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Is Your Fulfillment Strategy Healthy Enough to Keep Pace with Customer Expectations?

Retail TouchPoints

It was at that point that putting the technology and operations in place to fulfill from an increasingly complex supply chain network embarked upon its next frontier. It was no longer enough to route orders to a handful of DCs and drop ship vendors. Checking inventory in a local store but not placing an order?

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How Build-A-Bear’s Pandemic Shift Created Long-Term Omnichannel Opportunity

Retail TouchPoints

Over a four-week period, Build-A-Bear turned its store locations into micro-fulfillment centers so it could maintain store operations, keep associates working and create a bright spot for consumers navigating uncertainty and stress. Creating Joy Amid Uncertainty.

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How to Win in the Real-Time Holiday Retail Era

Retail TouchPoints

This enables a robust omnichannel retail strategy that delivers a unified, seamless and consistent customer experience across all physical stores, websites and mobile apps. Given this year’s supply chain and shipping challenges, synchronization of inventory and having immediate access to the latest data is a business imperative.

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Digital Transformation Propels Burton’s Omnichannel Growth Plans

Retail TouchPoints

The Burton name is on 66 stores in 10. The company owns and operates 34 locations, both flagships or outlets, and the remainder are owned and operated by partners such as high-end resorts. If a customer walks into a store and says, ‘My hands are full, ship it to me,’ that’s one experience we have to offer.

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Despite COVID, Spanish Retailer Rolls Out RFID Across 125 Stores in One Month

Retail TouchPoints

D Cloud RFID inventory-management software. The retailer can track stock levels at each store and warehouse in real time, enabling online stores to reflect accurate stock levels at all sites. Once the products are at the store, the tags can subsequently be read as part of scheduled inventory counts at that location.

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An Overview of how the BOPIS Retail Strategy is Transforming the Industry (2021)

Retalon

Instead of only shipping to customers’ homes, retailers let online customers shop from their local and online store’s inventory and pick up their orders from their closest brick-and-mortar location the same day. A retail fulfillment process that is known as BOPIS — Buy Online, Pickup In-Store. What is BOPIS?

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Why Do You Need Business Intelligence for Your Retail Business?

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Real-time product assortments and pricing are more likely to be automated, optimizing effort, time, and management of price updates. Optimize Inventory Management. Perhaps your customers will be swayed by a 10% off or free shipping code that appears in real-time when the customer hovers over the checkout button.