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The Face-Off Between Amazon and ‘Alternative Marketplaces’ is Shaping the Next Era of Ecommerce

Retail TouchPoints

These costs include not just advertising (a crucial expenditure to stand out on Amazon’s crowded “shelves”) but also sales commissions and fulfillment services including warehousing, packing and delivery (which, while optional, are used by 86% of third-party sellers). We’ve made a lot of improvements on the platform.

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Aligning Purpose with Profits: How Consumer Goods Companies can Unlock Business Growth by Integrating Sustainability into their Operations

Retail TouchPoints

Harness Artificial Intelligence to assess, predict and obtain the insights needed to reduce waste and fulfill ethical imperatives. The use of predictive and prescriptive analytics and AI-powered demand sensing (69%) also are being used to improve inventory management and eliminate excess stock.

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How to Get Your Products in Walmart Marketplace

Kissmetrics

Walmart launched the marketplace back in 2009 to attract online shoppers and grow its customer base. There’s a major push towards attracting millennials with improved delivery options, increased brand diversity, and better customer service. You set your prices and fulfill orders, and you build your own brand. The bottom line?

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High growth e-cigarette brand opts for Brightpearl to light up multichannel expansion

365 Retail

Since they launched in 2009, Ecirette has experienced phenomenal success, growing from one of the first online vaping stores to one of Ireland’s leading e-cigarette brands. Ecirette turned to Brightpearl to streamline and automate its manual processes and support its big picture aims for multichannel expansion.

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The Stores Strike Back Again. Again.

Steve Dennis

Yet while the pervasively popular “retail apocalypse” narrative conveniently ignores the fact that many thousands of stores continue to open and that sales rung up in brick-and-mortar locations have grown every year since 2009, something far more interesting has actually been happening.

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How Rent the Runway Boosted Talent, Sustainability and CX by Moving to the Cloud

Retail TouchPoints

Rent the Runway pioneered clothing rental for women, but in 2009 the tech just didn’t exist for this kind of platform and all the reverse logistics we do, so everything was built from the ground up,” said Steinberg in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. It All Comes Back to Customer Experience.

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Winning with Walmart Marketplace

Profitero

The brick and mortar giant announced that online sales grew 97% during Q2 of 2020 and is investing right back into digital by increasing the number of online fulfillment centers, introducing Walmart advertising services, partnering with Shopify , and launching Walmart+ (a same-day delivery service that directly competes with Amazon’s Prime Now).