Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2024

Zulily Group has engaged the advisory firm Gordon Brothers to sell off more than $85 million of inventory and the assets of its two fulfillment centers following the online retailer’s decision late last year to shut down. Screenshot of the Zulily website from December 2023 highlighting the going-out-of-business sale.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 5, 2023

Amazon is rolling out new AI-powered technology across its warehouses to detect damaged goods in a bid to decrease the number of damaged items sent to customers and speed up the fulfillment process, The Wall Street Journal reports. MIT Professor Dr. Yossi Sheffi, author of The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Looking ahead, we remain confident in our expansion plans and continue to see plenty of opportunity to grow to at least 2,900 Ross Dress for Less and 700 dd’s DISCOUNTS locations over time.” During Q2 2022, Dollar General opened 227 new stores, remodeled 533 locations and relocated 30 shops as part of its expansion plan.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Ebay, Australia’s second-largest online marketplace, is launching a fulfilment service for vendors opening the way for 40,000 local sellers to contract out deliveries. The program has been set up in partnership with the global logistics firm, Orange Connex, launching with two Sydney fulfilment centres.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 24, 2022

Asda, which operates 640 stores including supercenters, superstores and supermarkets, also will work with Bringg to upgrade its fulfillment capabilities. These investments align with the company’s intentions to strengthen its omnichannel strategy and a three-year plan to invest $1.3

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2024

The transaction excludes all of Zulily’s liabilities, liens and debts, as well as the company’s remaining inventory and two fulfillment centers, which advisory firm Gordon Brothers was engaged to sell off in late January 2024. plans to relaunch Overstock.com as a standalone site later this month. Beyond paid $4.5 Now Beyond, Inc.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2023

Sam’s Club is embarking on an ambitious expansion of its physical footprint, beginning with five new fulfillment and distribution centers opening this year — the first, in Georgia, in Q3 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The first new store concept recently opened outside of Houston, and Target plans to utilize the format in half of the 200 store remodels and almost all of the 30 new stores planned for 2023. The new design, which features a more open layout and localized elements, will also be incorporated into future remodels across the chain.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

including Amazon , Target and Macy’s , have announced their plans for holiday hiring, but all told this season may see one of lowest levels of seasonal hiring since 2008 , according to report by Challenger, Gray & Christmas shared with Reuters. In conjunction with its holiday hiring plans, Amazon also announced that it is investing $1.3

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2022

million-square-foot fulfillment center in China Grove, N.C., Once the automated direct-to-consumer fulfillment center is fully operational, the retailer said it will employ approximately 2,800 workers and account for 30% of Macy’s digital supply chain for customers nationwide. scheduled for completion in 2024. and Martinsburg, W.Va.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2022

Retailers who utilize Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) will be able to add Buy with Prime to their own checkout process, which will allow Prime members shopping there to utilize Amazon Pay and benefit from two-day shipping and free returns. Amazon plans to eventually offer the service to merchants who don’t sell on its marketplace or use FBA.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2021

Majid Al Futtaim , the exclusive franchisee of French hypermarket chain Carrefour in the United Arab Emirates, has opened a fully automated micro-fulfillment center (MFC) at the Carrefour store in Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 7, 2024

It noted the “substantial improvement” in profitability was driven by lower fulfilment costs and successful inventory management, which contributed to a 1.3% Both of our growth vectors are strong and contributing to results, demonstrating the strength of our plans.” adjusted group EBIT margin. to £1.89bn (€2.2bn).

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Inside Retail

JULY 13, 2021

Woolworths has announced plans for a new online fulfilment centre in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire, aiming to better serve the region spanning from Engadine to Kurnell – adding a further 15,000 potential customers to its home delivery and direct-to-boot pick up offers. An artist’s render of the site. Source: Supplied.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 20, 2023

Plans include opening new stores, strengthening its fulfillment network and enhancing its regional product offerings to better reflect the needs of customers in different parts of the country. ramp up our fulfillment capacities and make our offer even more relevant to local customers’ needs and dreams.” billion in its U.S.

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Retail Wire

JUNE 21, 2023

UPS workers have authorized a strike against the delivery service if negotiations between the Teamsters and the company fail to produce a deal on a new five-year labor contract. Workers are seeking better working conditions and a more significant cut of the company’s profits. UPS’s profits have risen $11.5

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In the pandemic’s wake, many retailers set up flexible fulfillment services in order to meet new safety guidelines and consumer requirements. Because of COVID, a lot of plans that were expected to take place over several years were immediately squeezed,” he explained in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 27, 2021

In an aim to increase speed and convenience for its customers, Walmart is scaling up the number of stores that also will serve as local fulfillment centers, adding dozens of locations with many more to come. Walmart piloted its first local fulfillment center in Salem, N.H., in late 2019. on the company’s corporate website.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

