Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2024

Zulily Group has engaged the advisory firm Gordon Brothers to sell off more than $85 million of inventory and the assets of its two fulfillment centers following the online retailer’s decision late last year to shut down. Screenshot of the Zulily website from December 2023 highlighting the going-out-of-business sale.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The problems with getting products to people quickly and cheaply are well-known: consumers want fast fulfillment, which is costly to provide, but they don’t want to pay high (or really any) shipping fees. Even Amazon , the trendsetter in fast fulfillment, isn’t immune to higher labor costs.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 24, 2023

Walmart has opened an in-store Market Fulfillment Center (MFC) at Store 100 in its home town of Bentonville, Ark. This new order fulfillment system is truly game-changing,” said Ryan Simpson, Store Manager at Store 100 in a statement. Like the retailer’s first MFC , which opened in 2019 in Salem, N.H.,

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2023

For their part, more mall operators are looking to diversify their tenant mix and incorporate additional brands that resonate with younger audiences. As a result, emerging brands, especially those operating primarily online, have a unique opportunity to break into brick-and-mortar by leveraging prime real estate.

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Ecommerce Platforms

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Running a startup is tough work, and in the ecommerce business, it often means fulfilling products from your own office, home, or even a garage. But at some point, you’ll want to find a fulfillment provider to offer faster shipping, and to focus on other parts of your business. The Best Fulfillment Centers for Startups.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 25, 2023

But it’s how those stores operate that allows them to effectively serve as fulfillment hubs. Fast, efficient store fulfillment also made advances in Walgreens’ delivery services possible. “We Walgreens is continuing to seek ways to tighten operations and enhance the convenience of store pickup.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In the pandemic’s wake, many retailers set up flexible fulfillment services in order to meet new safety guidelines and consumer requirements. Nicholas believes that to make store fulfillment a truly profitable initiative, retailers need to find new ways for their tech, operations and design teams to collaborate.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The changes follow news that recently appointed Foot Locker President and CEO Mary Dillon would halt a planned expansion into Japan as the company changes course to grow ecommerce and adjust its global operations. The retailer’s executive leadership changes, which will become effective Dec.

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Kibo

MARCH 17, 2023

In response, leading companies are replacing their traditional fulfillment methods with flexible fulfillment strategies. This strategy typically requires a modern order management system that can manage complex inventory and omnichannel distribution models and has extensible fulfillment capabilities.

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Ecommerce Platforms

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you intend to ship ecommerce products to Florida, or anywhere in the Southwest region of the United States, it’s best to use a fulfillment center in Florida, or at least within the surrounding area. The Best Fulfillment Centers in Florida. What are the Best Fulfillment Centers in Florida (Tampa)? Advantages.

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Fabric

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

With fabric OMS, any retail operator can configure order routing rules to reduce order errors, get closer to customers, and reduce shipping expenses. As businesses grow, so does the complexity of allocating resources to fulfill customer orders across multiple locations. Determine which are the best locations to ship orders from.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

Canseco’s Market , Harps Foods and Price Chopper have joined the 600+ retail banners using Instacart Storefront to support their ecommerce sites. The solution features built-in catalog services and automated marketing campaigns as well as flexible fulfillment solutions that allow retailers to choose the model that works best for their stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2022

Wolt CEO Miki Kuusi will oversee the combined company’s team and operations outside of the U.S., The Wolt consumer app will continue to run separately with support from DoorDash, and Wolt will maintain operations in all of the markets where it currently operates. reporting directly to DoorDash CEO Tony Xu.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2023

Sam’s Club is embarking on an ambitious expansion of its physical footprint, beginning with five new fulfillment and distribution centers opening this year — the first, in Georgia, in Q3 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Kroger has kicked off a multi-year agreement to have Gatik AI ’s autonomous box trucks transport products from the retailer’s Dallas customer fulfillment center to multiple retail locations in the area.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This trend has already become evident with curbside pickup, which has become one of the fastest-growing models within fulfillment. On the back end, retailers have had to strengthen their technology in order to ensure a seamless operation takes place. Each of these steps is essential for a scalable, efficient pickup operation.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Amazon is adding 125,000 new warehouse and transportation jobs as it seeks to staff up the 350 fulfillment centers, sortation centers, regional air hubs and delivery stations it has opened this year, 100 of which will open in September alone. Sign-on bonuses of up to $3,000 are also being offered in some locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Following a 15 -store pilot project that kicked off in May 2023 , SpartanNash has deployed Tally, an autonomous inventory robot, in 60 more company-operated stores across the Midwest. The retailer operates 144 supermarkets, mostly under the Family Fare, Martin’s Super Markets and D&W Fresh Market banners.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 18, 2022

Convenience store retailer Yesway has chosen GSP to provide retail marketing services, including store profile management as well as POP design and production services, to 408 Yesway and Allsup’s stores in nine states. Yesway will draw upon GSP’s cloud-based retail intelligence platform to support its marketing process.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2020

