Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

While 2020 saw brick-and-mortar retail businesses buckle under the strain of social distancing and stay-at-home orders, the number of purchases being made online skyrocketed. At the same time, they also realised that managing an e-commerce business comes with its own challenges and requires a different set of tools.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

stores, to distribution center-based fulfillment of large items like riding mowers, grills and furniture. The retailer’s legacy distribution model had stores operating as nodes in the fulfillment process. Lowe’s kicked off the transition to the market delivery model in 2021 in its Florida and Ohio Valley regions.

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Hyken

DECEMBER 3, 2021

He shares the four key areas that lead to elevated customer experiences while growing rapidly. In April 2021, I had the honor of becoming the chief executive officer of Xpress Global Systems (XGS), a trucking company that specializes in transporting flooring products across all 50 of the United States. Voice of Customer.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2022

Clark stepped into the role in early 2021 following the departure of Jeff Wilke ; he had most recently served as SVP of Worldwide Operations. Clark has served in managerial positions at a number of fulfillment centers and helped establish the company’s Tokyo fulfillment center, and led the build out Amazon’s transportation network.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 20, 2021

It’s kind of elongated and stretched out,” noted Adam Ioakim, managing director, APAC at Emarsys. The interesting thing is we started to see a few retailers starting Black Friday and Cyber Monday a few days earlier and starting to pull some of that early customer engagement into their pipeline,” observed Ioakim.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Books-A-Million will leverage its 231 stores to offer same- and next-day delivery using the white label Walmart GoLocal service, which Walmart introduced in August 2021. The service is available for tens of thousands of products that are in-stock at nearby stores, including books, toys, games and collectibles.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 29, 2023

Using the Amazon “Just Walk Out” technology, Grubhub Campus has introduced cashierless checkout at convenience stores at Loyola University Maryland. Students, faculty and staff scan a QR code to enter the store, pick their items and leave, with the payment deducted from their student meal plan or other stored payment methods.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 8, 2023

Best Buy Health will work with Atrium Health to develop new hospital-at-home offerings, helping enable providers to deliver high-quality care while reducing emotional and financial burdens on patients and caregivers. Additionally, the retailer added the Best Buy Health Lively app on the Apple Watch in 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Sell those sellers access to logistics and fulfillment services, many of which were already built for its own first-party retail business 4. speaking to the more than 1,000 sellers present at the event. Exhibit A — how Amazon built its hugely successful digital commerce business: 1. Create an effective ecommerce platform 2.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

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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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Kroger has kicked off a multi-year agreement to have Gatik AI ’s autonomous box trucks transport products from the retailer’s Dallas customer fulfillment center to multiple retail locations in the area. for multi-city deployments of autonomous delivery vehicles in September 2021. and Louisiana since late 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Since moving to digital in 2016, we’re always looking for innovative ways to serve our readers,” said Campbell Price, Ecommerce Director at The Independent in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. Then the merchant takes over for fulfillment, logistics and so on.”.

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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

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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Mass Relators

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The food industry is making major investments aimed at addressing shoppers’ evolving tastes, according to FMI—The Food Industry Association. They are also increasing labor allocation for online purchase fulfillment (52%) and in-store/curbside pick-up (48%). ARLINGTON, Va. — More information and the report are available here.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2021

A closer look at these metrics allows you to revisit your business strategy, sharpen the systems you have in place and increase sales. But when looking at these numbers, the excess data can feel overwhelming, so we’ve rounded up the most important retail metrics to leverage in 2021. Evaluating 2020 Metrics and Planning for 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Items will be fulfilled from Sephora’s 500+ U.S. Customers can use either the DoorDash app or website, and members of the Sephora Beauty Insider loyalty program can earn points for these purchases by linking their account on the DoorDash app’s Sephora store page. Items from U.S.

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Mass Relators

MARCH 4, 2022

CINCINNATI — Kroger announced at its 2022 Business Update in Orlando Friday that it will offer more Americans delivery through the addition of spoke facilities in Austin and San Antonio, Texas and Birmingham , Ala. powered by the Kroger Fulfillment Network and Ocado Group.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2022

Consumers’ continued reliance on omnichannel fulfillment has created new opportunities for industry giants like Walmart to differentiate and gain market share. comparable sales growth and growing market share in grocery during Q4 2021, and much of this success can be attributed to its robust last mile and fulfillment strategy.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 13, 2021

