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Ulta Beauty, American Eagle Share How Supply Chain Investments Can Drive the Entire Company

Retail TouchPoints

Supply chain and last mile challenges have been grabbing headlines for months, and executives from Ulta Beauty , American Eagle and others shared their advice on how retailers can turn these troubles into opportunities at the Home Delivery World logistics conference.

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Amazon’s Counterintuitive Next Big Move — Helping Brands Sell Off Amazon

Retail TouchPoints

“For much of the history of retail, there have been significant barriers that put high hurdles in front of entrepreneurs who wanted to launch a new brand,” said Dharmesh Mehta, VP of Worldwide Selling Partner Services at Amazon during the third annual Accelerate conference for Amazon sellers. And it doesn’t stop at the transaction.

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Top 10 Sessions at eTail West 2018

Optimizely

If you’re anything like me when attending these types of conferences, you might feel a bit overwhelmed by all the different sessions (and end up choosing them at random on the morning the event starts). Brian Hovis, VP, Marketing of Full Price Business, Nordstrom. Here are the sessions we recommend for anyone in ecommerce today.

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Top 9 Sessions to See at Shoptalk 2018

Optimizely

But before you join 7,500 other attendees at the world’s largest conference for retail and ecommerce innovation, you have a few things you should plan first. Top brands are using chatbots to do everything from fielding customer service requests, to giving updates on shipping. Adam Goldenberg, Co-CEO, TechStyle Fashion Group.

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Alexa: Retail’s Next Friend.Or Foe?

RTP blog

million voice-powered devices will be shipped this year, leading to a total footprint of 33 million worldwide. Echo Look, for example, allows users to take photos and videos of their outfits and get a second opinion from Style Check, which combines machine learning algorithms and advice from real-life fashion experts.

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SUSTAINABILITY IS THE CHALLENGE OF OUR TIME FOR GLOBAL COMMERCE

RetailMinded

With almost every brand taking steps to become more sustainable, Manhattan’s Momentum 2022 customer conference tackled a number of these pressing questions head on: from environmentally responsible initiatives, to the practical elements of making global commerce (& the supply chains that fuel it) more sustainable.

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9 Provocative Retail Predictions for 2021

Steve Dennis

Just about everything—from how school and work get done, to how we exercise and attend industry conferences—is moving to some form of physical and digital hybrid. Yet, a rapidly growing percentage of what gets called “e-commerce” actually involves a store, given the growing role of ship-from-store, BOPIS and curbside pickup.

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