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Ecommerce vs. Retail Packaging: A Tale of Two Boxes

Retail TouchPoints

Ecommerce Packaging Protecting Your Product on its Journey E-commerce packaging focuses on the design and materials used to safeguard products during the shipping process. Excessive packaging can inflate shipping costs and create an environmental burden. Chris Thompson is Senior Marketing Communications Manager for QC Conveyors.

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Sensing, Not Seeing, with Vision AI as Retail’s Crystal Ball for the Future

Retail TouchPoints

While 7-Eleven is at the forefront of inventive uses for vision AI in the convenience retail market, we are also observing interest and adoption of vision AI for supermarket retailers for resource reallocation, to mirror each store’s unique ebb and flow of operations and foot traffic throughout the day.

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How Brands Large and Small are Leaning into the Amazon Effect to Compete

Retail TouchPoints

It’s not just possible but inevitable that retailers can thrive on Amazon and compete with it at the same time. A business model that was only possible with their unparalleled investment in the systems and shipping, fulfillment and supply chain infrastructure to support it. The purchasing power of $79 in 2005 equals about $109.90

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No Magic Solution

LS Retail

Christine Lantinen purchased the company in 2005, when it had $100,000 in sales. Today, sales at the privately-held company are up to $45 million. Besides a worker shortage, Maud Borup is experiencing – as many importers and exporters are – higher shipping costs.

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How Brands Can Deliver Sustainable Instant Commerce for Consumers

Retail TouchPoints

Traditional logistics networks weren’t built to handle such breakneck delivery speeds, and retailers are left trying to meet consumers’ expectations while facing ever-rising environmental impacts due to emissions-heavy overnight air shipping, cardboard overuse and even more delivery trucks clogging up city streets and spewing exhaust.

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How skydiving and ice baths help this CEO stay energised

Inside Retail

He has witnessed and helped shape the evolution of the industry around the rise of fast shipping, exceptional customer service, and the growing focus on sustainability. When I launched Appliances Online in 2005, online shopping wasn’t commonplace, let alone shopping for a big and bulky item. Appliances Online has now served over 2.5

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Why I’m Still at Cisco After 16 Years

Cisco Retail

Yet here I am still working at Cisco, 16 years after I joined the company. At university I studied English literature. My initial stint at Cisco was as a technical writer contractor in 1999. The company’s humble beginnings at Stanford in 1984?by Stint at Startups and Return to Cisco .

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