Fri.Sep 23, 2022

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Amazon Trucks in California will be Powered by Electrofuels Beginning in 2023

Retail TouchPoints

According to the UN, the transportation sector accounts for approximately 25% of all carbon emissions globally, and Amazon transports a lot of goods. To combat the climate impact of all those deliveries, Amazon has teamed up with Infinium to begin powering its transportation fleet with ultra-low carbon electrofuels beginning in 2023. Infinium develops ultra-low carbon fuels that can be used to power cargo trucks, airplanes and marine freight without engine modifications.

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BIGTeam Spotlight: From Copywriting to Fashion, How Carmen Marxuach is Expressing Herself in the Ecommerce World

BigCommerce

Meet Carmen Marxuach, a copywriter at BigCommerce taking on a variety of promotional materials such as emails about our platform,…

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Internal Warehouse vs. 3PL: How to Reach the Best Decision for Your Business

Retail TouchPoints

Keeping your warehouse operations in-house or outsourcing them to a third-party logistics (3PL) company? Each option has its benefits and disadvantages. In internal fulfillment, the business handles the complete process of storing, packing and shipping. The company must have a warehouse to keep its inventory, and a logistics team to manage the goods for storing, ordering and shipping directly to stores/distributors or customers.

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Let Freedom Ring, or … Compute? – Open Mainframe Summit 2022

Forrester eCommerce

The Linux Foundation’s Open Mainframe Project just finished up their 3rd Summit and first in-person event – hosted in Philadelphia, PA. While the project has been around for about 7 years, accelerating interest in mainframe modernization has stimulated more vendor involvement as well as community participation. The in-person component of the event was small, participants […].

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The Future of Multi-Vendor Commerce

In this on-demand webinar, discover how Logicbroker’s cutting-edge technology enhances the overall experience for both current and future customers and gain insights into how leveraging our seamless integration process unlocks new dimensions of efficiency and functionality. Plus, learn how our advanced marketplace features are set to revolutionize the way businesses operate, offering opportunities for growth and success within your multi-vendor commerce program.

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Ralph Lauren to Open 250 Stores Over the Next Three Years

Retail TouchPoints

At its Sept. 19 investor day, Ralph Lauren revealed that its growth plans through 2025, which will include opening 250 stores globally. As part of its strategy to become the leader of the luxury lifestyle category, the brand’s three-year outlook will rely on a digital-first strategy that is aligned with scaling across the top 30 global cities. While 63% of the company’s business is derived through direct-to-consumer channels and 26% is credited to digital commerce, Ralph Lauren has “reduced bran

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Presentations Are About To Get Swamped In AI-Generated Images

Forrester eCommerce

…and I’m not sad about it. The rise of large language models, and the tools built upon them like DALL-E mini, Stable Diffusion, and others, are being touted as the heralds of a new age of capabilities in AI tools and products. On a micro scale, they are already changing my day-to-day worklife in a […].

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Elastic Path Partners with Builder.io to Streamline Building Revenue-Generating Customer Experiences.

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Has your digital merchandising team ever delayed a launch while waiting for developers to make edits and publish updates? You are not alone. Too often, IT bottlenecks slow down time to market, resulting in lost potential revenue from your merchandisers’ game-changing ideas. Elastic Path and Builder.io partnership will make that a headache of the past.

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Destination XL Group Hires Former BB&B Exec as Marketing Chief

Retail TouchPoints

Destination XL Group, Inc. has hired James Reath, former SVP of Marketing at Bed Bath & Beyond , as its new Chief Marketing Officer. Reath will replace Ujjwal Dhoot, who will leave the company Oct. 11, 2022. Reath will manage overall marketing strategy, brand, consumer, creative, media, CRM and digital commerce for the company, which operates the DXL Big + Tall and Casual Male XL brands.

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How Does the Lateshipment.com Post-purchase Success Suite Work?

