Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Labor shortages, stressed supply chains and a major emphasis on ecommerce have turned fulfillment into one of the biggest challenges retailers will face in the 2021 holiday season. With so much at stake, retailers must get fulfillment right or risk being left behind.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2021

Many retailers are already experiencing increased tariffs and supply chain snags , putting customer satisfaction at jeopardy. To overcome supply chain disruptions, many online retailers are already making changes to their existing fulfilment operations. Multi-node fulfilment offers additional benefits.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 21, 2020

11 Fulfillment And Delivery Centers To Open In Metro Phoenix. Amazon plans to open 11 new sites to support customer fulfillment and delivery operations in metropolitan Phoenix by the end of 2020, creating more than 3,000 full- and part-time jobs. An additional cross-dock facility is scheduled to open in the city in 2021.

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Ecommerce Platforms

AUGUST 23, 2021

The Shopify Fulfillment Network is Shopify ‘s version of a 3PL (third-party logistics) company. Merchants still partner with a third-party, but there's no need to manage multiple dashboards or billing accounts, seeing as how your Shopify account is handled in the same invoice and dashboard as the Shopify Fulfillment.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 23, 2021

billion , will accelerate the companies’ shared autonomous supply chain mission, which aims to help companies utilize predictive business insights to pivot their operations in real time through the combined power of AI/ML and IoT and edge devices. The deal, which values Blue Yonder at $8.5

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2023

No one will forget the year 2020 — 2021, or 2022 for that matter. The years when the pandemic toppled the global supply chain, forcing retailers to find ways to minimize the effects of disruption while managing unprecedented online shopping behavior — piecing things together however they could.

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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.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2020

At the store level, the funds will go toward: Renovations to nearly one-third of its locations; Expansion of curbside pickup ; Piloting “micro fulfillment centers” within supercenters to speed up fulfillment of pickup and delivery orders ; and Deploying digitization, robotics and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to make stores smarter.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

We’re going to skip any in-depth discussion of consumers’ ever-warming embrace of online shopping because it feels more “established than trending,” and because with limited space we want to cover what we believe are more intriguing developments for supply chain professionals. First, the role of the traditional retail store has changed.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Called Ankaa Gl o bal Logistics , the new 3PL company will be operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of Southern Glazer’s. Our team brings decades of beverage alcohol supply chain experience to the table,” said Bobby Burg, SVP and Chief Supply Chain Officer at Southern Glazer’s in a statement. “We glass, cardboard, etc.),

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2021

However, there will still be plenty of opportunity as well, particularly for retailers with strong last mile offerings, solid social media presences and a knack for bringing people together, according to Salesforce’s 2021 holiday projections. Rising Costs Will Reverberate from Suppliers to Retailers to Consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

stores, to distribution center-based fulfillment of large items like riding mowers, grills and furniture. The retailer’s legacy distribution model had stores operating as nodes in the fulfillment process. Lowe’s kicked off the transition to the market delivery model in 2021 in its Florida and Ohio Valley regions.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 20, 2021

So what does a retailer do when supply chains are stopped up, slow or just plain broken — and they don’t even have reliable information on exactly when items will arrive? Address Supply Chain Challenges with Better Demand Data. Supply chain problems are inextricably linked with demand changes, which themselves have been dramatic.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Rural lifestyle retailer Tractor Supply has added on-demand delivery from nearly 2,000 of its stores across the country in a partnership with DoorDash. Customers using the DoorDash marketplace can now get Tractor Supply offerings in categories including farm and ranch, home improvement and lawn and garden delivered to them.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about some of the most dramatic supply chain disruptions in living memory. alone, reports showed individual states resorting to bidding wars over scarce PPE and other essential medical supplies. In the U.S. Even before the pandemic, research showed that disruptive events are becoming more common.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2021

This surging demand has exposed fulfilment inefficiencies and sent retailers scrambling to power their delivery operations. Retailers now place a greater emphasis on the importance of agility, with 80% of retailers expecting moderate to major supply chain investment in 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Walmart has introduced parcel stations — essentially mini “post offices” designed to streamline stores’ receiving and delivering of orders — and will have them operating in more than 40 stores by the end of 2023. Many are operating now, in time for the holiday season, and Walmart plans to expand the stations to additional stores next year.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2021

Target will build off its 2020 momentum by investing $4 billion annually in new store openings, remodels for existing stores and supply chain upgrades over the next several years, the retailer announced during an earnings call. billion invested in operations during 2020. The figure represents a substantial increase from the $2.65

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Fabric

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Before the rise of omnichannel fulfillment , the act of someone handing you an order in your vehicle was mostly limited to drive-in restaurants and drive-thru windows. offered curbside pickup, but by the end of 2021, that number soared to a whopping 61.8%. It is now the company’s top-rated fulfillment service.

