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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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Seriously Silly Socks: Personalization + pick, pack, ship simplification.

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Seriously Silly Socks won the Innovation Awards Grand Prize of $10,000 and a fully paid trip to a Retail Conference of their choice. For building a personalized Build-a-Box tool that simultaneously reduced pick, pack and ship time –– saving time while making money. Why they won. Business stats. Founder: Andrew Gill. Final word.

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How Michaels Reconfigured its Fulfillment Models to Dramatically Enhance Ship-From-Store Performance

Retail TouchPoints

Michaels had a major ecommerce ship-from-store challenge. It’s not that this fulfillment method wasn’t popular β€” the arts and crafts retailer shipped nearly 3 million orders from its 1,300+ stores across the U.S. That was not only expensive for Michaels but contributed to slower-than-desired delivery speeds for its customers.

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Amazon’s Counterintuitive Next Big Move β€” Helping Brands Sell Off Amazon

Retail TouchPoints

β€œFor 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.

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Are Amazon FBA Fees Worth The Cost?

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But does it deliver better ROI, will it drive up your costs, and is it a fit for your business? These are: Fulfillment fees: the cost to pick up, pack and ship your item. Storage fees: the cost to store items in Amazon’s warehouses when you use their FBA program. Referral fees are a percentage of the item price.

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Gen AI: Google’s Not-so-Secret Weapon in the Battle for Search Engine Dominance

Retail TouchPoints

Last week Google announced a sweeping slate of product updates across its search, shopping and marketing interfaces at Google Marketing Live (GML), which followed an equally expansive set of updates from the Google I/O conference for developers the previous week. with more countries to be added soon.

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Top 10 Contactless Trends to Watch in 2022

Retail TouchPoints

β€œThe 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.