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Ubers Eats Enhances Customer Experience with Extended Ordering Hours, Live Tracking

Retail TouchPoints

Uber is expanding Uber Eats’ services with new features such as the ability to place orders when grocery stores aren’t open for later delivery, live tracking of orders from store to door and easier product replacements. Uber also boosted its delivery capabilities in July 2020 through the acquisition of Postmates for more than $2.6

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Alibaba Supply Chain Exec Recommends Futureproofing with AI, Blockchain and Crowdsourcing

Retail TouchPoints

In 2020 he joined Alibaba, where he is now tasked with developing the company’s strategy and building platform-level solutions around international shipping, logistics, cross-border trade and global expansion. The pandemic created a lot of disruptions and issues for businesses in establishing and maintaining desired inventory levels.

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How Retailers like Rothy’s and Shinola are ‘De-Risking’ Product Design with Consumer Data

Retail TouchPoints

Technological innovations have optimized and enhanced almost all areas of the retail organization, from marketing to fulfillment, but the process of bringing products to market has been markedly slower to advance. But these legacy processes don’t work as well as they once did, and COVID made that fact hard to ignore. “A

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Is It Too Late for JCPenney to ‘Make it Count’? Inside the Retailer’s $1B Turnaround Plan

Retail TouchPoints

A new POS system will create a centralized view of inventory for customers and associates, and improved WiFi — coupled with associate mobile POS devices — will help enrich customer service in stores. More than 100 stores have gone through this refresh thus far. Merchandising and supply chain optimization.

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Has retail seen its watershed moment?

365 Retail

2020 was a year like no other, and the shockwaves caused by the pandemic have inherently altered consumer-facing operations at their very core. over the six weeks of Christmas 2020, the worst-ever outcome. If services involve remote assistance, e-tailers should evaluate the software they are putting into use.

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5 Vital Considerations for Big Data Analytics in Retail

Retalon

Retail businesses collect more data than ever before, and from every aspect of the supply chain, including: Logistics data (vendor compliance, lead times, etc.). Inventory levels (store, warehouse, distribution centers). Consider the way retailers traditionally forecast fulfillment. POS data (sales, returns, etc.). The result?

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12 Critical Retail Industry Performance Metrics (2020)

Retalon

Most Important KPIs for the Retail Industry in 2020. Jump Ahead Most Important KPIs for the Retail Industry in 2020 Examples of Retail KPIs that Maximize Inventory ROI 1. Inventory Turnover Ratio 3. Merchants and inventory analysts must be aware of how well they are getting their products to the stores.