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As an e-commerce business owner, you do everything to delight your customers once they place an order on your website – from making sure their order is packed right, to doing your best to get it to their hands-on time. Yet brands miss out the most in terms of engagement and delivering delight when it comes to the post-purchase journey, unintentionally losing opportunities to 10x customer loyalty.

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Target Plans to Hire up to 100K Seasonal Workers, More Than Twice Walmart’s 40,000

Retail TouchPoints

Target will add as many as 100,000 seasonal associates to its workforce this holiday season, approximately the same number as in 2021. The retailer is hoping the higher starting wage range it announced in February 2022 , $15 to $24 per hour, will streamline its holiday hiring plans despite ongoing labor shortages. Target’s target is 2.5X the 40,000 employees that Walmart plans to add to its payroll for the holiday sales season.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and guest speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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E-commerce apps lose pandemic luster: report

RetailDive

New research shows downloads and marketing spending is declining amid shifts in consumer behaviors, data privacy changes and recession fears.

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

Retail TouchPoints

With 2 million third-party sellers accounting for more than half of its retail revenue, Amazon ’s relationship with the businesses that sell on its platform has become essential to its success. As those sellers have become more successful though, they have also become more powerful …and more demanding. Many are no longer content to exist solely in a homogenized environment, cut off from the customers they sell to and the data those sales generate, even if that environment does offer massive reac

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Nordstrom lays off over 200 workers at supply chain facility

RetailDive

The retailer has been working to make its supply chain faster and more productive as it looks to offset costs and meet pick-up demand.

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Costco not ready yet to up its membership rates

RetailWire

Costco typically increases the rates it charges for its membership about once every five-and-a-half years. The chain, which posted gains in revenues and earnings for the last quarter isn’t ready to announce an increase. CFO Richard Galanti said, “We are confident in our ability to do so (raise rates). And at some point, we will. But it’s a question of when, not if.”.

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The B2B Digital Commerce Playbook for Manufacturers

In this comprehensive guide, we delve into four essential ecommerce strategies for manufacturers. Each strategy is backed by a clear vision to ensure your efforts are aligned. Whether you’re a seasoned industry player or a budding digitalization champion, these strategies offer actionable insights to drive success. What will you find in the guide: Overview of how current events and external pressures impact business priorities.

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Online only, Lord & Taylor unveils fall merchandising, new logo

RetailDive

The 200-year-old department store is aiming for an “elevated experience” as it attempts a reboot — but “don’t call it a comeback.

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Retailers caught between rising costs and consumer price sensitivity

RetailWire

Retailers are caught between a rock and hard place where they have to pay more to buy the goods they sell while serving customers who are looking for price breaks in an inflationary environment. Wendy Arlin, CFO of Bath & Body Works, said, “Ultimately, we want our promotions to generate margin dollars. That’s our goal.”.

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The Weekly Closeout: Home Depot employees move to unionize and Nike launches recycling program on Alipay

RetailDive

Philadelphia workers for the home improvement retailer filed with the National Labor Relations Board, while the athletics brand partnered with Ant Group’s Green Energy Initiative.

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‘Thursday Nigh Football’ drove Prime membership sign-ups for Amazon

RetailWire

Amazon.com’s first exclusive National Football League game pitting the Kansas City Chiefs against the Los Angeles Chargers drew 15.3 million viewers. The game, according to Jay Marine, head of sports for Prime Sports, led to “the biggest three hours for US Prime sign-ups ever in the history of Amazon.

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The Personalization Playbook: 2024 Strategies

Did you know—74% of IT leaders are looking to improve their tech stack to offer better personalization? It’s impossible to ignore the importance of personalization, but it comes with challenges. How do you do it with a tight budget? What about customer privacy and the use of data? The Personalization Playbook is packed with research and insights from Orium, Talon.One, and Bloomreach and gives IT leaders answers to these tough questions, helping them shape 2024 strategies for personalization.

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Kohl’s board unanimously backs CEO

RetailDive

The retailer is standing behind Chief Executive Officer Michelle Gass amid pressure from an activist investor to replace her and the board’s chair.

