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Amazon FBA Boosts Sustainability Efforts With Two Circular Commerce Programs

Retail TouchPoints

Amazon has introduced two new Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) programs to help merchants selling on Amazon resell customer-returned or overstocked items. FBA Liquidations will provider sellers the option to use Amazon’s existing wholesale liquidation partners and technology to recoup potential losses on returned and overstock inventory.

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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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2022 Retail Success Guide

Independent Retailer

Crypto Payments Help Deliver a Competitive Advantage. Crypto payments help businesses attract a new customer segment while also lowering payment costs and eliminating fraud chargebacks. There are four main findings based on interviews with four merchants that accept bitcoin and other cryptos.

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Challenger Brands Are Failing On Online Delivery – Things Must Change 

Retail Minded

It’s not a stretch to say that t oday’s ecommerce market is fraught with fulfilment issues, and t hese widespread errors and delays mean shoppers are missing out on vital deliveries, leading to greater levels of disappointment and mistrust in online shopping. . Online Demand Is Causing Costly Errors . Spilling The Secret Sauce.

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Three Reasons Ecommerce Merchants Should Monitor the Battle Between Amazon and Shopify

Retail Minded

The behind the scenes battle going on between the two biggest ecommerce platforms in the US – Amazon and Shopify – could have significant implications for merchants. Amazon’s real customer is the end consumer – rather than the merchants that make up its Marketplace business. That moves Shopify into Amazon’s patch.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 269 – Amazon and Instacart get new CEOs, other news

Retail Geek

Jeff Bezos steps down Amazon offers it’s multi-channel fulfillment (MCF) to Big Commerce customers. Amazon will you know being quite a bit ahead of Shopify you know then making this ubiquitously available will cause some problems for Shopify the one thing that still gives me pause and we give me pause if I were a merchant.

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How Smaller Assortments, Lower Inventory Levels Can Maximize Post-COVID Success

Retail TouchPoints

By creating narrower product assortments and limiting inventory levels — especially for product shipments headed to brick-and-mortar stores —merchants would gain the ability to react more quickly to changing consumer trends, and even potentially reduce their need for markdowns. Richard Maicki. Keith Jelinek.