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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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Competition between grocers, Amazon intensifies

Mass Relators

“By digital, we mean the Kroger seamless ecosystem we’ve built over the past few years to be able to deliver anything, anytime, anywhere regardless of channel, whether pickup, delivery or shipped,” he explained. Amazon recently confirmed plans to open four grocery stores on the East Coast. We will continue to build on this momentum.

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Shopping Center Outlook: Why Open Air, Mixed Use and Tech-First Locations Are Hot

Retail TouchPoints

As the new year approaches, retailers need to think about what their expansion plans will look like and how their stores can best serve customers. “I That means open air shopping centers have become even more attractive due to how they can make curbside and BOPIS fulfillment easier to handle.

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How Woodman’s Markets is Harnessing In-Store ‘Anti-COVID Robots’

Retail TouchPoints

Woodman’s Markets operates 230,000-square-foot stores with approximately 100,000 SKUs each, and like most grocers its inventory was hit hard by shoppers stocking up early in the pandemic. This data will be uploaded to its mobile shopping app, where it will guide pickers to each item to improve delivery times.

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CI&T Study: To Create Lean and Mean Demand Forecasts, Move to Real-Time Data Sharing

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers are forced to offer pricing schemes or promotional plans that are sub-optimal for themselves. RTP: Data sharing is a key recommendation that underlies this report. Why is this such an issue for both parties? Without a willingness to share data and become more strategic partners, the relationship-building process is an expensive one.

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How the Supply Chain Disruption Is Sparking Holiday Risk & Resilience

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Shipping delays. Trans-Pacific cargo ships face bottlenecks in major ports like Los Angeles, and these shipping delays threaten access to merchandise. As contingency plans, more executives are finding new vendor partners and sourcing domestically to keep their supply chains closer to home. Source: SEI. 2 Unglesbee, Ben.

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Navigating Delivery Disruption: 3 Questions Retailers Need to Answer

Retail TouchPoints

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. In a market map , CB Insights plotted more than 95 private companies alone that focus on the “last-mile delivery optimization” space.