To this end, Loblaw partnered with Google Cloud to help scale up its operations — including the formation of a dedicated war room where Loblaw and Google engineers worked side by side to quickly come up with a plan. This is both in terms of our capacity to accept the increased demand for orders, as well as our ability to fulfill these orders.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2023

is betting big on going small, with plans to open up to 30 new small-format locations across the country in 2024. The planned expansion is in addition to the nearly 15 small-format stores that the retailer already operates. Macy’s Inc.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

These facilities are significantly smaller than traditional fulfillment centers but are designed to prepare items for immediate delivery — and Amazon is poised to expand from 45 same-day sites (as of 2019) to at least 150 in the next several years, according to MWPVL International. per package, compared to $1.75

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Mass Relators

JUNE 2, 2022

Walmart said it plans to build four next-generation fulfillment centers that, combined with its existing facilities, will let it offer 95% of the U.S. will use a combination of people, robotics and machine learning to make the fulfillment of online orders faster and more efficient, the company said. BENTONVILLE, Ark.

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Mass Relators

JUNE 20, 2022

Wal­mart says it plans to build four next-generation fulfillment centers that, combined with its existing facilities, will let it offer 95% of the U.S. will use a combination of people, robotics and machine learning to make the fulfillment of online orders faster and more efficient, the company says. BENTONVILLE, Ark.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The retailer also has signed leases for planned new stores in four locations: Potomac Mills in Woodbridge, Va.; The retailer currently operates 24 stores across nine states, with plans to create a 60 -store footprint in the U.S. Primark has opened it second U.S. distribution center, in Jacksonville, Fla., and Katy Mills in Katy, Texas.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Based on customer insights and market trends, Swisslog, as an industry leader with successful micro fulfilment centres (MFCs) and e-grocery fulfilment centres (EFCs) operating across the globe, has identified five trends that will shape e-grocery fulfilment this year. E-grocery orders get smaller and more frequent. .

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 23, 2022

Key priorities include an integrated future loyalty program under its Vital Care pet health plan and migrating more customers into subscription programs. Petco also plans to test opportunities in key locations for its “Small Town Rural” concept, designed to increase brand awareness in low-share markets. billion to $6.25

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 21, 2020

Amazon plans to invest $1.4 In Manhattan, where Amazon has acquired the Fifth Avenue building that previously housed Lord & Taylor , the company plans to accommodate approximately 2,000 workers in 630,000 square feet of new office space. 11 Fulfillment And Delivery Centers To Open In Metro Phoenix.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

Target has big plans for 2022, with the retailer announcing plans to invest up to $5 billion this year to open new stores, enhance its digital, fulfillment and supply chain capabilities, and expand its shop-in-shop concept with Ulta Beauty. and New York’s Times Square.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 21, 2023

Ikea is planning to invest more than US$2.2 According to Ikea, this is the company’s largest investment in the US in four decades, and it will focus on creating new stores and expanding fulfilment networks to serve more Americans. billion expansion plan appeared first on Inside Retail. The post Ikea unveils US$2.2

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2023

Walmart plans to introduce automation at nearly two-thirds of its stores and aims to have approximately 55 % of its fulfillment center volume move through automated facilities by the end of fiscal 2026. Expected benefits include improvements to in-stock rates , inventory accuracy and flow across stores, pickup services and delivery.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 5, 2024

MV: In recent years, we have invested heavily in our journey as an innovative omnichannel retailer, opening Plan and Order Point locations in Greater Melbourne and Sydney, enabling us to be exactly where our customers need us to be, which is a key part of our growth strategy for Ikea in Australia.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2021

Amazon is planning to hire 75,000 additional employees across its fulfillment and logistics network in the U.S. In April 2020, Amazon beat back a unionization attempt by employees at one of its fulfillment centers in Alabama despite complaints about poor working conditions. and Canada.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 16, 2022

fulfillment centers. The company has approximately nine fulfillment centers servicing its two U.S. The delivery company is still investing in the region, which accounts for 90% of its business, with plans including further expansion through potential mergers and acquisitions. markets and about 200 worldwide.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Oculogx , an omnichannel order fulfillment solution provider, has launched a suite of products designed to improve order fulfillment speed and accuracy. Outline: A mobile order fulfillment application that can be used on employees’ own devices. Associates can communicate with the software through voice and gestures.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

net sales decline in Q4 2023, Tractor Supply still plans to open up to 95 brick-and-mortar stores in 2024, as well as complete its 10th distribution center. The retailer plans to open approximately 80 Tractor Supply stores and 10 to 15 stores under its small-box pet supply banner, Petsense by Tractor Supply.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 19, 2024

Furthermore, Loop can use a consolidator to aggregate inventory for return to Australia or re-fulfilling orders within the US – driving down a retailer’s costs even further. The post Planning to sell online in the US? Here are some tactics to ensure success appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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