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5 Strategies to Optimize the Online Integration of Your Grocery Store

Retail TouchPoints

To keep up with this demand and consumer expectations, grocers will have to invest in the right forward-looking technology to evolve omnichannel offerings to meet customer needs. With that in mind, here is a look at five strategies that can help grocers optimize online integration of their grocery store.

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Inside Walmart’s Expanding Last Mile Strategy: Employee Empowerment, Automation and Sustainability

Retail TouchPoints

Consumers’ continued reliance on omnichannel fulfillment has created new opportunities for industry giants like Walmart to differentiate and gain market share. comparable sales growth and growing market share in grocery during Q4 2021, and much of this success can be attributed to its robust last mile and fulfillment strategy.

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From Barcodes to Bytes: Retailers Prepare for Next-Generation UPC

Retail TouchPoints

Get ready, get excited, retailers and customers alike, the 2D barcode, a compact square label with splotches and spaces that encode up to 350X more data than a traditional UPC (4,000 characters) will have a significant impact on managing the business and delivering better customer experiences. Who doesn’t want that?

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Navigating Delivery Disruption: 3 Questions Retailers Need to Answer

Retail TouchPoints

The last mile has become a more crucial part of the entire customer experience, particularly the delivery portion. In fact, 42% of consumers now expect two-day shipping for every online purchase they make, and 77% are more likely to purchase an item if it can be delivered in two days or less, according to Ware2Go research.

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Marks & Spencer’s Turnaround Strategy, Why it’s Working

Indigo 9 Digital

Marks & Spencer has said it started out with third party brands flowing through its distribution network but it is planning to give sellers the flexibility to use a drop ship model where the brand holds onto its inventory and fulfills the order itself. “M&S’s This is especially the case with Jaeger,” said an industry veteran.

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Long Distance Loyalty : How Retailers can Build and Grow Customer Relationships at Pickup and Delivery

Retail TouchPoints

An unintended, and likely under-planned-for, consequence for both retailers and their customers, however, is the erosion of the customer experience. As retailers and grocers continue to prioritize the operational and transactional elements of pickup and delivery, the importance of these touchpoints will continue to grow.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 269 – Amazon and Instacart get new CEOs, other news

Retail Geek

Jeff Bezos steps down Amazon offers it’s multi-channel fulfillment (MCF) to Big Commerce customers. Jason: [4:20] Yeah no I think your speculation is probably spot-on you know groceries a tough business to make money like in way instacart isn’t really a grocer that are. Amazon News. Other News.