Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Macy’s has converted space in 35 of its stores to serve as mini distribution centers (DCs) for online orders as the retailer anticipates a continuation of strong digital demand. The news was announced on the company’s Q3 2022 earnings call Nov.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

stores, to distribution center-based fulfillment of large items like riding mowers, grills and furniture. CEO Marvin Ellison, speaking during a recent conference call discussing the home improvement retailer’s Q3 financial results, revealed that Lowe’s is on track to change over its entire store base to this model by the end of 2023.

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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

JUNE 2, 2023

Smart retailers are realizing that their increasingly complex omnichannel offerings have made strong supply chain management more important than ever. Retailers need to handle inventory in stores and distribution centers, keep an eye on both digital and physical shelves and keep costs down with efficient logistics and routing.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2022

Consumers’ continued reliance on omnichannel fulfillment has created new opportunities for industry giants like Walmart to differentiate and gain market share. comparable sales growth and growing market share in grocery during Q4 2021, and much of this success can be attributed to its robust last mile and fulfillment strategy.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 19, 2021

With re-masking and a potential fourth wave coming, we aren’t out of the woods yet, and it’s important to recognize how essential elements of retail business and operations have been forever transformed — most notably, the role of brick-and-mortar stores and the relationship between personalization and automation.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2022

The demand for grocery omnichannel ecommerce has been fueled by the pandemic, specifically consumers’ desire for convenience. To keep up with this demand and consumer expectations, grocers will have to invest in the right forward-looking technology to evolve omnichannel offerings to meet customer needs.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 10, 2021

As the new year approaches, retailers need to think about what their expansion plans will look like and how their stores can best serve customers. “I What is the supply chain going to look like?”. Open Air Shopping Centers Enable Easy Omnichannel Services. What’s going to normalize?

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Ecommerce Platforms

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The best fulfillment services for Shopify are designed to help ecommerce business owners deliver products to their customers quickly and efficiently. This means you need to plan how you’re going to store your goods, pick and pack them for delivery, ship them through the right providers, and so on. Shopify Fulfillment Network.

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ROI Revolution

MAY 20, 2021

Brick-and-mortar stores shut down, and customers flocked online to get the items they needed. For consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands, in particular, this change in the way consumers shop necessitated a different approach: omnichannel. Director, GM of Omnichannel at BigCommerce. So what exactly is an omnichannel strategy?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Pandemic-driven buying trends led to an explosion of new challenges, from a surge in online returns to the rise of curbside pickup to supply chain delays. Retailers implemented ad hoc backend solutions for responding to increased demand for in-store pickup and home delivery services, but many of those solutions were band-aids.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2020

everyone saw its immediate impact on supermarket supply chains: shelves emptied by consumers frantically stockpiling toilet paper, cleaning products and shelf-stable staples like rice and canned beans. supply chain face due to COVID-19? multi-year investment to transform its supply chain into a fully integrated self-distribution model.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 3, 2023

The retail industry is undergoing an unprecedented wave of change as global issues have affected retailer supply chains, the labor market and consumer behaviors. Flexible fixture layouts allow retailers to change and adapt the store over time for activations, events, seasonal displays and new store concepts.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A growing retail and ecommerce business can turn an efficient process into a multi-step nightmare with inaccurate purchasing, order fulfillment and returns processes. It all depends on multiple factors like the size of the warehouse, the quantity of inventory and the number of orders fulfilled. Sophisticated Automation.

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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. and New York’s Times Square.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 4, 2022

2021 was a critical year for the direct-to-consumer (DTC) space. With consumers’ rapid shift to ecommerce channels, DTC players had to navigate surges in demand and effectively compete against a broader landscape that included their startup peers but also omnichannel behemoths. Why do you think this is? Let’s think ahead though.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 19, 2021

Retailers need to prepare for shifts in product demand by allocating inventory in the right stores, warehouses and distribution centers. This will help them prepare their omnichannel fulfillment operations and ensure items get to customers in the most efficient, and profitable, way possible. ADDITIONAL LISTENING: 2.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In retail, the wow factor refers to the business’ ability to amaze customers and convert them into store or brand admirers. Retailers that understand the customer journey and adopt innovative strategies are looking at ways to turn their brick-and-mortar stores into experience centers. Tractor Supply Co. ,

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 31, 2022

This ultra-fast connectivity — when paired with other technologies such as IoT, computer vision or cloud computing — will enable everything from virtually enhanced, personalized in-store shopping to real-time planogram compliance to up-to-the-second SKU-level supply chain tracking. a retail store] with their own custom networks.

