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Retailers Increasingly Turning to Third-Party Resources to Handle Fulfillment

Retail TouchPoints

Store-based fulfillment of customer orders got an enormous boost during the COVID pandemic, when both curbside pickup and delivery offerings became survival tactics for so many retailers. While just 45% of 2022 survey respondents outsourced deliveries to courier services, 57% did so in 2023.

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4 Ways Ecommerce Returns Will Change in 2022

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With 2022 in contention to be the year things “finally, actually” return to “normal” (if we even remember what that looked like!), Consumers are Split Between Home Pickup and Carrier Drop-off. While about 60% of Baby Boomers and Gen Xers live in pickup-friendly locations, that percentage drops into the 40s for millennials and Gen Zers.

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Salesforce’s Top 5 Predictions for Holiday 2022

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For the 2022 holiday season, the trillion-dollar question is how do brands and retailers maintain growth, but do it profitably with an omnichannel approach? Here are our five holiday shopping predictions to consider as you develop your strategy for the 2022 season. 5: Retailers will Test NFT Drops.

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Building Loyalty Without Breaking the Bottom Line: the Dual Shipping Dilemma for Ecommerce Merchants

Retail TouchPoints

This presents a dual shipping dilemma for businesses: how can they keep shipping costs on the business low, while also offering customer-friendly return policies? This means that when ecommerce retailers can’t provide the peace of mind that clear return shipping policies can offer, customers will take their money and run.

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Reports: Chinese Ecommerce Player Pinduoduo Launches U.S. Site

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Pinduoduo has made its most aggressive move yet into non-Chinese markets with the Sept. 1, 2022 launch of its Temu site, according to CNBC and other media reports. Temu’s site shows average shipping times to most of the U.S. Both of Pinduoduo’s larger rivals already have several channels for tapping global markets.

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The Order Fulfillment Process in 2022 and Beyond

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Why should retailers care about their Order Fulfillment Process? Order fulfillment may seem like a fairly straightforward process and according to the generic “high-level” definition, it is. In today’s market, putting the right fulfillment system in place gets you a competitive edge. What is order fulfillment?

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Inside Walmart’s Expanding Last Mile Strategy: Employee Empowerment, Automation and Sustainability

Retail TouchPoints

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.