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Gift Card Purchases Up 414% as Americans Shift to ‘Buy Now, Shop Later’ Mindset

Retail TouchPoints

Gift cards are shaping up to be a holiday hero this season, as consumers and retailers continue to grapple with supply and shipping issues. Combine that with concerns about shipping delays for those products that are in stock and it should come as no big surprise that gift cards are looking pretty good to shoppers this year.

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Overcoming Labor Shortages in Logistics with Robotics and Automation to Deliver on Market Expectations

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By 2025, the value is said to reach well over $1.2 From parcel sorting, order picking, palletizing and shipping, repetitive and time-consuming tasks to ship orders from the warehouse are increasing. Not only this, but order sorting and accuracy of parcel shipments will improve.

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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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3 reasons why Home Improvement brands must put the hammer down on eCommerce

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Part 1 of a 3-part series on Accelerating Growth Online: Tools & Home Improvement. Not more than a few years ago, industry pundits thought the tools & home improvement category would be immune to eCommerce. Everyone believed home improvement products — like roofing, flooring, paint, etc. were too powerful.

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How to Launch a Subscription Box For Your Company

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billion by 2025. Improved Demand Forecasting. The result should be improved inventory management. Assess what works and what they could improve on. Determine a Shipping Process. You can either handle the shipping in-house or outsource your shipping to a partner. Handle Your Own Shipping.

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How to Translate Foot Traffic Into Digital Sales

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billion dollars by 2025, and your online business can benefit from this surge. Offer Free Shipping Discount Codes. One deal-breaker for consumers is shipping costs. Eighty-two percent of sh oppers hate them and prefer free shipping overpaid expedited options. How can I improve my foot traffic offline?

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How Businesses Can Use Emerging Technology To Extract Value From Social Media

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Primarily insights from social listening are used to identify trends, customer pain points, and sentiment analysis on similar topics, all of which can be used to make data-driven decisions for improvement. Social commerce retail earnings are predicted to reach nearly $80 billion by 2025 in the U.S. But it doesn’t have to be that way.