Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

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.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2020

Consumer-friendly and flexible return policies can be the difference between getting a new customer and losing a sale. Furthermore, 56% of consumers report buy online/return in-store (BORIS) options to be very important, while 72% of consumers report the ability to initiate returns online to be very important to their purchasing decision.

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A1 Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Shipping delays significantly impact retailers and consumers, leading to frustrations that can ultimately result in revenue losses and drops in customer retention. At a time when merchants are looking to cut costs to remain competitive, delivery disruption is a headache they really don’t need, but something they can’t ignore.

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Retail Minded

MARCH 31, 2021

In our research , we found that 65% of consumers will be buying online more frequently over the next 12 months, with 20% telling us they’re expected to only buy online within 5 years. Delivery reliability has created a crisis of confidence amongst some consumers. Ecommerce today is booming, catapulting online stores to new heights.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Supply chain issues, inflation and other economic headwinds that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine are still present for merchants. The current economic environment has driven consumers to be more budget conscious and price sensitive as inflation pushes up the cost of living and products’ prices.

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Retail Geek

DECEMBER 7, 2020

ShipBob is a third party logistics provider that offers e-commerce fulfillment for thousands of brands. They are able to see the carrier shipping performance for all those clients and provide aggregate data that gives us insight into holiday shipping performance, also known as #shipageddon.

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Hyken

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The holiday season is fast approaching, and you’re an online merchant expecting a large volume of orders to come through soon. But while you’re fulfilling orders, it’s imperative that you keep your customers in the loop on channels like email and SMS. That’s great news! Offer a good discount right away. Send next-level content.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 29, 2022

Another one we look at is like various credit worthiness and so like mortgage delinquencies is a good proxy for consumer health. The consumer confidence our roads before the consumers actual Financial Health our roads but spending tends to correlate with consumer confidence more than. percent so that. percent so that.

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Retail Geek

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Mark is an experienced Marketplace seller, and his current business Guardian Baseball is a hybrid seller selling both wholesale and owned brands direct to consumer from a Shopify site, and via multiple marketplaces including Amazon. Um during think my first year of high school sold baseball cards ironically and then.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 7, 2022

Jason : Made to Order apparel business > 9 figures Yes Retailer offers viable health alt insurance option to consumers No Grocery E-Com > 10% someone deploys(not pilots) MFC Yes Amazon Shopify Competitor (shipping solution) No Retail Media > $20B Yes. Yeah they’re serving a bunch of consumers yeah.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 29, 2023

Jason: [8:04] No I was just I was just thinking that they I assume they left it blank because the underwriters were out of practice. There’s also the others you can think of Jason there’s this one.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 4, 2023

It’s not looking super up to Mystic for, for retail so I was super curious to hear not only how Amazon did but what they’re what guidance they gave for Q3 and what they were seeing in terms of consumer spending because we do have this weird paradox. percent from last year so so. [5:15]

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

million, FY Merchant Solutions revenue grew 116% to $2B Shopify Expands Its Checkout System to Facebook and Instagram. Fourth-Quarter Revenue Grows 94% on GMV Growth of 99% Full-Year 2020 Revenue Grows 86% on GMV Growth of 96% FY Subscription Solutions revenue grew 41% to $908.8 Amazon news: Amazon acquires Seltz, a Shopify competitor.

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Retail Geek

MAY 6, 2024

Scot also outlines Amazon’s Q2 guidance and the potential impacts of consumer spending patterns on the retail sector, including concerns about changing consumer behaviors and economic pressures shaping market dynamics. And if you’re based in any of those cities, also drop me a line. Scot: [7:07] Cool. So it was fun.

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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. Richard Maicki. Keith Jelinek.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 2, 2021

It was the kind of “-geddon” that could be seen coming from a mile away — a perfect storm combining an ecommerce boom; retailers, fulfillment centers and shipping providers that were already stretched thin by a global pandemic; and the historically hectic holiday season looming. More Online Sales Means More Returns. The big driver?

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Store Growers

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

To be completely transparent I’ve long wanted to start my own online store and document the whole process. Because I have too many projects that never got off the ground, my main goal for those first days was to ship something. Shipping is the part that requires a HUGE amount of energy. Printing on demand service.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

The result — a suite of data insights tools called Walmart Luminate — is now being used regularly by Walmart merchants and suppliers under the banner of the company’s Data Ventures division. And we can look at that on a longitudinal basis, so how are consumer patterns changing? What are people buying? That tells us the “what.”

