a 15X to 25X valuation on your company. There is massive financial arbitrage here.

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Exclusive Q&A: Can Anything Slow the Amazon Behemoth?

Retail TouchPoints

By the way, both of them together accounted for 37% of total U.S. Amazon also charges for fulfillment, and those fees more or less balance their fulfillment costs. It’s true that when they got into it [with Amazon’s 2017 purchase of Whole Foods ], it looked weird. ecommerce sales, according to the U.S.

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DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER SHIFT BOOSTS RETAIL INVESTMENT IN SUPPLY-CHAIN INNOVATION

Retail Minded

While the pandemic and subsequent ecommerce explosion have driven strong demand for true omnichannel supply chain commerce solutions, it has also fuelled a less immediately obvious longer-term move towards direct-to-consumer (D2C) fulfilment too. It recently reported that online sales grew by double-digits in the second quarter of 2022 too.