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Q4 Roundup: Amazon and Target’s Success Spotlights Fulfillment Prowess, Stores or no Stores

Retail TouchPoints

Fulfillment was a key driver during the ecommerce-driven final quarter of 2020. Amazon in particular invested more than $60 billion in shipping alone in 2020, helping it maintain blazing fast delivery times, but O’Shea believes its lack of a significant physical store footprint will cause it to lag behind the competition to some degree.

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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? billion in 2023 — accounting for 8.5% Reducing the costs of online fulfillment and returns will be a key focus in doing so. of total retail sales.

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The Secret Behind Quick-Turn Merch: A Strong Partner

Retail TouchPoints

How do these brands turn around these drops so quickly? While you may not be shipping products worldwide, the benefit of an international company is its extensive network of suppliers, sourcing and tools. Additionally, a proven track record of successful products (especially with a quick-turn drop) is essential.

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TikTok Shop Partners with Royal Mail for ‘Click and Drop’ Service for Merchants

365 Retail

For the first time, merchants can integrate Royal Mail’s Click & Drop service with their TikTok Shop account, enabling them to arrange shipments and get orders delivered to customers quickly and efficiently. Click & Drop is Royal Mail’s primary shipping solution.

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How Lore of the Sea improved order dispatch speed by 1000 per cent

Inside Retail

Sustainable women’s surfwear brand, Lore of the Sea, found its beginnings when founder, Laure Mayer, noticed a gap in the Australian surfwear market. Soon after launching, Laure realised that fulfiling orders came with its challenges. And as a one-woman show, finding a way to maximise her time was a necessary step toward success.

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Have Temu and Shein Thwarted Wish’s Hopes of a Comeback?

Retail TouchPoints

And Wish, which held that top spot back in 2018, has now dropped out of the top 50 completely after having fallen to #35 as of last March. There are other troublesome indicators for the company: Q2 saw declines across the board at Wish. The trade-off is long shipping times, another thing Wish is working hard to improve.

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Three senior retail leaders weigh in on the state of supply chains in 2023

Inside Retail

Looking back, the pandemic highlighted the importance of having robust and flexible supply chains, and retailers have been forced to rethink their supply chain strategies and invest in new technologies to be dynamic, nimble and agile to evolving market conditions. One example is Havaianas.