Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2025

From mountains of packaging to returned products that may contain hazardous materials, management of returned, damaged or expired products becomes increasingly complex and voluminous during the holidays and post-holiday season. Waste management providers ensure waste is handled safely and in compliance with regulations.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Bealls has adopted a workforce management (WFM) platform from Legion Technologies for demand forecasting, automated scheduling, time and attendance tracking and frontline communications across its 650 stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2025

PetSmart has deployed the gStore platform from GreyOrange to enhance inventory management and store operations in its nearly 1,700 stores. In addition to streamlining digital fulfillment and inventory handling, the platform offers seamless integration with order management systems.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 1, 2025

How can Retailers Improve Post-Purchase Using an Order Management System (OMS)? And while CX matters foremost, to enable the ever-growing focus on post-purchase, including AI-based experiences, superior architecture and data management is almost as critical as the functions themselves!

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

As a result, the 74% of merchants that saw their store operations budgets increase between 2023 and 2024 had to figure out the best way to allocate this money toward a wide-ranging set of needs, from new in-store technology and inventory management solutions to employee training and engagement initiatives.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The Fresh Market will deploy solutions from VusionGroup across all 166 grocery stores in its fleet next year, adding electronic shelf labels (ESLs), improved inventory management technology and analytics designed to better support in-store merchandising decisions, timing of out-of-stocks and prioritizing waste reduction.

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Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 20, 2025

I’m pleased to announce the publication today of the Forrester IT Management Systems Architecture. Unlike other business areas, the discipline of IT management still relies on point, best-of-breed solutions, which require extensive integration to make them all work together.

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Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 30, 2025

The proactive security market is consolidating further as exposure management vendor Tenable announced its intent to acquire Vulcan Cyber, a unified vulnerability management (UVM) vendor that specializes in third-party vulnerability collection, vulnerability response, and application security posture management.

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Wealth management firms must still balance the innovation AI offers with the oversight and governance expected from regulators. As AI continues make inroads in wealth management, it’s important for firms to use explainable AI tools that provide trust, transparency, and explainability to “black box” AI systems.

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lateshipment

MARCH 3, 2025

This is where proper returns management and reverse logistics come in like last-minute superheroes you can rely on to ensure your online business can handle returns without breaking the bank. In the world of e-commerce, an effective reverse logistics and returns management system is no longer a nice add-on; its a must.

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Groove

OCTOBER 22, 2024

However, maintaining a seamless and on-brand experience for your customers is still key, and this becomes a lot more difficult when you are managing a wide range of channels. This eliminates the need to manage each sales channel separately and instead allows you to integrate them into a single, centralized system.

eCommerce Platforms 333

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Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 16, 2024

On August 15, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced its intent to acquire Morpheus Data, a multicloud management solution “to make HPE GreenLake cloud the de facto platform for innovating IT.” The deal is expected to close early FY2024 Q4 of its fiscal year.

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Groove

OCTOBER 11, 2024

To succeed in this critical part of brand building, however, businesses need to expertly manage their websites and ensure that the content is optimized to deliver outstanding customer experiences. Your expertise lies in your specific industry, and you don’t necessarily have the resources within your business to dedicate to website management.

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lateshipment

APRIL 10, 2025

You get built-in tools to manage returns, send labels, issue refunds, and restock inventory, all from one place. In this article, we’ll walk you through Shopify returns management: what it offers, how to make the most of it, and what best practices can help you reduce friction and keep customers coming back. No patchy workflows.

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Forrester eCommerce

JULY 15, 2024

As one of the Forrester analysts in attendance this spring at the ServiceNow Knowledge 2024 and Atlassian Team 24 conferences, I noticed a palpable change.

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lateshipment

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Say hello to returns management automation, the ultimate game-changer for modern e-commerce. What is Returns Management Automation? Returns management automation is a process that is specially designed to facilitate smooth returns and exchanges for e-commerce businesses.

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lateshipment

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Returns management isnt just about slapping a label on a packaging box and calling it a day. What is Returns Management? Returns management is a part of the reverse logistics supply chain and refers to the process of handling returns requests raised by customers. If you dont have one yet, it’s time to create one.

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Groove

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Take a look at this example of how a sports equipment brand managed to boost its AOV by 12 percent when it provided free shipping on all orders that cost more than $500. By understanding how users interact with your site and making data-driven changes, eCommerce website management services can help you generate a lot more sales.

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 5, 2025

Last week, password wallet vendor LastPass experienced an outage. All LastPass systems and services have since been restored and are up and running. It is worth noting that this is not the first incident involving password wallet products.

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Groove

OCTOBER 20, 2024

To help you understand the importance of having a product feed for marketplaces, we'll go over how a multi-channel product data feed works and provide some product feed management tips you can use to set your online store up for omnichannel success. Thankfully, most major eCommerce platforms come with built-in product feed management tools.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2025

The retailer, owned by Elliott Investment Management along with the UK bookseller Waterstones , opened 57 stores in the U.S. Waterstones Managing Director James Daunt, who also leads Barnes & Noble, told FT that last year represented a really significant expansion, and that the company plans to do that or more in 2025.

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lateshipment

MARCH 8, 2025

Obsolete Technology Outdated technology can also lead to shipping delays as it can struggle to manage large shipping volumes and glitches with real-time tracking information. At such times, delivery trucks might have to cancel deliveries for the day and wait to deliver the packages the next day.

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Groove

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

- 03:25 Ideal Merchant Profile - 06:19 The Pendulum of Hosting Models - 08:53 Vendor Lock-in and Costs - 13:22 Outsourcing Innovation - 27:15 The Digital Sales Room - 30:22 Future of eCommerce - 38:21 Resources: Shopware - [link] Digital River - [link] Shopify - [link] Commerce Tools - [link] Basecamp - [link] Disney Plus - [link] Netflix - [link] (..)

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 7, 2025

Effectively managing returns fraud is crucial for controlling an organization’s costs. According to a Gartner survey, 39% of retailers identified cost management the mitigation and control of volatile or uncontrollable supply chain costs as one of the top three internal obstacles to achieving their supply chain goals and objectives.

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Wiser

APRIL 25, 2025

Inventory buffer management: Develop a strategy for maintaining optimal safety stocks or buffer inventories. Risk management and Contingency Planning Develop scenario planning models: Use historical data and current market insights to simulate potential tariff scenarios.

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 21, 2025

This week we published a new report looking at how generative AI can bring fresh energy to an enterprise content management program. Unlock The Potential of Your Documents With Generative AI is a call to action for content management leaders to explore new ways to engage with and exploit the value of their managed content. […]

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Closeout retailer Big Lots has initiated going of out business sales at its remaining stores following the news that a planned sale to Nexus Capital Management has fallen through. Big Lots currently operates 960 stores, according to its website , and will continue to serve customers both in-store and online.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2024

To meet Net Zero goals and comply with evolving regulations, companies must integrate sustainability across the value chain from raw materials to design, sales and marketing and supply chain management. Next, turn to skills such as sustainable procurement, supply chain management and stakeholder management.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

IoT is now part of the shopping experience, and retailers use it for things like automated checkout, inventory and data management and supply chain optimization. And when threats are discovered by NDR, a managed security provider can immediately quarantine them and notify security personnel to take further action.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The company then selected what Neighbour called the suite of As add-on technologies to round out the ecommerce experience: Algolia for search and recommendations, Amplience for content and digital asset management, Akeneo for product information management (PIM) and Adyen for payment services. That won’t achieve anything.

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