Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

United Parcel Service (UPS) plans to buy Roadie , a delivery platform supporting local same-day delivery across the country. Financial terms of the acquisition, which is expected to close in Q4 2021, were not disclosed. Roadie will continue to operate under its own name following the purchase’s completion.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Speedy delivery is the name of the game for supermarket retailers all over the world right now, as major chains invest in micro fulfilment centres and explore dark stores in an effort to keep up with customers’ rising expectations during the pandemic. By the end of June 2021, Missfresh operated 625 mini-warehouses in 16 cities in China.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 5, 2021

That’s why properties have focused on perfecting the tenant mix , onboarding a compelling combination of restaurants, entertainment and up-and-coming DTC darlings. Last Mile Services Become a Long-Term Play for Properties. The low-hanging fruit opportunity for mall developers and landlords is to double down on the in-person experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2022

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. billion in February 2021. The upgrades are aimed at benefiting retailers as well as customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Retail TouchPoints 2022 Retail Strategy & Planning (#RSP22) webinar series, now available on-demand, offered a wealth of tips and best practices across critical areas including pricing, location-based technology, inventory management and marketplaces. Mastercard Spending Data Reveals 4 Key Takeaways for Holiday 2022.

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Mass Relators

MARCH 31, 2024

She has held roles of increasing responsibility, most recently as vice president, human resources for DG’s retail organization since 2021 and was named to the Mass Market Retailers Most Influential Women list in 2023. Melanie Cook Brian Haug Brian Haug has been promoted to senior vice president, margin planning and analytics.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In the last year, startups such as Jokr , Gorillas and GoPuff have left legacy delivery services like Uber Eats and Instacart scrambling to keep up in the speed wars. Just last week, reports surfaced that instant grocery delivery service 1520 was shutting down after exhausting its funding. Beginning Dec.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 12, 2023

In the US, social commerce is anticipated to double to US$80 billion in annual sales between 2021 and 2025, putting the US second only to China in social commerce, although China outsells the US by a factor of 10. TikTok reports that two-thirds of its users were inspired to shop even when they weren’t actually planning to do so.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 15, 2021

As a result, the industry unlocked and fulfilled five years of online retail growth in just six months through a patchwork of band-aids and gut-led experiments – effectively realising 2025 sales levels in 2020. Digital payment. Digital payment in physical stores removes some people’s concerns about the security of digital payments.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday just around the corner, planning for a successful 2022 peak season is essential – now more than ever. As the supply chain issues and labour shortages that defined the 2021 festive period are more or less resolved, the opportunity for a strong peak period presents itself.

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Mass Relators

APRIL 28, 2022

billion in last year’s first quarter 2021. With [Amazon Web Services] growing 34% annually over the last two years, and 37% year-over-year in the first quarter, AWS has been integral in helping companies weather the pandemic and move more of their workloads into the cloud. But the company also reported a net loss of $3.8

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Retail Minded

OCTOBER 30, 2022

They were all made to measure and I shared the whole process on Instagram. Jes hired a lean but talented team to help her fulfill demand and built a slick online store with Shopify Advanced as orders ramped up. Entry was free and applicants were asked to submit two full years of revenue data for 2020 and 2021 to be considered.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

Now, at BigCommerce, she helps merchants grow via integrations to channels such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay and Walmart , a task she says is “like walking among giants.”. As a result, companies had to contemplate, ‘What is my omnichannel strategy? How do I make sure I’m talking to my shoppers wherever they are?’.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 29, 2023

Jason: [8:04] No I was just I was just thinking that they I assume they left it blank because the underwriters were out of practice. There’s also the others you can think of Jason there’s this one.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2022

Also known as pay-over-time or pay-in-4 installment plans, BNPL offers consumers the chance to split up the cost of major purchases directly at the point of sale. Most buy now, pay later offers are interest- and fee-free, unless customers miss a payment. BNPL fulfills a need that previously wasn’t being met,” said Sharp.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

million, FY Merchant Solutions revenue grew 116% to $2B Shopify Expands Its Checkout System to Facebook and Instagram. Episode 254 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded live on Thursday, February 19th, 2021. Amazon news: Amazon acquires Seltz, a Shopify competitor. Transcript.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 29, 2022

Key Topics: Declining macro economics First quarter 1P sales were down year-over-year for the first time in two decades, as it had to comp against a very strong Q1 2021 which was elevated by the pandemic. In this episode we do a deep dive into all the details. AWS getting a strong boost from the pandemic.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 30, 2021

Episode 262 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday April 30, 2021. They painted a picture about facing some significant headwinds and I think they they told investors that they plan to significantly ramp up investment spending. We recap Amazon, EBay, and Shopify Q1 earnings reports. Transcript. So you know that that.

