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It’s Official – Amazon is an Ecommerce Enabler First and a Retailer Second

Retail TouchPoints

Dharmesh Mehta, VP of Worldwide Selling Partner Services at Amazon , is celebrating his 10th anniversary with the company this year, and so he kicked off the fourth annual Amazon Accelerate conference for sellers by comparing the differences between the ecommerce platform today and 10 years ago.

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Top 10 Contactless Trends to Watch in 2022

Retail TouchPoints

“The desire is still there to do touchless, but for different reasons than COVID safety,” he said during a presentation at the 2021 retailX conference in Chicago. Retailers had wanted to do this before as a way to save on labor costs.”. trillion worldwide, equivalent to both 10.3% of all in-store sales and the GDP of Canada.

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Holiday Leftovers? Here are 4 Ways Sellers can Minimize Excess Inventory

Retail TouchPoints

For one thing, it can lead to increased costs as companies may need to pay for additional storage space to hold the excess inventory. A lot of sellers will start out selling on a single ecommerce marketplace, but then find as time passes that this marketplace gets more saturated — and more expensive to advertise on — making it harder to sell.

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Amazon Expands Buy with Prime Availability to all U.S. Marketplace Sellers

Retail TouchPoints

It enables sellers that also operate a DTC site to deliver an Amazon-level experience (simplified payment processing, fast delivery, easy returns) in their own branded environments, where they own both the sales and the increasingly valuable data that they generate.

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What is Buy Online Pickup In Store (BOPIS)? The Complete Guide for Omnichannel Retailers

Fabric

Today, BOPIS is viewed as a must-have for retailers because it has rapidly become a win-win omnichannel fulfillment strategy: customers avoid shipping costs, save time, and enjoy better product availability, while retailers can increase their in-store foot traffic, boost operational efficiency, and save money on distribution.

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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. The New ‘as-a-Service’ Frontier.

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21 Sessions, Presentations and Workshops You Can’t Miss at IRCE 2018

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IRCE – the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition – is an annual event held in June in Chicago, Illinois. It is the industry’s most trafficked annual conference combining high-profile brand executive tracks down to workshops to train junior employees. Jenny Buchar, Senior Manager, Digital Operations. What Is IRCE?

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