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Walmart Debuts In-Store Parcel Stations to Speed Delivery

Retail TouchPoints

Walmart has introduced parcel stations — essentially mini “post offices” designed to streamline stores’ receiving and delivering of orders — and will have them operating in more than 40 stores by the end of 2023. Parcel stations help us move goods even faster to a customer’s home by using our private fleet to transport more online orders.

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Walmart Debuts Second In-Store Fulfillment Center in Bentonville

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Walmart has opened an in-store Market Fulfillment Center (MFC) at Store 100 in its home town of Bentonville, Ark. MFCs will significantly increase the number of orders a store can fulfill in a day, according to a Walmart blog post , providing faster fulfillment with less substitutions and freeing up associates to help in-store customers.

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Walmart Acquires Robotics Company to Boost Next-Gen Fulfillment Capabilities

Retail TouchPoints

Walmart has entered an agreement to acquire Alert Innovation , a robotics automation company that develops material-handling technology for automating order fulfillment in retail supply chains. Walmart has been working with Alert to customize technology for its market fulfillment centers (MFCs) since 2016. in a blog post. “We

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Non-Alcoholic Brand Boisson Files for Bankruptcy Protection, Closes all Stores

Retail TouchPoints

Boisson has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and shuttered its eight brick-and-mortar stores, according to multiple media reports and a LinkedIn blog post by Boisson founder Nicholas Bodkins. The non-alcoholic (NA) beverage brand plans to continue operating as a wholesaler and a DTC ecommerce retailer.

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Grocery Delivery Competition Heats Up with Faster Service, Extended Hours

Retail TouchPoints

Flash delivery orders will be delivered within a 30- to 50-minute window, while pickups will be ready in 30 minutes or less. Members of the retailer’s FreshPass program will get free Flash pickup service and a discounted Flash delivery fee of $2 per order. per order, or delivery for $11.95 and Canada at Uber in a statement.

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Amazon Debuts Next-Generation Drone Design and Fulfillment Robot

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“To sustainably deliver a vast selection of items in under an hour , and eventually within 30 minutes, at scale, drones are the most effective path to success,” reads a company blog post about the new MK30 drone. New Fulfillment Robot: Sparrow.

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Five trends shaping e-grocery fulfilment this year

Inside Retail

Based on customer insights and market trends, Swisslog, as an industry leader with successful micro fulfilment centres (MFCs) and e-grocery fulfilment centres (EFCs) operating across the globe, has identified five trends that will shape e-grocery fulfilment this year. E-grocery orders get smaller and more frequent. .