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Freshmart Deploys Ecommerce and Fulfillment Solution

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Natural food products retailer Freshmart has adopted online sales and fulfillment solutions from eGrowcery. The customized system features a focus on fresh and prepared foods and fulfillment options including store pickup and integrated delivery.

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Walgreens Exec: Operational Excellence Makes 1-Hour Delivery Promise a Reality

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Any retailer that’s attempted to provide pickup and delivery services knows how fraught (not to mention expensive) they can be. Yet Walgreens has so much confidence in its ability to quickly pick and deliver orders that it’s now offering 30-minute store pickups and one-hour delivery, the latter with a money-back guarantee.

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David’s Bridal Lays Off 9,000 Workers, Files for Chapter 11

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The retailer’s stores will remain open and its ecommerce operations, including the Pearl by David’s platform and vendor marketplace, will continue operating during the proceedings. We have successfully modernized our marketing and customer interaction processes and driven our retail service levels to best in class.

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Retail Lessons From China: Innovation, Resilience And Recovery

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This applies not just to consumers but to workers returning to retail stores as well. From payments to delivery, processes have been scrutinised to reduce the need to touch people, products and PIN pads. With the largest livestreaming market in the world, China has cracked the code on how to integrate entertainment and commerce.

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AI in Retail: Optimizing Operations from Supply Chains to Employee Scheduling

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The newest generation of artificial intelligence (AI) would seem to be tailor-made for the behind-the-scenes operational complexity of today’s retail organization — and in many ways it is. Everything Comes Back to the Data As promising as AI can be in retail operations, it also carries risks.

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How 1,000-Store Russian Electronics Retailer Amped Up Online Sales 141%

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“As part of the ONE RETAIL approach, we combine a variety of consumer journeys into one and put our smartphone app at the center of the entire shopping process,” explained Ekaterina Sokolova, CFO of M.Video Eldorado Group in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “We Machine Learning-Powered Analytics Now Central to Demand Forecasting.

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Retail Trends in 2021 — Overcoming 2020’s Challenges

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Traditionally, the brick-and-mortar store delivered a fairly static and conventional experience to the customer. In addition, mall operators are being asked to convert empty commercial space into mini-fulfillment centers for retail tenants. Look for this to get messy as rezoning debates get heated. On-Demand Manufacturing.