BOPIS Fulfillment Options. How retailers fulfill BOPIS is the hot topic. A contactless way to fulfill BOPIS has become a public health necessity virtually overnight. As stores reopen and begin ramping up to full capacity, retailers will have to decide if they can realistically sustain and scale these fulfillment options.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2021

This surging demand has exposed fulfilment inefficiencies and sent retailers scrambling to power their delivery operations. The heaviest investment will take place in order fulfillment, such as last-mile delivery. In such cases, the addition of drivers and fleets may even exacerbate fulfillment issues.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Witherspoon has extensive experience in high-growth industries, most recently with Shipt parent company Target as the retailer’s SVP of Operations. In that role he was responsible for operational planning and prioritization, partner operations, M&A integration and process improvement initiatives across supply chain, stores and properties.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 10, 2021

Fulfillment was a key driver during the ecommerce-driven final quarter of 2020. Amazon will remain the retailer to beat, but fulfillment strategies like buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS) and curbside are only becoming more important. Omnichannel and Store-Based Fulfillment Are Bigger Than Ever.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The retailer also is enabling all Nordstrom Rack stores to fulfill online orders. “Our market strategy is how we provide customers with greater merchandise selection and faster delivery while increasing convenience through our services,” said Erik Nordstrom, CEO of Nordstrom in a statement. “Our ” .” ”

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 25, 2023

So as the tide of consumer preferences shifts, how can consumer goods companies ensure that their operations are truly sustainable to tap into this growing market and, at the same time, navigate the treacherous waters of ESG reporting?

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Ecommerce Platforms

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Whether you work alone or with staff, the fulfillment process is bound to take heaps of time away from other, more important, money-making tasks. Fortunately, plenty of third-party solutions can handle the entire fulfillment process for you. With that said, here we're going to look at how to choose an ecommerce fulfillment service.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2023

Shopping center operators are facing a new call to action: Evolve and elevate your experiences or lose your customers forever. We market to them, we communicate with them, we reward them for their loyalty. RTP: Have you noticed increasing demand for omnichannel fulfillment following COVID, too?

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2023

The demand for robotics and automation across retail logistics is pushed further by the ever-growing global fashion and ecommerce market value. Along with the boom in online shopping, as more retail activity shifts to ecommerce, fashion retailers in particular are faced with new responsibilities in order fulfillment.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2023

With the bustling holiday shopping season nearing, many brands have spent the last several months assessing their operational strengths and weaknesses, particularly in logistics and fulfillment. It’s what they do with this data, however, that can positively impact their logistics operations. 1: Demand forecasting.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

Target has big plans for 2022, with the retailer announcing plans to invest up to $5 billion this year to open new stores, enhance its digital, fulfillment and supply chain capabilities, and expand its shop-in-shop concept with Ulta Beauty.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2024

It’s already happening, as AI-powered marketing systems digest vast amounts of data on each individual shopper, develop a unique strategy to grow value and engagement, and generate true 1:1 promotions and pricing to achieve each strategy — all in an automated process that takes minutes for millions of shoppers at scale. That sounds good.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Following the acquisition of parcel delivery company AirTerra in late August, the retailer this week acquired in-market fulfillment operator Quiet Logistics for $350 million in cash. Services are offered through a network of fulfillment centers — currently operating in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, St.

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SellBrite

JULY 7, 2021

Luckily, there is a fulfillment service offered by Amazon called Fulfillment by Amazon or FBA for short. FBA is an order fulfillment solution that lets all types of sellers store, manage, and ship their products from Amazon warehouses. What is Fulfillment by Amazon? Cheap storage and shipping. for packing, and $0.45

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Ecommerce Platforms

APRIL 11, 2022

Everything is bigger in Texas, so it makes sense that ecommerce warehousing, distribution, and fulfillment have become commonplace in the Lone Star state. Not only is there an incredible amount of space for fulfillment companies to set up warehouses in Texas, but the state has its benefits when it comes to taxes and real estate costs.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 23, 2023

Amazon has brought its dedicated air cargo network, Amazon Air, to India — the third market for the service after the U.S. The launch is a first for an ecommerce company in India and a signal of the rapid growth in that region, which is the fastest-growing ecommerce market in the world, according to eMarketer. and Europe.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 9, 2023

When we talk about omnichannel order fulfillment , there can be a mistake in thinking it’s just about online. Many of these ‘child brands’ need to leverage the same retail fulfillment methods of the parent. So your distributed order management strategy must consider the DC and the store, both for taking and fulfilling orders.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The retailer is aiming to operate more than 15 sortation centers across the country to enable flexible and efficient last mile options that build on its store-as-hub strategy. The process is designed to reduce costs for customers while increasing speed and efficiency for Target’s own operations. “By

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