ESW

MARCH 5, 2024

In the last few years, omnichannel logistics and delivery have become more than a nice-to-have. Omnichannel logistics and delivery are a must-have. Not only do shoppers increasingly demand it, but supply chain complexities and costs incentivise brands to embrace new and innovative ways of moving product.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 29, 2024

While more than half ( 54% ) of retailers responding to the 2023 Omnichannel and Fulfillment Benchmark Report said active physical stores are the final locations for inventory prior to delivery, retailers are increasingly using third-party services to handle the actual mechanics of picking, packing and delivering items to consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Retail TouchPoints (RTP): How do you believe consumers’ omnichannel shopping behaviors will evolve or accelerate during the holiday shopping season? This created a ripple effect for retailers that were experiencing a higher volume of ecommerce orders and had to leverage stores as fulfillment centers to process and ship online orders.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2020

Ready to grow even further, the company launched a digital transformation to swap out its legacy systems, advance customer knowledge through data and provide a truly omnichannel customer experience. If a customer walks into a store and says, ‘My hands are full, ship it to me,’ that’s one experience we have to offer.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 2, 2023

“We acquire a majority interest in these Shopify direct businesses and then we plug them into our operating system and platform to continue to scale by really focusing on omnichannel growth and profitability,” explained Windrick. We have folks with 10-plus years of experience in 3PL shipping logistics, customer service and demand planning.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

Retail’s busiest returns period may be in the rearview mirror until next year, but rising ecommerce order volumes have caused returns management to become an aspect of ecommerce and omnichannel business that warrants a dedicated year-round strategy. Returns are a major cost of doing retail business of any kind, but especially online.

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Omnisend

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The 2021 holiday season is already different from holiday seasons of the past, starting with manufacturing and trickling down to shipping. As a result, your shipping strategy for the holiday season needs to be more dynamic and responsive to the shifting demands of holiday shoppers. Buy supplies now. Reading Time: 5 minutes.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Under the new market delivery model, large items are shipped directly from DCs to the customer, reducing the number of “touches” for each order and freeing up space at brick-and-mortar stores. The retailer’s legacy distribution model had stores operating as nodes in the fulfillment process.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Gift cards are shaping up to be a holiday hero this season, as consumers and retailers continue to grapple with supply and shipping issues. Combine that with concerns about shipping delays for those products that are in stock and it should come as no big surprise that gift cards are looking pretty good to shoppers this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 28, 2023

. “Partnering with Zipline is propelling GNC to the cutting edge in the retail category,” said Alan Chester, Chief Supply Chain Officer at GNC in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2023

In today’s challenging business landscape, where profit margins are shrinking, supply chains are slow and uncertain, labor shortages are prevalent and inflation is a concern, it is crucial for retailers and brands to differentiate between understanding customer habits and fostering customer loyalty in order to succeed.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2023

The club retailer also plans to open more than 30 larger-format stores, most of which will include enhanced perimeter departments, bigger healthcare spaces and dedicated areas for curbside pickup, home delivery and ship-from-store orders. The retailer also completed a chainwide rollout of inventory-scanning robots in October 2022. “As

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Pivotree Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

If you’ve adopted a thriving omnichannel strategy, your retail establishment likely provides customers with both online and in-store purchasing options. This convergence of digital and physical retail experiences emphasizes the importance of a well-coordinated omnichannel approach. This leads to frustration and customer loss.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Consumer expectations of retailers have been transformed by their experiences buying from Amazon and other innovative retailers that are able to provide fast, efficient omnichannel experiences. Optimized supply chain management to avoid stockouts and overstocking. Holiday shopping season is upon us.

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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. For Hot Topic’s Young Customers, ‘It’s All About Breadth’ At Hot Topic, two factors put additional pressure on an already complicated supply chain. It manages our BOPIS component.

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GetElastic

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In today’s digital world, merchandisers must take full advantage of the omnichannel space to influence and guide the shopper through the decision-making process. Today’s shopper is now demanding an omnichannel experience ; so the journey must seamlessly integrate a mix of the in-store and online components. Attract not detract.

