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Northern Tool Builds Up its Omnichannel Foundation With Brick-and-Mortar Expansion

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2022

Launched by Don Kotula in 1981 as a mail-order business that offered a patented log splitter design, Northern Tool & Equipment moved into brick-and-mortar retail later that year, expanded online in the 2000s and is now a leading omnichannel retailer for tradespeople, DIY enthusiasts and hobbyists. Engagement Across All Channels.

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Gift Card Purchases Up 414% as Americans Shift to ‘Buy Now, Shop Later’ Mindset

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Retailers should prepare for an extended omnichannel holiday season and look to provide value and options to shoppers as they look for ways to solve this season’s challenges.”.

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How Rent the Runway Boosted Talent, Sustainability and CX by Moving to the Cloud

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 8, 2022

Not only is the current labor environment making it hard to find good help, but as omnichannel commerce evolves, retailers are finding themselves in more need of skilled tech workers than ever before. We’re just four months in, and we’re already proving [the benefits] out every day.”. Attracting Top Talent in a Tight Labor Market.

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What Does ‘Omnichannel’ Mean in 2021? How Marketplaces are Reshaping the Digital Landscape

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

As the company’s Senior Director and General Manager of Omnichannel, Sharon Gee has been at the center of the massive shifts taking place in ecommerce over the last year and a half. As a result, companies had to contemplate, ‘What is my omnichannel strategy? What does the ideal of omnichannel look like, in your opinion?

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Retail vs Ecommerce: What’s the Difference?

Ecommerce Platforms

MARCH 18, 2023

You can offer customers an omnichannel selling experience which appeals to both their desire to in-person interactions, and their quest for convenient shopping experiences. Omnichannel selling Both retail and ecommerce store owners can enhance their chances of profits and revenue by selling across multiple channels.

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Why Curacao ‘Zags’ When Other Retailers ‘Zig’ — and How This Drives its Success

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 22, 2023

Curacao also can ship products as large as refrigerators, and offers money transfer services that tie back into the retailer’s emphasis on credit and mutual trust. “People come to our stores and buy their flower arrangement and we make sure it’s delivered in Mexico, wherever it is that their family or their mother lives.

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Shopify vs Shoplazza (2023): Which is Best for You?

Ecommerce Platforms

JUNE 22, 2023

Plus, both tools offer a variety of business models, with options for omnichannel selling, dropshipping, and more. Shopify supports omnichannel selling across multiple sales channels, with integrations to leading marketplaces, POS tools, and social media channels. Of course, there are some major differences worth noting too.

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5 Best Ways to Ship Products for Online Stores

OrderDynamics

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

5 Best Ways to Ship Products for Online Stores. In this world of online shopping ‘how to ship products for online stores’ is an important question. The ‘how to’ of shipping your products, shipping services, and shipping charges are all important. How to Ship Products for Online Stores.

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How Retailers Can Control Costs Even As Return Rates Climb

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

For example, shipping products back in certain cases costs more than a retailer could recoup through vendor credits, liquidation or resale.

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Best Fulfillment Center in Florida (Tampa)

Ecommerce Platforms

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

You’re able to connect your ecommerce shop with Flowspace, then store products in a myriad of fulfillment centers, whether those are in Tampa, Florida, or across the country in California. Flowspace is a wise choice for omnichannel brands, especially rapidly growing ones.

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How To Choose an Ecommerce Fulfillment Service

Ecommerce Platforms

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Dropshipping relies on a third-party supplier to manufacture, warehouse, pack, and ship products on the seller's behalf. When merchants work with a dropshipping supplier, they pick the product(s) they wish to sell from their product catalog. Cue the dropshipping business model.

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Amazon’s Counterintuitive Next Big Move — Helping Brands Sell Off Amazon

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

New offerings unveiled at Accelerate will help Amazon sellers: Deliver better experiences on their DTC site; More efficiently warehouse and ship product across all their selling channels , even if that means other marketplaces or brick-and-mortar retailers; and Drive customers from Amazon to their owned channels to make a purchase.

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Best Fulfillment Center for Startups

Ecommerce Platforms

OCTOBER 10, 2022

When you sign up to partner with ShipBob, you pay a simple monthly fee for beautiful inventory and warehouse management software, along with services for storing, packaging, and shipping products whenever orders come in through your ecommerce business. You can ship affordably, to almost anywhere in the world, in 2 days.

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Searchandising: Site search hacks that drive revenue

GetElastic

MAY 2, 2019

Billions are spent each year on mobile apps, content, personalization and omnichannel capabilities. Target should bury “not available for intl shipping” products for non-US shoppers. Improving customer experience is top-of-mind for every digital business. Don’t reset-and-forget! Search tuning shouldn’t happen in a vacuum.

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Critical Winery POS Features for Vineyards, Wine Shops, and Tasting Rooms

Korona

OCTOBER 6, 2021

According to Finances Online , 59% of retailers made focusing on omnichannel capabilities their top POS priority in 2020. KORONA POS and bLoyal provide wineries with state-by-state shipping compliance, allowing retailers to seamlessly ship products across the country without having to worry about the legality of doing so.