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Wiser

JUNE 5, 2023

As a small business owner, managing supply chain issues is nothing new. Because smaller retailers cannot always order in bulk or far in advance like many larger retailers do, any supply chain disruptions are often felt faster and stronger by small businesses.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Holiday hiring was also down year-over-year in 2022, with employers adding 519,400 jobs, a 26% decline from 2021. Toward Pay Increases Photo courtesy Amazon Amazon has opened more than 50 new fulfillment centers, delivery stations and same-day delivery sites in the U.S. Amazon: 250,000 + $1.3B

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2022

Clark stepped into the role in early 2021 following the departure of Jeff Wilke ; he had most recently served as SVP of Worldwide Operations. Clark’s career with Amazon began in May 1999 with the company’s Operations Pathways Program, which he joined immediately after graduation from his MBA program.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Despite having just officially begun, this holiday shopping season already is marked by supply chain disruption, persistent inflation and mixed consumer confidence. 31, 2021. “We’re with BNPL orders in 2021 up 44% compared to 2019 and 3% over 2020, according to the Adobe Digital Economy Index. “In

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 13, 2023

However, with retailers feeling more pressure to streamline omnichannel fulfillment, supply chain visibility has risen to the top of the priority list. How do you ensure that your supply chain is fungible enough to absorb the changes, and then pivot on that information? As a result, IDTechEx expects 39.3

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lateshipment

OCTOBER 25, 2021

There are more negative consequences of this supply chain crisis but before we look at them, let us find the answer to the question, what really is causing these logjams? . What is Causing This Supply Chain Crisis? Consumer goods demand is overall 22% higher compared with pre-pandemic levels (comparing February 2020 with August 2021).

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RetailMinded

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

2021 was unlike any other year in commerce history, pushing digitalization full speed ahead thanks to the pandemic forcing retailers to adapt to changes in consumption, channel shifts, supply chain, customer expectations and more. . Traditionally, retailers operated with batch driven processes in their warehouses.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2022

Consumers’ continued reliance on omnichannel fulfillment has created new opportunities for industry giants like Walmart to differentiate and gain market share. comparable sales growth and growing market share in grocery during Q4 2021, and much of this success can be attributed to its robust last mile and fulfillment strategy.

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Kibo

APRIL 16, 2021

Even after a massive shift to ecommerce in 2020, eMarketer predicts that 2021 will still see more than 14% ecommerce growth. A unified picture of inventory across every touchpoint supports flexible fulfillment options like BOPIS and curbside pickup. For the full list of strategies, download our 2021 Accelerated Commerce Guide.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 1, 2022

Online grocer Farmstead has partnered with convenience retailer Circle K to advance both business’ operation with new capabilities. food system, which requires new supply and technological alliances,” said Pradeep Elankumaran, Co-founder and CEO at Farmstead in a statement. We are in the early innings of significant change in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Kroger has kicked off a multi-year agreement to have Gatik AI ’s autonomous box trucks transport products from the retailer’s Dallas customer fulfillment center to multiple retail locations in the area. for multi-city deployments of autonomous delivery vehicles in September 2021. and Louisiana since late 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 21, 2021

Retail results for Q1 2021 have been promising so far, showing that the economy may finally be emerging from a long, slow year. Large retailers like Target and Walmart continued to thrive in Q1 2021 on the back of their large store footprints and strong omnichannel presence.

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Ecommerce Platforms

MARCH 4, 2021

All online stores need some sort of fulfillment. Whether that's self-fulfillment, third-party logistics, or dropshipping depends on the type of organization. We recommend looking into which style of fulfillment works for you as your business grows. The goal is to find a fulfillment partner near your primary customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Retailers and consumers alike are bracing for a holiday season much like the last — masks look set to remain a top stocking-stuffer; “supply chain” has a become a daily topic in mainstream media; and parents are gearing up for tears with the top toys of the year already predicted to go out of stock. A Tale of Two Types of Retailer.

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ChannelAdvisor

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The marketplace giant’s Prime program plays a starring role in day-to-day operations of brands and retailers of all shapes and sizes. Today we’re going to look at the two programs that give you access to those lucrative Prime shelves: Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) and Seller Fulfilled Prime (SFP). Fulfillment.

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lateshipment

JULY 9, 2021

How 2021 Has Looked so Far in Terms of eCommerce Retail. eCommerce trends in 2021 are expected to be in stark contrast with 2020 despite being heavily influenced by it. Supply chain restrictions are being countered – According to research , Order fulfillment (e.g., What to Expect in the 2021 Holiday Season.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Items will be fulfilled from Sephora’s 500+ U.S. Additionally, consumers can shop on Sephora’s website for same-day delivery powered by DoorDash Drive, the company’s white label fulfillment platform. As part of the new partnership, DoorDash has launched a Beauty tile on its home page. Items from U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

has partnered with Instacart to launch Kroger Delivery Now, a virtual convenience store fulfilled by Kroger that delivers fresh groceries and household essentials in as little as 30 minutes. Convenience orders on Instacart are up more than 150% since May 2021, and nearly 20% of shoppers choose Priority Delivery at checkout.

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