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Shein Picks Amazon’s Backyard for New U.S. Fulfillment Hub

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fulfilment and logistics, furthering the company’s ongoing effort to localize fulfillment and support speedier delivery times for American customers. Shein said it plans to hire more than 50 professionals to be based at the new location by the end of 2024, joining a growing U.S. Fulfillment and Logistics at Shein in a statement.

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Retailers Increasingly Turning to Third-Party Resources to Handle Fulfillment

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Store-based fulfillment of customer orders got an enormous boost during the COVID pandemic, when both curbside pickup and delivery offerings became survival tactics for so many retailers. Want to find out more about how retailers are meeting omnichannel and fulfillment challenges?

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Ross Stores Opens 40 New Locations, Fulfilling FY22 Growth Plans

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Ross Stores has opened 28 Ross Dress for Less and 12 dd’s DISCOUNTS locations across 21 states during September and October, meeting its forecasted growth of opening nearly 100 stores during FY 2022, which ends Jan. billion in Q1 2021 to $4.3 billion in Q1 2022, which prompted the retailer to revise its forecast for the remainder of the year.

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Goodwill Debuts Free E-Waste Recycling in 42 Pennsylvania Locations

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Goodwill Keystone Area has partnered with Reworld to offer no-cost electronics recycling at its 42 stores and donation center sites located across 22 central and southeastern Pennsylvania counties. The initiative was made possible by the Pennsylvania Recycling Markets Center.

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Coach CEO Q&A: New Las Vegas Fulfillment Center will Reduce Delivery Times by 50%+

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To better serve a growing legion of West Coast customers, Tapestry , parent company of brands including Coach and Kate Spade , opened its 788,000-square-foot North Las Vegas Fulfillment Center in November. Tapestry already operates a fulfillment center serving the East Coast located in Jacksonville, Fla.

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How CPGs Can Use Location Data to Spur Growth

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While recent market trends have led many consumers online, in-person retail remains the bedrock of the global economy. Unsurprisingly, then, location data is widely recognized as a valuable tool for unlocking growth. Among the businesses that most often use location data are consumer packaged goods brands.

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Want to Cut the Cost of Fast Fulfillment? It All Starts with Inventory Placement

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The problems with getting products to people quickly and cheaply are well-known: consumers want fast fulfillment, which is costly to provide, but they don’t want to pay high (or really any) shipping fees. Even Amazon , the trendsetter in fast fulfillment, isn’t immune to higher labor costs. in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.