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Digitally Reinventing The Retail Store With Mobile

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Apple + IBM Partner ship The recent bankruptcies and shuttering of apparel brands such as The Limited, American Apparel and AĆ©ropostale, combined with declining sales at some brick-and-mortar stores, point to the demise of the physical store. By Rodney Bryant, ?Apple The benefits extend beyond the sales associate too.

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ShipStation Alternatives for 3PL and Shipping Success

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As one of the most popular shipping apps for ecommerce order fulfillment, ShipStation often gets recommended for managing shipments, finding great deals from carriers, and sending tracking codes. ShipStation is a shipping platform for ecommerce store owners to manage all parcel shipments and tracking in one dashboard. Toggle accordion.

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Amazon Anywhere Offers In-Game Shopping for Real-World Products

Retail TouchPoints

Amazon has debuted a new immersive shopping functionality called Amazon Anywhere that allows customers to discover and buy physical products from Amazon within virtual environments such as video games, augmented reality applications and mobile apps. Screenshot from Niantic’s new game, Peridot.

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How Bal Harbour Shopsā€™ Unique Traveling Mall Connects with Luxury Consumers

Retail TouchPoints

Finding a Way to Make a Mall Mobile While the ā€œwhyā€ may be relatively easy to articulate, the ā€œhowā€ has been the hard part. The team in Florida, looking for ways to expedite the expansion, was toying with the idea of using shipping containers as temporary shopping venues while parts of the expansion were being built out.

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Marine Layer Deploys Omnichannel Platform Chainwide

Retail TouchPoints

Casual apparel retailer Marine Layer has added features such as mobile checkout, endless aisle and ship-from-store as it seeks to offer a more seamless omnichannel experience across digital and physical channels. retail stores. ā€œOur So we made the decision last year to turn a very difficult year into an opportunity.

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Capturing the Growing Spending Power of Gen Z and Gen Alpha

Retail TouchPoints

For Kit Garton, VP of Product at DTC menā€™s swimwear and apparel brand Chubbies , being a ā€œdigital nativeā€ entails more than just growing up with the internet and your favorite celebrities all in the palm of your hands. ā€œIt The oldest members of Gen Alpha are [themselves] turning 13 , so they are beginning to influence household purchases.ā€

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The Future of Shopping: What to Expect in 2032

Retail TouchPoints

while other apparel and electronics retailers will trumpet order-to-pickup service times of under five minutes. Shipping capacity will continue to be constrained, and most packages will be delivered in two to three days to manage costs, but youā€™ll have easy choices for faster delivery.