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Retail Geek

JULY 9, 2021

Jeff Bezos steps down Amazon offers it’s multi-channel fulfillment (MCF) to Big Commerce customers. Shopify Unite 2021 Instagram leans into commerce Nike earnings Warby Parker IPO. Episode 269 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday July 8, 2021. Other News. Transcript.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2021

Nearly 50% of those surveyed said they’d be doing more of their shopping online in 2021; more than one third said they’d be using buy online, pick up in-store more, and more than one quarter said they’d be using curbside pickup more this year than they did pre-pandemic. Kendra Scott also created a curbside pickup program.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

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. Keith Jelinek.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 2, 2021

It was the kind of “-geddon” that could be seen coming from a mile away — a perfect storm combining an ecommerce boom; retailers, fulfillment centers and shipping providers that were already stretched thin by a global pandemic; and the historically hectic holiday season looming. That number was even higher in January 2021. “

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2022

Sessions illustrate the increasingly complex nature of the customer experience, and how the lines between commerce, marketing, service, and even supply chain and fulfillment, continue to blur. It’s no wonder marketers and merchants are overwhelmed trying to capture consumers’ attention and convert them. A whopping $3.23

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 3, 2021

E-commerce University 2021. The pandemic has made omnichannel a business imperative for merchants of all sizes. We’re in a world where if merchants aren’t considering how to turn on an omni strategy, there’s going to be downstream problems later.” billion industry by the end of 2021. Access Now.

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Retail Geek

MARCH 11, 2022

eTail West Tradshow Amazon Stock Split Shopify Fulfillment Network eBay “The Vault” Twitter E-Commerce Pilot Retail Media Networks are on fire Inflation continues to rise. little local groups doing random things or there’s a big plan and they’re assembling things I’ve said this before I’m still think. [8:48]

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Inside Retail

JUNE 30, 2021

In order to fulfil customer demands and win their hearts, we, as retailers, need to understand and cater to their changing behaviour and trends. For 2021, I see personalisation and customer insight-related technologies making the biggest impact as they become more robust and accessible. Strategically located on a gross area of 3.48

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Small Biz Trends

JULY 19, 2021

These restricted items include but are not limited to certain firearms and parts, goods or services that promote self-harm, COVID-19 products that flout the rule for the sale of COVID-19 related products, etc. from 2021 to 2028. from 2021 to 2028, reports Grand View Research. in 2021 and 5.7% billion in 2020.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 13, 2022

This month you’ve seen all these news articles about Amazon actually having too much warehouse space too much what they call fulfillment center space and how they’re literally trying to sublease space to other people that they may have over-invested, as e-commerce starts to slow down and if you cook to the this next slide. [8:15]

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Mass Relators

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

A report by Reuters noted that the company’s net sales in the final quarter of 2021 totaled 20.1 “For the full year, our COVID-19 care investments totaled €364 million, which included our commitment of €20 million in additional 2021 charitable donations spread evenly between the U.S. billion euros ($22.8 and Europe.

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Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

And so it was like a significant Miss and if you know you look at the recent history of growth of AWS I mean you go back to 2021 it was. The fast run rate for these cloud services is over but that businesses spending to move to the cloud has slowed down because of the economy right and that you know as as. 3 billion versus 2.94

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Retail Geek

MAY 6, 2024

Furthermore, we embark on a detailed exploration of supply chain logistics, with a spotlight on Amazon’s expansion into third-party logistics services, revolutionizing traditional retail strategies by sharing proprietary capabilities for wider adoption. 2020, 2021, and 2022 were the greatest three years in the history of retail.

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Retail Geek

MAY 20, 2021

April Sales – Flat vs. March 2021, up 41% vs. April 2020 (severely Covid impacted month). Episode 264 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday May 19, 2021. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Podcast RSS SoundCloud TuneIn iHeartRadio Google Play Music Overcast Pocket Casts Facebook. ? ? ? ?

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Retail Geek

JUNE 11, 2021

Episode 266 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday June 11, 2021. Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scot show this is episode 266 being recorded on Thursday June 10th 2021 I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I’m here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Transcript.

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Retail Geek

MAY 28, 2021

Episode 265 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday May 27, 2021. Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scot show this is episode 265 being recorded on Thursday May 27th 2021 I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I’m here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Digital up 82% vs 2 YA. Transcript.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2022

Here’s how he plans to do it. That, of course, is the key to Wish’s business model — by connecting international consumers directly with manufacturers (most of them Chinese, although one of Talwar’s initiatives is to diversify the company’s merchant base), customers can get products for dirt cheap.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 6, 2023

We cover many of the tactical challenges (onboarding SKUs, product content, fulfillment, and curation), as well as the opportunities of this new “CircularCommerce” space. Matt: [18:53] No no that I left before any of those kind of process integration initiatives occurred. And we wound up. [29:43]

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Scot: [6:16] Should be over should be like part of the onboarding. more than 20 21 largely because 2021. So it’s an area where companies are looking to save money very quickly because you’re not locked into certainty or anything like that like you would, be with some software as a service platforms.

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