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Texas restaurant operator gave wait staff tips to managers

RetailWire

A U.S. Department of Labor investigation found that Back’s Barbecue took $230,353 in tips from its wait staff and turned it over to managers at its restaurants. Kent Black, grandson of original Black’s Barbecue pit master Edgar Black Sr. said an error occurred when the company outsourced its payroll to a third party.

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Digital Vs Physical Shelf: What Each Means for Omni-channel Retail

IntelligenceNode

How Your Business Can Rise To Meet Growing Consumer Expectations The moment a consumer completes any retail transaction, more often than not, is preceded by a much longer process of. The post Digital Vs Physical Shelf: What Each Means for Omni-channel Retail appeared first on Blog.

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USDA expands online shopping for SNAP recipients

RetailWire

The U.S. Department of Agriculture this week added 150 grocery chains to its list of retailers that accept that will accept Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits online. “Online grocery shopping is a convenient, safe, secure, way to shop for food while saving SNAP participants time and money,” said Stacy Dean, deputy undersecretary for food, nutrition, and consumer services.

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib

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Terms and Conditions – Personalization Assessment

Dynamic Yield

TERMS AND CONDITIONS By consenting to these Terms and Conditions (the “Terms and Conditions”), the individual that consents to these Terms and Conditions represents that they have the full power and authority to bind the Client to these Terms and Conditions, and that the Client accepts and agrees to be bound by the following provisions. […]. The post Terms and Conditions – Personalization Assessment appeared first on Dynamic Yield.

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EPA fines companies for marketing pesticide as disinfectant spray to kill COVID-19

RetailWire

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will receive $325,000 from two companies, Zoono USA and Zoono Holdings, that sold a pesticide on Amazon.com and other sites while marketing it as a disinfectant spray. Zoonotic Holdings blamed the false marketing on its distributor, claiming that it was “unaware at that time of any misleading claims being made by the distributor or sub distributors.”.

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BFCM 2022: 22 E-commerce Insights to Maximize Sales

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The holiday season encompasses the next three months in the form of Halloween by the end of next month to Christmas and New Year by the end of the year. But the most important or ‘peak’ holiday season lies between the two (in November this time) in the form of Black Friday and Cyber Monday (BFCM). Since we’ll be talking extensively about these days in this article, we’ll use the acronym BFCM hereafter.

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Bed Bath & Beyond seeks big name merchandise to deliver a solid Christmas

RetailWire

Bed Bath & Beyond is looking to sign deals with popular direct-to-consumer brands to generate customer traffic during the holiday season. The retailer is currently looking to fill merchandise holes with its own brand products.

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Planning the Architecture of Your Modular DXP

Are you considering moving away from a monolith platform and over to composable architecture? Join experts from Google Cloud, GroupBy, and Orium as they discuss the benefits of moving to a modular digital experience platform. In this masterclass, uncover key indicators that show your brand is ready for a modular DXP, and learn how to lay the foundation for composable commerce.

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Comparing Talkoot and Airtable

Talkoot

Comparing Talkoot and Airtable Lizzie Davey Writer Organizations used to choose single, general-purpose tools that worked “just fine” for all team members. Today, smart companies are onboarding multiple specialized tools that meet the exact needs of each team and are easy to integrate to create a powerfully personalized ecosystem. Cherry-picking the best tools for each activity is what drives the premise of the Mach Alliance – a movement we believe will pave the future path for the software worl

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Hedge fund wants Kohl’s CEO and board chair to be replaced

RetailWire

Ancora Holdings, which has a 2.5 percent stake in Kohl’s, wants Peter Boneparth, chairman of the company’s board, and CEO Michelle Gass replaced. “The combination of the Boneparth-led Board’s ineffective leadership and management’s poor execution, as evidenced by the company’s numbers, compel us to call for a new chairman and chief executive officer at this critical fork in the road,” the hedge fund wrote in a letter stating its position.

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