Retail TouchPoints
MAY 24, 2023
Walmart has opened an in-store Market Fulfillment Center (MFC) at Store 100 in its home town of Bentonville, Ark. Like the retailer’s first MFC , which opened in 2019 in Salem, N.H., This new order fulfillment system is truly game-changing,” said Ryan Simpson, Store Manager at Store 100 in a statement.
Retail TouchPoints
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
While digital penetration is nowhere near the highs it reached during the pandemic, when online accounted for approximately 40% of sales, according to Macy’s CEO Jeff Gennette, ecommerce is continuing its pre-pandemic growth trend with digital penetration this year at 33% , up from 25% in 2019. .
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Retail TouchPoints
MARCH 11, 2021
The dramatic increase in ecommerce volume triggered by the pandemic increased many retailers’ topline revenues, but many are finding it difficult to contain the costs of new types of order fulfillment such as BOPIS, ship-from-store and curbside pickup, according to a report from Incisiv , commissioned by Manhattan Associates Inc.
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 20, 2021
If you cast your mind back to 2019, Christmas was business as usual. “E-commerce It’s kind of elongated and stretched out,” noted Adam Ioakim, managing director, APAC at Emarsys. They’re building new distribution warehouses, they’re bringing on more staff to fulfil online orders. It’s not what it once was.
Retail TouchPoints
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Target ’s holiday hiring numbers will be in line with the 130,000 associates onboarded in 2019 , but this year’s emphasis on e-Commerce will shift how they are assigned. The retailer will double the number of store team members devoted to Drive Up and Order Pickup orders, and increase the number of seasonal and full-time warehouse hires.
Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 17, 2021
GIANT has added frictionless just walk out technology at a grab-and-go convenience store located at its Philadelphia ecommerce fulfillment center. Ahold Delhaize first piloted the lunchbox technology at its Quincy, Mass., office in 2019 for a cafeteria that serves 1,000 workers. It’s that easy.
Retail TouchPoints
JANUARY 18, 2024
Target has tapped Michael Fiddelke, who has served as the retailer’s CFO since November 2019, to add the COO role to his responsibilities. Fiddelke began his career as a consultant with Deloitte and joined Target as an intern in 2003 after earning an MBA at the Kellogg School of Management.
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