Wed.Jan 06, 2021

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Walgreens Divests Wholesale Business for $6.5 Billion to Focus on Retail Offerings

Retail TouchPoints

Walgreens Boots Alliance will sell its Alliance Healthcare wholesale business to AmerisourceBergen Corporation for approximately $6.5 billion. The transaction will let Walgreens focus on its core retail pharmacy businesses, expand its offerings and accelerate progress on strategic priorities. Additionally, Boots and AmerisourceBergen will strengthen their strategic partnership by extending and expanding their commercial agreements.

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Winning with Customers at Curbside

Miller Zell

I enjoyed an opportunity recently to conduct a webinar for the International Signage Association on the rise of BOPIS (buy online, pick up in store) during the pandemic. We discussed the critical need for retailers to thoughtfully and strategically incorporate it into their complete customer experience.

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Emerald Acquires Outdoor and Sporting Goods-Focused B2B Purchasing Platform

Retail TouchPoints

Emerald Holding has completed its acquisition of PlumRiver LLC , an international provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology through its Elastic Suite solution. The Elastic Suite platform streamlines the wholesale buying process for both brands and retail buyers, offering a digital year-round transactional platform for use by Emerald’s customers.

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Inkloo – A Fashion Marketplace

I Love Fashion

Fashion Digital Marketing Agency. Inkloo is an online fashion marketplace endeavoring black-owned fashion brands to the enthusiasts who want to authenticate their wardrobe with captivating designer clothing. Founded by Dontaya Bobb, who has encountered a disconnect while entering the fashion industry and thus offering a perfect solution to the black designers for showcasing their brands while being an inclusive platform in the exclusive digital marketing in fashion industry.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Influencer Marketing – good or bad for your retail sales?

Retail Bound

Businesses are always looking for innovative ways to reach their customers. With an innovative marketing strategy, a business can improve brand recall leading to more customer loyalty and increased sales. Influencing marketing is one of the innovative strategies that brands have been using to reach and engage their customers. Studies show that close to seventy-five percent of marketers feel that influencer marketing is an effective way of driving quality traffic and leads, helping a brand increa

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Repsly in Review: 2020 Top Product Enhancements

RepslyBlog

While CPG brands across the globe were forced to re-examine the way they do business in light of the global pandemic, the Repsly team has stayed committed to continuing to improve our product and services in order to enable your field team to be as effective as possible in every key account. With that in mind, we’ve compiled a few of the top product enhancements that we rolled out in 2020 so you can make the most out of your investment in Repsly.

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Maintaining the retail omnichannel edge in 2021

Retail Technology Review

By Nate Burke, CEO of Diginius. It’s that time of year again where we reflect upon the prior year and make informative predictions for the months ahead in order to adjust our business activities and refocus our strategies.

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COVID-19 Legal Considerations for Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

With the rising number of positive COVID-19 cases throughout the United States, the “most wonderful time of the year” is becoming the “most dangerous time of the year” for retailers and their customers. After an already difficult and trying year, what do they need to know to keep their employees and customers safe while keeping their doors open? . First, as a bit of comfort, retailers should be aware that in many states, including Ohio, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma

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Exclusive Q&A: How Amazon’s Marketplace Disconnects Sellers from Their Customers

Retail TouchPoints

Jon Elder gives credit where it’s due: selling on the Amazon Marketplace and using Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) services offer brands enormous opportunities. (Of course, he may be prejudiced, having grown his own Amazon FBA business from scratch to $10 million in sales within five years.) The combination of access to many millions of potential customers and the warehousing, fulfillment and returns services bundled under FBA is a powerful one, according to Elder.

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Uber Direct Partners to Provide Same-Day Delivery for More Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers seeking to boost their delivery and fulfillment capabilities can now use a crowdsourcing option. Uber is working with delivery and fulfillment cloud platform provider Bringg in a partnership encompassing both the retail and B2B sectors. Retailers working with Bringg will now have seamless access to drivers through Uber Direct, enabling them to provide same-day and next-day delivery without sacrificing elements like branding, measurement, visibility or quality.

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Get MACH Ready: Preparing Your Business for Digital Transformation

Adopting MACH technology means more than implementing new platforms. This type of digital change affects your organization at every level and requires a thoughtful approach to navigate challenges that crop up. The Get MACH Ready report, co-authored by MACH Alliance member Scott Canney in collaboration with Orium, commercetools, and Contentstack, will provide you with strategies to prepare your organization for a digital transformation.