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Pivotree Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

But meeting the complex demands of the modern supply chain isn’t easy, especially if you’re running a monolithic order management system. Integrated ecosystems are what’s driving speed and efficiency in today’s supply chain operations. Companies are under tremendous pressure to evolve their systems to keep pace with demand.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2023

GNC will revamp its brick-and-mortar stores to make them into “home bases” where its tech-driven omnichannel experience will be launched. GNC has partnered with Salesfloor to bridge GNC.com with in-store associate coaching to create an omnichannel social selling experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2022

The acquisition of Anomalie aligns with David’s Bridal’s recent steps toward building out its omnichannel strategy and securing its role as a one-stop-shop for special occasion attire. that were in stock and ready to ship to customers in the U.S. that were in stock and ready to ship to customers in the U.S.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

MARCH 20, 2023

In 2023, supply chains must adjust to the dramatic changes in consumer demand, congested ports, and chaotic distribution centers. This means that the retail supply chain and supporting logistics must adapt to these volatile market conditions. These initiatives help increase supply chain efficiency and reduce the cost of operations.

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ROI Revolution

MAY 20, 2021

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. But the reassuring strength of an omnichannel sales approach is that it’s a risk mitigation strategy at its core. Claim your copy!

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

At the same time, many retailers are reporting higher and higher shipping costs, which are affecting profits on their balance sheets. And although omnichannel fulfillment is growing in importance, they still want to drive offline sales and bring people into the store, while also minimizing the impact of shipping costs on their bottom line.

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RTP blog

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Household names like Toys ‘R’ Us, Nine West, Brookstone and Payless have shut up shop; and Amazon continues to squeeze the competition with one-day Prime shipping. We see smart retailers playing to their strengths and investing in creating the sorts of omnichannel shopper experiences that pure play e-Commerce giants can’t.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 19, 2021

But the lessons learned over the past year have also exacerbated how inefficient parts of the supply chain and retail industry are. Looking ahead, retailers need to consider new and existing concepts, like microfulfillment centers that optimize the supply chain, drive efficiency and meet consumers’ immediate fulfillment demands.

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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

MARCH 26, 2021

Customers expect a seamless omnichannel shopping experience that enables them to buy anywhere and pick up anywhere with the least cost and hassle. However, successfully delivering omnichannel fulfillment requires an up-to-the-millisecond view of inventory availability across channels.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Additionally, Liquidity Services , which operates a B2B ecommerce marketplace for surplus business and government goods, has launched a new consumer-facing omnichannel marketplace called AllSurplus Deals for returned and overstock goods. The auction-based website is now available to consumers in Arizona.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Over the next year, conversations will continue to advance, and we’ll see more brands take cues from Tractor Supply to develop a consistent and scalable process for testing and optimizing new in-store technology to support associates.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2022

To Review: With ecommerce now encompassing much more than just a website (think livestreaming, social commerce, marketplaces and the metaverse), we predicted that the overarching key to omnichannel success in 2022 will be great content. Lowe’s even released a set of virtual building supplies for metaverse projects.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 18, 2023

These Tuples are built on a cloud-native and cloud-agnostic tech stack, and the Studio technology can be delivered in deployment models including SaaS and source code ownership.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2022

Results from Retail TouchPoints’ annual Customer Loyalty and Personalization Benchmark Report reaffirm that retailers are focused on building a strong foundation of first-party data to support their supply chain, in-store services, omnichannel marketing and experiential strategies. . Stand Out Beyond Free Shipping .

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 5, 2022

But now, even as consumers return to stores, they have come to expect those omnichannel conveniences, meaning retail executives must find a way to make them financially viable. That’s not particularly surprising — grocery is a high-volume, low-margin business with incredibly complex supply chains.

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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. Associates are what keep a robust store-based fulfillment operation running, and keeping their skills sharp is a key ingredient in Walmart’s omnichannel success.

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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

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Much of retail is sitting on top of mountains of data, but the ability to connect the product, supply chain and customer data together and actually change experiences in real time can be somewhat limited. This includes things like optimizing pick, pack and ship in stores with AI-based solutions.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 13, 2021

in the next five years and also has its sights set on international expansion, with plans to launch omnichannel operations in key markets in Western Europe and Asia Pacific next year as well as an innovation center in Taiwan. The company plans to add more than 100 additional stores in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

digital sales to grow 10% , while shifting shopper habits will create a variety of new opportunities for omnichannel retailers. I think retailers are actually going to try to move things up to reduce variability to the season because of all the supply chain difficulties.”. Supply Chain Challenges Will Lead to a Reduction in SKUs.

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