Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

CEO Marvin Ellison, speaking during a recent conference call discussing the home improvement retailer’s Q3 financial results, revealed that Lowe’s is on track to change over its entire store base to this model by the end of 2023. The retailer’s legacy distribution model had stores operating as nodes in the fulfillment process.

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Wiser

AUGUST 25, 2020

On top of that, local and national governments will have their own guidelines and requirements for organizations at this time. Maybe you’re moving around registers to give people space or capping the number of occupants in your store. Perhaps you reduced your hours or installed hand sanitizer at the entrances.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It was at that point that putting the technology and operations in place to fulfill from an increasingly complex supply chain network embarked upon its next frontier. It was no longer enough to route orders to a handful of DCs and drop ship vendors.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Buy Online, Pickup In-Store (BOPIS) retail strategies offer enormous upside for retailers and customers alike. Instead of only shipping to customers’ homes, retailers let online customers shop from their local and online store’s inventory and pick up their orders from their closest brick-and-mortar location the same day.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 31, 2023

the issue is particularly acute in major cities in California, Oregon, Washington and New York, leading to retailers locking up most, if not all merchandise or removing stores altogether.” alone at $100 billion. While a problem across the U.S., IHL estimates the cost of ORC in the U.S.

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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.

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