Retail Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Starbucks is adding a new internal feature that can be used to halt mobile orders.

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JANUARY 13, 2023

The Afresh Technologies predictive ordering platform will power forecasting, inventory and store operations, providing department managers with easy-to-use ordering tools that leverage real-time insights.

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Retail Wire

JULY 10, 2023

Some Costco stores have started asking Instacart shoppers to wait for orders offsite, according to interviews with shoppers and a review of Reddit posts and discussions on the policy. Instacart does not require shoppers to wait in a store’s parking lot to be eligible for an order, but it does tell its contractors that they.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 19, 2023

13 that has affected its ability to fulfill orders on time — a major challenge at any time, but one that’s particularly fraught so close to the Christmas holidays. detected a data breach on Dec. 15 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Shoppers can place orders and have their food and beverages delivered to them alongside their other items. . Starbucks orders can be placed after the Target customer receives confirmation that their standard order is ready.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

A federal judge has reportedly ordered Amazon to stop retaliating against employees engaged in workplace activism, according to the Associated Press. She issued a cease-and-desist order against Amazon, directing it to not retaliate against employees involved in workplace activism, but denied the request to reinstate Bryson.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Ikea will open a Plan and Order Point as its third store in the Dallas-Fort Worth market on Nov. 29, 2023, offering design consultations as well as a location where customers can pick up their online orders. omnichannel operations, including opening nine Plan and Order Point locations. in a statement. “Our

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Australians ordered over 1 billion parcels during 2020, a first for the country, according to the latest Pitney Bowes parcel shipping index. The post Australians ordered 1 billion parcels in 2020 appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 18, 2024

Deliveroo saw a return to growth in orders in its first quarter as it heralded a good start to the year. The team has been relentlessly focussed on delivering service and value for money, helping drive a return to order growth and continued growth in GTV.” Click here to sign up to Retail Gazette‘s free daily email newsletter

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Hot Topic has partnered with Signifyd to revamp its online order approval process and reduce false declines. The retailer’s recent ecommerce growth has been hampered by its manual fraud review process, which was time-consuming and resulted in too many mistaken rejections of legitimate orders.

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Retail Wire

MARCH 2, 2023

A federal administrative judge has ordered Starbucks to reopen closed stores and to reimburse back pay and pay damages to employees who lost jobs due to union organizing. Judge Michael A. Rosas wrote that Starbucks acted with “a general disregard for the employees’ fundamental rights” as guaranteed under federal labor law.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2021

Developed in partnership with Takeoff Technologies , the digitized storage picking facility automates the task of managing orders: All orders can be prepared within five minutes, and the average time between order placement and dispatch has been cut in half.

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Retail Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Starbucks executives reported that a higher number of customers are ordering food along with their drinks, with two in every five customers adding food to their orders. Breakfast sandwich sales hit a record high, surpassing a previous record set in the prior quarter.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2022

Uber is expanding Uber Eats’ services with new features such as the ability to place orders when grocery stores aren’t open for later delivery, live tracking of orders from store to door and easier product replacements. The improvements will start in select cities before rolling out across the country throughout the summer.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 17, 2024

Ikea , which debuted its Plan and Order Point store format in Dallas in November 2023 , will add four additional locations this year, with more to follow. Smaller than traditional Ikea brick-and-mortar locations, these stores offer design consultations and serve as customer pickup points.

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Inside Retail

JULY 7, 2021

“One of the biggest challenges with order fulfilment software is that it is usually made for the US market and as a result generally works with one main courier, such as Australia Post, and doesn’t connect with other local couriers, such as Aramex AU, CouriersPlease, or Sendle. You can also sign up for a free trial with ShipStation.

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Retail Wire

MAY 26, 2023

Temu is putting the arm on suppliers to reduce the costs of goods sold on its platform and it still loses an average of $30 an order even as it takes advantage of a loophole that allows up to $800 in duty-free shipments coming into the U.S.