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Inventory Management for Scaling ($1M+) Businesses: Techniques You Need to Know Before You Go Bust

BigCommerce

JUNE 1, 2017

Ship products to customers in a timely manner. You probably already know how important inventory management is. Optimizing it can help you to: Save money. Keep your ecommerce store running as smoothly as possible. But, great inventory management can also increase your sales.

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Critical Winery POS Features for Vineyards, Wine Shops, and Tasting Rooms

Korona

OCTOBER 6, 2021

According to Finances Online , 59% of retailers made focusing on omnichannel capabilities their top POS priority in 2020. KORONA POS and bLoyal provide wineries with state-by-state shipping compliance, allowing retailers to seamlessly ship products across the country without having to worry about the legality of doing so.

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Walmart Switches to Recyclable Paper Bag Mailers and Right-Sized Packaging

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2023

Walmart also will cut the amount of cardboard used to ship products with a transition to right-sized packaging technology in approximately half of its fulfillment network. The transition is expected to remove 65 million plastic bags, or more than 2,000 tons of plastic, from circulation in the U.S.

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3 Amazon Practices to Mimic — and 2 to Drop

retailnext

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Many people can’t understand why Amazon retail practices include using far too much packaging to ship products. It started cutting down on the number of products shipped in cardboard boxes by using plastic envelopes instead. The brand’s response has caused even more issues.

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Why Retailers Need to Prepare for the Social Commerce Boom

365 Retail

MARCH 5, 2024

However, Social Commerce and the direct engagement and interaction with customers can create logistical challenges for retailers, first and foremost, in terms of volume: traditionally, brands have been more used to handling larger order volumes and shipping products to a small-medium number of locations.

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The Order Fulfillment Process in 2022 and Beyond

Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

At one end of the spectrum, fulfillment houses will take care of logistics by storing your inventory and shipping products to customers. A pure e-commerce merchant, an online operation independent of the retailer’s stores, and a true omnichannel retailer will use fulfillment models in different ways.

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Unify Drop Ship and Marketplace for a Highly Flexible Go-to-Market Model — Don’t Get Stuck in ‘Either-Or’

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2022

Suppliers ship products directly to consumers, while things like shipping costs, commissions or fees are negotiated. He is well versed in fulfillment services spanning physical and digital channels, advocating an omnichannel approach to get products closer to customers.

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The Best Shopify Plus Apps to Enhance your Store

Ecommerce Platforms

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Professional: Starting at $800 per month for 2,000 marketing contacts, with all the features of Starter plus omnichannel automation, AMB tools, dynamic personalization, multi-language content, social media, video hosting, company scoring, collaboration tools, A/B testing, contact create attribution, web traffic analysis and more.

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Pagecloud vs Shopify: Which is Best for You?

Ecommerce Platforms

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Some of the features you’ll find with both tools include: Ecommerce support: Both Shopify and Pagecloud support companies in selling both products and services online. You can create memberships, sell one-off services, book appointments with customers, and ship products to locations around the world.

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Top 4 Ways Retailers Can Differentiate Using Unified Commerce

Wiser

MARCH 15, 2018

Omnichannel retail is out and unified commerce is the latest and greatest way to provide a cohesive shopping experience. On one hand, omnichannel was about the existence of multiple selling channels. They ship products from the nearest store, if they don’t happen to have a warehouse within a reasonable distance.

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Ecwid Review 2019: Is it the Best Free Ecommerce Solution for Any Website?

Ecommerce Platforms

JULY 10, 2019

Store Management – SEO Tools, Analytics and Reporting, Mobile Store Management App, Abandoned Cart Recovery, Promotions and Discounts, Order Management, Inventory Management, Product Options and Attributes, Sell Digital Items. Ecwid Reviews: Ease of Use. The trick here is capitalizing on Ecwid’s POS (Point of Sale) functionality.

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Ecwid Reviews (Feb 2023): Is it the Best Free Ecommerce Solution for Any Website?

Ecommerce Platforms

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Apart from typical ecommerce tools, you can get add-ons for reward schemes, customer support, accounting, analytics, shipping, product management, dropshipping and store management. Then to top it off, the Ecwid grants them omnichannel sales capabilities across various online and offline channels. Have you ever used Ecwid?

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International Ecommerce Strategy: How to Market, Scale and Win at Every Stage

BigCommerce

OCTOBER 26, 2017

When it comes to ecommerce and doing business globally, Brian Beck, current SVP of ecommerce and omnichannel strategy at Guidance Solution, knows a thing or two. For example, in Asia Pacific, you may split shipping methods regionally based on where you have physical locations versus leveraging a provider in a country you do not.

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Top 3pl Companies: A Comparison of the Ideal Partners for Ecommerce Fulfillment

Ecommerce Platforms

AUGUST 17, 2021

Omnichannel fulfillment support for options like Cratejoy, Etsy, and Groupon, with no hidden fees, low storage fees, and a direct sync process for them to see what products have been sold and need fulfilling. Omnichannel support: Want to sell your products outside of your website, like on Amazon, eBay, or Etsy?

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Northern Tool Builds Up its Omnichannel Foundation With Brick-and-Mortar Expansion

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