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Top 10 Contactless Trends to Watch in 2022

Retail TouchPoints

These and other benefits will feed “massive increases in groceries, soft goods and the hospitality sector” for mobile deployments, explained Buzek.

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Rite Aid in Delivery Deal with Grubhub; Uber Partnership Supports Delivery from 17,000 Neighborhood Stores

Retail TouchPoints

Additionally, National Retail Solutions (NRS) , which provides point-of-sale and other store management solutions for more than 17,000 bodegas and neighborhood convenience stores, is partnering with Uber Direct to support same-day delivery offerings. Uber Eats expanded ordering hours and live order tracking in July 2022 ; and.

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Every Retail Worker is Now a Supply Chain Worker

Retail TouchPoints

Shoppers increasingly want the convenience of online shopping and anywhere fulfillment. Retail workers traditionally occupied point-of-sale positions or customer services positions, but now they are central to the success of complex and sophisticated supply chain operations. .

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TikTok Shop Officially Debuts in the U.S.

Retail TouchPoints

in November 2022. We’ve been able to sell lots and lots and lots of products, to the point that TikTok is quickly becoming one of our larger [points of sale] ,” he shared in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. reads the company announcement.

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Top 10 Technology Investments Online Merchants In US Are Banking On For 2022

Retail Minded

63% of US brands plan to increase investment in retail software in 2022. Top 10 Investment Priorities For 2022. Order fulfillment (20%). Brightpearl’s ROS includes financial management, inventory and sales order management, purchasing and supplier management, CRM, fulfillment, warehouse and logistics.

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Walgreens Exec: Operational Excellence Makes 1-Hour Delivery Promise a Reality

Retail TouchPoints

But it’s how those stores operate that allows them to effectively serve as fulfillment hubs. Fast, efficient store fulfillment also made advances in Walgreens’ delivery services possible. “We It helps, of course, that Walgreens has an enviable store footprint: more than 8,800 stores nationwide, putting 78% of the U.S.

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Walmart Canada Will Invest $3.5 Billion To Modernize Stores, DCs And Supply Chain

Retail TouchPoints

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.