The 2021 Connected Consumer Series reflected the challenges retail (and society as a whole) have faced during the past year, but also the growing sense of optimism that is taking hold this year. 5 Social Advertising Trends for Retailers to Know in 2021: Featuring Under Armour. Retail CX Trends 2021: New CX for a New World.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The Michaels Marketplace will be invite-only and aimed at “high-volume sellers of components, tools or craft materials,” according to an announcement on the company’s website. The retailer also is currently seeking third-party solution providers in areas including payment processors, order management and shipping and fulfillment.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 5, 2022

Amazon has delayed or canceled plans for at least 16 U.S. billion net loss, which was partially driven by $6 billion in added costs — including the cost of operating its massive fulfillment network. Labor and physical space are no longer the bottlenecks they were throughout much of 2020 and 2021. year-over-year. in-store growth.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 26, 2022

(AEO) — to provide faster and more efficient last mile delivery options to its customers, including same- and next-day delivery. Quiet Platforms’ “shared supply chain” solution allows companies to collaborate to solve common logistics, fulfillment and delivery challenges.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 21, 2021

Retail results for Q1 2021 have been promising so far, showing that the economy may finally be emerging from a long, slow year. economy has never been shut down like this in my lifetime,” said Hilding Anderson, Head of Strategy, Retail, North America at Publicis Sapient in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. ’ ” said Anderson.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

The new operating model will help each organization focus on their biggest growth opportunities while still working together to provide a seamless customer experience across both channels. The Bay kicked off its initial ecommerce expansion in April 2021 with the launch of the Hudson’s Bay Marketplace.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Small business owners selecting Affirm at checkout will enter information, including their registered business name and address. We’re constantly striving to make Amazon Business the best place for small businesses to fulfill their buying needs,” said Todd Heimes, Director of Amazon Business Worldwide in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2020

At the store level, the funds will go toward: Renovations to nearly one-third of its locations; Expansion of curbside pickup ; Piloting “micro fulfillment centers” within supercenters to speed up fulfillment of pickup and delivery orders ; and Deploying digitization, robotics and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to make stores smarter.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2022

TCGplayer, which employs more than 600 people, will operate its TCGplayer Marketplace and Authentication Center autonomously following the acquisition, providing eBay with omnichannel capabilities including order fulfillment and cart optimization. The deal is expected to be completed by Q1 2023. Headquartered in Syracuse, N.Y.,

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In 2021, even as shoppers returned to the store as pandemic restrictions lifted, it still grew a bit more to over $90 billion ( 10% of the total), according to Mercatus. In 2021, physical grocery stores had a larger percentage increase in sales than online. COVID obviously changed that, almost overnight.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

With the two dominant deal days in our rearview mirrors and the world still largely at home due to the pandemic’s restrictions, the e-commerce onslaught will continue, causing retailers to adjust their fulfilment strategies to stay afloat. Fulfilment operations expand to meet high volume, higher expectations.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2021

If you look at U.S. In Q3, ecommerce was at 14.3% , declining some as more stores opened up, but still significantly higher than the prior year. RTP: As we move into 2021, what are some steps sellers and marketplaces should be taking to consolidate the gains they have made in 2020? In Q2 2020, boom, the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 21, 2022

Google’s management solution appears to be aimed at the small- to mid-sized retailer market, an already hotly contested territory being fought over by Shopify, with its Shopify Fulfillment Network offering two-day delivery and promising smooth returns, and Amazon with its FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) services for its marketplace sellers.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2022

Available to retailers that also sell on the Amazon Marketplace, the expanded seller offering will see Amazon associates pick up and deliver online orders from retailers’ stores to Prime members who select the option at checkout. Amazon then sends the order to the store and a retail store associate fulfills it.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Nordstrom will power the front-end digital customer experience — the Nordstrom.com Sports Fan Shop — while orders will be fulfilled and shipped by Fanatics. Macy’s launched a similar partnership with Fanatics in October 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The desire is still there to do touchless, but for different reasons than COVID safety,” he said during a presentation at the 2021 retailX conference in Chicago. margin points when their customers’ journeys are not optimized, but when they are optimized, they can recover about 70% of that margin loss,” explained Buzek.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Since 2019, it has relaunched its online offering in Australia, rolled out dedicated e-commerce sites and fulfilment centres in New Zealand and the UK, and upgraded its warehouse management and order management systems, leading to significant efficiency gains and growth. Improving the customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Top-line findings from a recent Sensormatic survey reveal that while in-store shopping is expected to rise through the holiday season, what consumers are looking for while they’re there is for retailers to provide insight into product availability and alternative fulfillment offerings.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 4, 2022

2021 was a critical year for the direct-to-consumer (DTC) space. At the same time, they’ve had to navigate consumers’ increased desire to buy from brands that align with their social and environmental beliefs. Back in January 2021, it meant speculative trading card investments. Let’s think ahead though.

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