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Retailers Increasingly Turning to Third-Party Resources to Handle Fulfillment

Retail TouchPoints

Store-based fulfillment of customer orders got an enormous boost during the COVID pandemic, when both curbside pickup and delivery offerings became survival tactics for so many retailers. Each of these companies announced new retail partnerships last year, many outside the “home turf” of the grocery vertical.

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Ikea Drones Will Employ AI to Work in Tandem with Fulfillment Employees

Retail TouchPoints

By integrating this new system into fulfillment spaces, Ikea’s operations will “run continuously,” the company shared in an announcement. The retailer started implementing the drone technology in a distribution center in Perryville, Md. this summer.

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How Sephora Turned Order Fulfillment into a Loyalty-Builder

Retail TouchPoints

“I got a view of everything around Sephora; I got to see what it was like to do digital marketing, the ecommerce business, the forecasting and planning business,” Turley said in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “I That’s one reason why all touch points — from initial engagement to post-purchase — are owned and operated by the retailer.

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Walmart Marketplace Adds Categories, Enhances Fulfillment Offerings

Retail TouchPoints

Walmart Marketplace will add three popular categories to its assortment and expand fulfillment offerings for sellers, including a multichannel solutions program that will use Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS) to fulfill orders from any ecommerce site via Walmart’s supply chain when it launches Sept.

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Embrace Business Complexity With Real-Time Inventory Data

Join Orium, Fluent Commerce, Mercaux, and MACH Alliance Ambassador Prasad Tangirala, Head of eCommerce Engineering at Conn’s HomePlus, for an expert panel discussion exploring the crucial role of real-time inventory data in a brand’s in-store retail operations.

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ModCloth and Misen Outsource Omnichannel Fulfillment Operations

Retail TouchPoints

Two digital-first brands, Misen and ModCloth , are partnering with Cart.com to improve their omnichannel fulfillment and logistics operations. fulfillment partner. Cookware and knives brand Misen has made Cart.com its official U.S. The brand will ship its products out of two U.S.

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Hy-Vee Integrates Instacart Fulfillment Capabilities for Delivery

Retail TouchPoints

Hy-Vee will leverage Instacart ’s Fulfillment as a Service (FaaS) to integrate same-day delivery fulfillment capabilities into its owned and operated websites and apps.

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A Quick Guide to Shopping for Fulfillment

5 Factors to Consider When Comparing 3PLs

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Help your customers feel the love with shipping and fulfillment optimization

Help your customers feel the love with shipping and fulfillment optimization

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2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)

Join industry visionaries Joe Heather and Noah Hayes in this exclusive new webinar as they dive deeper into: The role on-demand delivery has to play today, and how it has revolutionized the way businesses are operating FMCG and Q-commerce’s dynamic interplay and impact on first-party delivery and fulfillment Pivotal lessons we can learn from the F&B (..)