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Retail Geek

MARCH 11, 2022

eTail West Tradshow Amazon Stock Split Shopify Fulfillment Network eBay “The Vault” Twitter E-Commerce Pilot Retail Media Networks are on fire Inflation continues to rise. kind of smaller direct to Consumer Brands and I think those guys are right in the Wheelhouse of those impact so that absolutely was coming up.

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Retail Geek

MAY 9, 2023

Scot: [2:38] Who will we have it’s been a while since we dropped a pod because we both had spring breaks and then you’ve been traveling a bit so it’s great to be back. billion consumers a month, are going to chat. And it seems like consumers are continuing to embrace that.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 22, 2021

Installment Payments heat up – At least one company is acquired (Affirm, Afterpay, Klarna, QuadPay, Sizzle) Yes (IPO’s). Retailer offers viable health alt insurance option to consumers. Amazon Shopify Competitor (shipping solution). Shipping (Shopify) – launch own DSP. 2021 Predictions. spac/ipo?

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Retail Geek

APRIL 7, 2023

So that was interesting and then the to me the most geeky coolest thing of all although controversial is during the pandemic, the Brazilian government launched a government-sponsored instant payment system so I got. The thing that has grown a ton is you know shoptalk offers this Meetup service.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

You’re gonna end up making some ill-advised purchases and then it seems like everything drop ships from factories. post so they if you remember back in the day wish was like very slow shipping like to 26 weeks. Scot: [6:16] Should be over should be like part of the onboarding. on a Friday night you’re.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 11, 2021

Monoan makes it easy for consumers to natively purchase products that they have tried and loved during hospitality experiences. It was sort of combination of just being I was just consumed by this idea of like I was really frustrated. Marc Hostovsky , CEO of Monoan an innovative “Native Retail” concept.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Jason: [2:13] Yeah all that’s gone now it’s just a chunk of aluminium but I’m excited to get mine I have a little jealousy because I feel like we both ordered early on launch day and I think yours already shipped is that true. It was a rigorous process.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 28, 2021

A number of firms are acquiring, or some would say rolling up, brands that primarily distribute their products on Amazon using Fulfillment by Amazon. 3:16] Salesforce Effectiveness pricing products for fitting customer service. But we felt the content was valuable enough to publish the episode anyway.].

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Retail Geek

MAY 20, 2021

Yeah so they’re a fashion brand they’re a direct-to-consumer fashion brand I mentioned that they’re based in China. You know that didn’t have to close in April at all like they’re up 15% year-over-year largely because they they didn’t have as big a drop last year. [12:02] Um and shop for apparel. [3:41]

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 12, 2024

No Live Streaming Commerce Still not meaningful in US in 2023 (less than 5% of social commerce in US) Yes Jason Total Score: 3 of 5 Scot : Amazon uses this 2022 setback/slowdown/reversion to the mean for a public resetting of expectations, but behind the scenes they take share and raise the bar on shipping. Scot: [28:09] Yeah.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Want to learn about Amazon’s sneaky fulfillment advantage (Amazon Key for Business)? it’s pretty bad well Wall Street was freaked out and basically the stock went down 26 percent in one day today and that’s the biggest one-day drop ever. In 2021 total revenue was $31.16B growing at 32% Year over Year. Transcript.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Episode 297 is a recap of the GroceryShop trade show in Las Vegas, and the Consumer Brands Executive Summit in Colorado Springs. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Podcast RSS SoundCloud TuneIn iHeartRadio Google Play Music Overcast Pocket Casts Facebook. ? ? ? ? ?

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Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Overall spending in North America by consumers has remain robust which like has shown up in the Amazon earnings and shown up in the. Scot: [6:06] Yeah the other thing that’s interesting and I didn’t put this in the show notes just occurred to me both Android and Apple are seeing softness in their App Store revenues. [6:16]

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The second opportunity that resonated with me personally was the evolution of consumers looking for more sustainable consumption opportunities. And] with all this digitization, there are so many more small- and medium-sized merchants around the world that need to source to sell. and Canada), the UK, Australia and the U.A.E.,

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