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The Fulfillment Lab Review: Is This the Fulfillment Solution for You?

Ecommerce Platforms

With so many fulfillment options on the market, how can businesses decide which offers the best overall service? In this article, we discuss one option worth considering: The Fulfillment Lab. However, I think they could benefit from being more transparent about their pricing.

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Seriously Silly Socks: Personalization + pick, pack, ship simplification.

BigCommerce

For building a personalized Build-a-Box tool that simultaneously reduced pick, pack and ship time –– saving time while making money. Year founded: 2012. Initially our process was manual and the customer needed to add a box to their basket and then add four pairs of socks as separate items, five items in total. Fulfilling.

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Due Diligence: Winning October Prime Day Prep Strategies

Retail TouchPoints

Don’t oversell products if you don’t have the supply to fulfill orders. What still needs to ship? Reach out to vendors if needed to fulfill any oversell orders, and then start loading up on inventory for the next big event — Black Friday will be here before you know it. What sold through? What is Amazon sitting on?

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Turning Retail Losses into Profits

Retail TouchPoints

Since 2012, the median EBITDA for publicly traded retailers was 9.8%, according to Deloitte. While brick-and-mortar stores continue to command 80% of global sales, a significant portion of retail CEOs are investing heavily in enhancing online shopping experiences. In 2019, it declined to 6.7% and modestly rebounded to 8.6%

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Scarred by the 2008 Recession and COVID, 48% of Gen Z Frequently Shops at Discount Stores

Retail TouchPoints

That sense of unease is to be expected from a cohort shaped by both the 2008-2009 Great Recession and the COVID pandemic, and it’s had a big impact on their shopping choices: nearly half ( 48% ) say they shop the most often at discount/off-price retailers, and 25% frequently patronize dollar stores.

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5 reasons CMOs should care about their commerce architecture

GetElastic

If the platform they’re running on can’t scale to meet these unexpected demands, businesses may lose customers before they’ve ever had the chance to really acquire them. Up-to-date inventory data means increased customer trust for BOPIS and online fulfillment. In a store, on a shelf, inventory is easy.

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Direct to Consumer Marketing: The Complete Guide

Ecommerce Platforms

Going direct-to-consumer has a lot of advantages as we've already seen in the introduction with competitive pricing being a huge one for consumers. So it won't be a best practice for direct-to-consumer brands to simply replicate the current customer experience. So Casper took a unique approach to the mattress industry.

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