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Star Miconics

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Online ordering from apps like DoorDash, Grubhub, and Uber Eats has revolutionized the restaurant and QSR industries, transitioning from a mere convenience to a critical survival tool, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Discover the key advantages that position online ordering as an integral part of the contemporary culinary scene.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 25, 2021

Faced with a rapidly escalating spread of the new Delta variant of the Covid-19 virus, the NSW State Government on Saturday ordered a two-week stay-at-home order from 6pm through to July 9. . The order affects Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, Central Coast and Wollongong.

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Retail Wire

APRIL 4, 2023

Retailers are trying to eliminate oversized boxes to ship online orders. Amazon, Walmart and others are turning to machines that custom-create packaging that fits precisely what is being sent. There’s only so much room in the vehicles. There’s only so many vehicles available,” said John Blake, an analyst at Gartner.

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Retail Wire

JULY 22, 2022

Uber has updated its delivery service offering to allow customers to place orders from grocery stores after hours, schedule deliveries and track their orders from the store to their door.

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2021

Angus Nardi, executive director of SCCA said shopping centre and retail staff often find themselves the subject of abuse for simply reminding people to follow government health orders, such as wearing a face mask or using a QR Code check-in before entering a store.

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Inside Retail

JULY 26, 2022

Its distribution warehouse is located in Port Melbourne and the business’ website says orders will “typically” arrive within the estimated shipping timeframes. The post Online appliance retailer probed after orders go unfulfilled appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Retail Wire

APRIL 11, 2023

Drivers and passengers can now place orders at Domino’s through the Apple CarPlay system in their vehicles. “We know how frustrating it can be to wait in a [fast food] drive-thru line just to place an order,” Domino’s SVP chief digital officer Christopher Thomas-Moore said. ” .

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Inside Retail

JULY 19, 2022

Redbubble has been ordered to fork out $78,000 to the Hells Angels for using its logo without permission, the second copyright case brought against the online marketplace in the last three years by the motorcycle club. The post Redbubble may appeal court order to pay Hells Angels for using logo appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 13, 2022

During testing that included a soft launch of the technology earlier in 2022, Hollister discovered that customers who shared their carts through Share2Pay placed orders at almost 2X the rate of other shoppers. The technology sends a text message to the party who will actually pay for the items with an alert that an order is waiting.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 11, 2022

Instacart has launched a rewards program for its employees, called Shoppers, which offers workers incentives from both Instacart and third-party partners based on the number of orders picked and delivered. In testing, customers who saw a top Shopper badge on a Shopper’s profile were more likely to leave a higher rating and a higher tip.

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Retail Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Walmart customers may soon be paying more for items that are substituted for out-of-stock items in their online orders. Customers and members will receive updates about this change in the Walmart app at various points in their shopping experience,” the company said in a memo obtained by Business Insider.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 16, 2022

The new “add past order” feature allows users to rent, resell or recycle their previous purchases with one click. The ‘add past orders’ feature is available for The Iconic customers across Australia and New Zealand. The post The Iconic helps customers resell past orders, with AirRobe appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Retail Dive

JANUARY 19, 2024

The locations, which also serve as pick-up points for online orders, come as the retailer invests billions into its physical store fleet.

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Small Biz Trends

JULY 21, 2022

Purchase orders are piled-up, and there is a shortage of money to buy goods from suppliers to fulfill orders. If it does, then purchase order financing or PO financing is just the solution to quickly get the much-needed money to fulfill those orders. What Is Purchase Order Financing? Does it sound relatable?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Roaming Hunger , an online marketplace that connects food trucks with events and brands, has partnered with Sleek , a skip-the-line solution provider, to launch an online ordering system for mobile food businesses. Mobile businesses will now be able to take orders in advance even if they serve multiple locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 29, 2021

As more customers shifted their shopping online during the pandemic and demand for services like buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS) increased, ACFC rolled out its new Magento ecommerce platform and integrated it with Retail Pro Prism POS retail management software to more efficiently manage inventory and orders across its network of brands.

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Star Miconics

MARCH 8, 2024

Statista reports that online food delivery orders worldwide are projected to reach $1.22 Restaurants must fulfill orders placed online through their websites or apps and third-party delivery services in addition to orders at the table, counter, drive-thru, or self-service kiosks. Statista analysts estimate that 27.4%

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