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Want to Cut the Cost of Fast Fulfillment? It All Starts with Inventory Placement

Retail TouchPoints

The problems with getting products to people quickly and cheaply are well-known: consumers want fast fulfillment, which is costly to provide, but they don’t want to pay high (or really any) shipping fees. Even Amazon , the trendsetter in fast fulfillment, isn’t immune to higher labor costs.

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Building Loyalty Without Breaking the Bottom Line: the Dual Shipping Dilemma for Ecommerce Merchants

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While this is good news for many ecommerce retailers, it has also become more and more expensive to deliver those goods to customers. That’s a huge volume of returns for retailers big and small, and these predictions show that that figure will likely remain steady through 2026. In addition to H&M and Zara, even retailers like L.L.

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E-Commerce is Changing: Reducing Friction and Increasing Agility are the Key

ChannelAdvisor

As Insider Intelligence’s global retail e-commerce forecast suggests, it is more important than ever for retailers and brands to find ways to be more agile and flexible in how they get products into consumers’ hands—and to do so while offering a positive experience with minimal friction.

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E-Commerce is Changing: Reducing Friction and Increasing Agility are the Key

ChannelAdvisor

As Insider Intelligence’s global retail e-commerce forecast suggests, it is more important than ever for retailers and brands to find ways to be more agile and flexible in how they get products into consumers’ hands—and to do so while offering a positive experience with minimal friction.

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Instacart Looks Beyond Delivery with Suite of Tools to Support Grocery’s Digital Transformation

Retail TouchPoints

Instacart already powers the ecommerce and fulfillment experience for hundreds of retailers across North America. Now the online grocery marketplace has launched a suite of technologies to help its partners continue their digital transformation with new fulfillment , advertising and insights capabilities.

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How Vintage Wine Estates is Uncorking New Opportunities in Alcohol Ecommerce

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The acquisition was driven in large part by CHW’s (and Kogan’s) digital prowess, and that has only become more important for Kogan over her last six years at Vintage Wines, a period when alcohol ecommerce has steadily gained traction. It’s the norm for Coke; it’s the norm for Yoplait — it’s not the norm for us.”

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Store Management Costs in the Era of Ecommerce

Retail TouchPoints

Then in 2021, grocery ecommerce sales reached 9.5% in 2022 and 2026 respectively. The sign is clear — ecommerce is here to stay. Food retail demand has become fractured across multiple channels, with traditional brick-and-mortar formats losing out to the online medium. In 2019, online grocery accounted for 6.3% and then 20.5%