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Innovate And Automate: How To Optimize Fulfillment In The E-Commerce Era

Retail TouchPoints

Similarly, the likes of Walmart and Target provide flexible fulfillment options like “buy online, pick up in-store” (BOPIS) paired with convenient curbside pickup. With such high standards set, other retailers must now keep up. However, many realize that their current fulfillment operations run too slowly to meet rising expectations.

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6 Retail Shipping Trends to Watch in 2020

Retail Next

The retail industry has had to change rapidly in response to transforming customer needs. Shoppers want their orders the next day, with free shipping whenever possible. Though some companies have struggled to keep up, others are adapting and revolutionizing the way modern retail operates. Same- or Next-Day Delivery.

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The Logistical Nightmare Before Christmas: How to Avoid it

Retail TouchPoints

The 2020 holiday shopping season is anticipated to be remarkably different than any in recent years, especially when it comes to where people are expected to shop — online. With this in mind, delivery, logistics and distribution of inventory need to be top of mind for retailers.

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Best Buy’s eCommerce Strategy, What You Need to Know

Indigo 9 Digital

“We are building all of our experiences around meeting these needs as we move from being a big box retailer with a strong omni channel presence to an omni channel retailer with a large store footprint for support and fulfillment,” says Corie Barry Best Buy’s CEO. Remodel stores for the future. Do you like this content?

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6 Reasons Walmart’s eCommerce Strategy is Winning

Indigo 9 Digital

By Tricia McKinnon 2020 is the year when the eCommerce narrative shifted in a major way. Before everyone was focused solely on Amazon but as retailers were forced to shift sales online during the COVID-19 pandemic a number of retailers came to the forefront with their eCommerce savvy and Walmart is one of those retailers.

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Marks & Spencer’s Turnaround Strategy, Why it’s Working

Indigo 9 Digital

But in 2020 Marks & Spencer opened up its website to outside apparel brands. In a small pilot that took place in October of 2020, where Marks & Spencer sold womenswear brand Nobody’s Child on its website, Marks & Spencer found that close to 10% of customers who bought the brand were new to Marks & Spencer womenswear.

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Rethinking Retail Fulfillment – the key to Navigating a Post-Brexit Supply Chain

Retail TouchPoints

December 31, 2020 marked the end of the Brexit transition period, and whilst many took a sigh of relief, in reality the Brexit effect had only just begun. Many retailers are already experiencing increased tariffs and supply chain snags , putting customer satisfaction at jeopardy. The shockwaves presented by Brexit are now imminent.