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Innovate And Automate: How To Optimize Fulfillment In The E-Commerce Era

Retail TouchPoints

Similarly, the likes of Walmart and Target provide flexible fulfillment options like “buy online, pick up in-store” (BOPIS) paired with convenient curbside pickup. With such high standards set, other retailers must now keep up. However, many realize that their current fulfillment operations run too slowly to meet rising expectations.

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How Outsourcing Your Fulfillment Will Grow Your Business

Rangeme

Fulfillment is a broad term that encompasses every aspect of storing, packing, and shipping your goods. Choosing the right 3PL will give you more time to grow your brand and work on product development, rather than miscellaneous fulfillment tasks. What are the benefits of outsourcing your fulfillment? Where are you growing?

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More Private Label, Smaller Store Footprints: How COVID-19 Is Accelerating Existing Retail Trends

Retail TouchPoints

The pandemic also may accelerate retailers’ embrace of smaller stores located closer to shoppers’ homes. Retail was already shrinking in terms of floorspace: total square footage dropped by 4.4%. Retail was already shrinking in terms of floorspace: total square footage dropped by 4.4%.

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Retail’s Future is Phygital

Retail TouchPoints

Apps that allow shoppers to preview and locate in-store inventory, do virtual try-ons, identify sales and cash in on personalized promotions and rewards are popular. Personalization is also a key retail trend, and phygital approaches provide opportunities for a new level of tailored experiences.

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The Logistical Nightmare Before Christmas: How to Avoid it

Retail TouchPoints

According to CommerceHub’s COVID-19 Consumer Retail Trends: 6 Months Later Survey , 33% of consumers are using sites like Walmart, Target and Home Depot to do their shopping instead of Amazon due to out-of-stocks and delayed shipping times.

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Key Takeaways From the Wiser Industry Leaders Brand Panel: Sales Strategy and Technology

Wiser

Adjust Retail Execution for Maximum Impact : Understand the nuances of high-end and outlet store dynamics to tailor retail execution. Data indicates that online grocery pickup garners higher average sales per trip, emphasizing the significance of this shopping method.

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Retail Trends in 2021 — Overcoming 2020’s Challenges

Retail TouchPoints

Now the store is viewed as a flexible asset, capable of fulfilling a variety of needs: Distribution center supplying inventory to other locations Ecommerce fulfillment Amazon return hub Curbside pickup Private bubble/pod shopping location Retooled for more buying, less shopping Emphasis on health and safety, contactless shopping.