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ChannelAdvisor

APRIL 7, 2019

Developing an omnichannel supply chain strategy is essential to remaining competitive. This means enabling both order fulfillment and returns through various locations and methods, such as in your own or affiliate brick-and-mortar retail stores, as well as through digital stores. Simplify inventory management.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Consumers Want Retailers to Catch Up With Their Omnichannel Shopping Behaviors. Omnichannel is so important for us right now as the retail industry, and all industries for that matter, are hit with supply chain issues,” said Aaron Veit, Director of Digital Product Management at Crate & Barrel. “We Define your brand values.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Session topics ranged from ramping up touch-free in-store technologies to strengthening supply chains and getting the most out of marketplaces. Leverage Digital Tech for Touchless Store Experiences. Shoring Up Overstretched Supply Chains. Why Brands Shouldn’t Shun Marketplaces.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2021

Anxiety rates undoubtedly influence consumer behaviors, especially shoppers’ willingness to return to large physical spaces such as malls. Half of the respondents said they found new online stores and will continue to use them moving forward, while nearly as many (49%) said they tried different brands and will continue to buy them.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 21, 2021

Large retailers like Target and Walmart continued to thrive in Q1 2021 on the back of their large store footprints and strong omnichannel presence. However, while curbside was a major brand differentiator for Target and its peers over the past year, its power will wane as more and more shoppers return to in-store shopping.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2020

To attract a new generation of shoppers, retailers are looking to redefine go-to-market strategies and reimagine the customer experience inside their physical store locations. Increasingly, consumers want to browse and buy with the ease of click, or find products faster using in-store location technologies.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

JANUARY 16, 2024

As we step into 2024, the retail sector is undergoing significant transformations in technology, supply chain dynamics, and consumer behavior. Omnichannel Integration: The lines between physical and online retail continue to blur as omnichannel strategies take center stage.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2021

RTP: What does the “stickiness” of ecommerce mean for the fate of brick-and-mortar stores? Standish: Stores will not go away, but they will be reimagined. Retailers [with stores] will need to ask themselves what the purpose of their brand is, and what kind of experience they want to offer.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2021

When consumers go to a grocery store, generally they’re there to buy the individual ingredients that will eventually make a meal. JOANN stores also sell individual “ingredients,” but the end product is a decoupage photo album cover or a spooky handmade Halloween costume rather than a beef stew. and Sherman Oaks, Calif.

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365 Retail

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Ben Balfour, Business Operations Director at Advanced Supply Chain Group , shares top tips about how retailers can prepare their supply chains for a Black Friday and Christmas sales surge. Ben Balfour, Business Operations Director at Advanced Supply Chain Group. This year’s peak will be truly omnichannel.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 3, 2023

The news of Rempell’s departure comes at the same time AEO announced that it expects Q2 2023 revenue to be flat year over year, but ahead of previous guidance.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2020

Ascena, Brooks Brothers, Lucky Brand ), store closures and the shedding of executive-level positions. We’ll probably see 25% of all retail stores in the U.S. On top of that, the trend in stores is to have fewer, higher-skilled employees. So we have a perfect storm of fewer stores every year, and fewer employees per store.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

It’s difficult for brands to differentiate themselves in a physical store jammed with competitors’ products, and their fate depends on the priorities and perspectives of their retail partners. Elevate your omnichannel strategy. Shoppers will always patronize physical stores to some degree. Tell your story.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Want the latest thinking on how brick-and-mortar stores can be reconfigured for a post-pandemic environment? Reimagining and reconfiguring the physical store. Many DTC brands are leveraging physical retail and experiential spaces to fuel their growth. Curious about how consumer attitudes and behaviors are evolving?

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Once you’ve gone through the time and effort to measure the space, compare and select the pieces you need, you often have to wait weeks, even months, for them to arrive at your doorstep. You walk into these stores and there’s so much variety — different qualities and different styles.”

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 13, 2021

The 15 sessions, now available on demand, encompass critical areas of the retail enterprise, including: customer loyalty strategies; visual tech developments such as AR and 3D modeling; fulfillment and delivery management; the power of social networks; fast-growing Buy Now, Pay Later services; and the all-important customer experience.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Why should retailers care about their Order Fulfillment Process? Order fulfillment may seem like a fairly straightforward process and according to the generic “high-level” definition, it is. In today’s market, putting the right fulfillment system in place gets you a competitive edge. What is order fulfillment?

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