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How Speeding up Chargeback Resolutions can Boost Retailers’ Profits

Retail TouchPoints

It would fulfill and ship out orders only for them to be reported weeks or months later as fraudulent, ultimately saddling this brand with both the loss of goods and chargeback fees. Mittal joined Mastercard in 2014. Originally, the retailer was experiencing thousands of chargebacks every month.

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Clean Data, Clean Planet: How Online Retailers can use Data Analytics to Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

Retail TouchPoints

Operational efficiency in ecommerce has never been more important. The acceleration of the digital economy has led to technological innovation in many aspects of retail operations. Shipping companies can obtain information through GPS tags to help locate containers and ships in real time.

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How Brands Can Deliver Sustainable Instant Commerce for Consumers

Retail TouchPoints

Traditional logistics networks weren’t built to handle such breakneck delivery speeds, and retailers are left trying to meet consumers’ expectations while facing ever-rising environmental impacts due to emissions-heavy overnight air shipping, cardboard overuse and even more delivery trucks clogging up city streets and spewing exhaust.

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How Does Amazon Make Money? [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Operating income 2016: $4.2 Failure is an option: Amazon Fire Phone fizzled out in 2014―instead of giving up, Amazon has since launched Amazon Echo and other successful tech. 2014: $89 billion. Operating Expenses. Operating Expenses. Operating income. 2014: $178 million. That’s only 4% of total sales!

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Best Platform to Sell Online in 2020: An In-Depth Analysis

Ecommerce Platforms

Whereas a standard website platform/builder has features for adding pages and posts and menus, an ecommerce platform takes it a step further by including product management, shipping tools, payment processing, and more. Fulfillment options – A few platforms provide their own fulfillment solutions, but it's not that common.

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From Barcodes to Bytes: Retailers Prepare for Next-Generation UPC

Retail TouchPoints

And in 2014, Inditex SA, which owns fast-fashion giant Zara, implemented RFID to effectively track all its products at every step in the process. Walmart mandated that its suppliers put it on products by 2022, which has made a big impact on RFID adoption. The first company to use 2D barcodes in U.S. stores is Puma.

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Ecommerce Shipping: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Shipping Profitability

BigCommerce

Putting an effective ecommerce shipping strategy in place is one of the most impactful steps you can take to grow your business online. Of course, while shipping can be a powerful point of differentiation for your brand, it’s important to make sure that your company can actually act on the strategy. Ecommerce Shipping Best Practices.