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The Top 5 E-Commerce Fulfillment Predictions For 2018

RTP blog

Nonetheless, we will do our best to identify what we at GrandCanals believe to be the top five fulfillment trends of the coming year, to better help you get in front of them. Amazon will continue to refine its futuristic predictive shipping capabilities and will be joined in 2018 by at least two other companies. Who will they be?

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How to Launch a Marketplace to be the Disruptor, not the Disrupted

Retail TouchPoints

Some retailers launch their own marketplace to become the disruptor instead of the disrupted. Retailers large and small have transformed their businesses with the marketplace business model and technology. Walmart, Target, Home Depot and most big box retailers run their own successful marketplaces.

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The New Next for Retail

OracleBlogs

Clothes were neatly stacked on shelves and displayed on mannequins, shoppers browsed in search of just the right item, and online orders came into the warehouse and awaited fulfillment. Stores closed and workers and consumers were sheltering at home, leaving fashion and specialty retail footfall at a near standstill.

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234 American Business Owners on Starting, Scaling and Staying Inspired

BigCommerce

They invented the napkin-ring-shaped golf ball, that only flies 40 yards with a full swing, as a solution to the overly expensive golf course real estate. Between waiting in line at the post office and paying $18 for the “military discount” shipping option, it wasn’t easy to do. The biggest problem? So, I made my own!