Inside Retail

JULY 13, 2021

Woolworths has announced plans for a new online fulfilment centre in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire, aiming to better serve the region spanning from Engadine to Kurnell – adding a further 15,000 potential customers to its home delivery and direct-to-boot pick up offers. An artist’s render of the site. Source: Supplied.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

As part of the virtual Retail Innovation Conference, Retail TouchPoints presented the winners of the 2020 Retail Innovator Awards (RIA) last night on a livestream celebration across its social platforms. More recently, she instituted a benefits plan for 58,000 part-time employees. Their strategy was to use “supply chain as a weapon.”

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Regal Brands Global , the new owner of iconic department store brand Lord & Taylor , plans to relaunch it as a discount luxury ecommerce platform in 2025. Lord & Taylor was an early victim of COVID; the retailer closed all its physical stores in 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In the pandemic’s wake, many retailers set up flexible fulfillment services in order to meet new safety guidelines and consumer requirements. From early 2020 to mid-2021, the percentage of retail chains offering curbside pickup surged from a miniscule 7% to a staggering 51%. Nicholas offered six best practices: 1.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2025

In 2024, our business performed well in a challenging retail environment, and we made significant progress on our Life Out Here strategy, said Hal Lawton, President and CEO of Tractor Supply in a statement, referring to the retailers long-term strategic roadmap revealed in October 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Taking advantage of the surge in online grocery generated by COVID-19, Farmstead plans to bring its dark store fulfillment model to a third market: Raleigh-Durham, N.C. Farmstead began in the San Francisco Bay area and announced plans in September 2019 to expand into the Carolinas. The expansion will be fueled by a $7.9

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2025

Walmart Canada has announced plans to invest $6.5 billion over the next five years as it further accelerates growth in the country, with plans to open dozens of new stores. A fourth DC included in this 2020 round of investment, the Vaughan Distribution Centre, will open this spring.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 2, 2021

Kroger outlined plans to deliver total shareholder returns of 8% to 10% in 2021 at its virtual Investor Day, held March 31, 2021. In 2020 alone, driven largely by COVID-19, digital sales doubled , as did the number of households using Kroger’s network of digital offerings. on March 22.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2021

and the company plans to have nationwide coverage by the end of this year. in July 2020, and has steadily expanded the offering since. The ridesharing service kicked off the year by launching a partnership with delivery and fulfillment cloud platform provider Bringg that gives retailers seamless access to drivers through Uber Direct.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 21, 2020

Amazon plans to invest $1.4 In Manhattan, where Amazon has acquired the Fifth Avenue building that previously housed Lord & Taylor , the company plans to accommodate approximately 2,000 workers in 630,000 square feet of new office space. 11 Fulfillment And Delivery Centers To Open In Metro Phoenix.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2021

Woolworths has announced its intention to build a 22,000sqm online fulfilment centre located in Auburn, Sydney, which will facilitate up to 50,000 online orders per week. Auburn and our other fulfilment centres play important roles complementing the work of our store teams.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2022

And while the majority of retailers didn’t break any records, most reported steady growth and in-store traffic improvements compared to 2020. Walmart is planning to tap into this growth by leveraging its massive brick-and-mortar footprint to further grow its last mile capabilities. The one exception?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2020

The second prong was replacing foundational systems, such as the company’s legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. “It We started the program with NewStore in earnest in January 2020 and started rolling the system out to stores in the beginning of June,” Larocque said. It’s really a holistic approach,” she said. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2025

billion Kroger-Albertsons tie-up as well as the November 2024 end of a planned Capri Holdings and Tapestry merger. After moving aggressively into direct sales in 2020 and 2021, Nike had to begin rekindling wholesale relationships with retailers including DSW and Macys in late 2023. Walgreens Agrees to $192.5M

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 23, 2021

And it doesn’t plan to stop there. Woolworths is also teaming up with Uber Direct which will see a portion of the orders made via Woolworths Online fulfilled by Uber. The post ‘Go anywhere, get anything’: Uber reveals plans for marketplace appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2021

Amazon is planning to hire 75,000 additional employees across its fulfillment and logistics network in the U.S. In April 2020, Amazon beat back a unionization attempt by employees at one of its fulfillment centers in Alabama despite complaints about poor working conditions. and Canada.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2024

plans to open approximately 100 new stores in 2025 as it moves toward its eventual goal of operating 3,200 locations 200 more stores than its previous target as part of its Life Out Here 2030 strategic vision. Tractor Supply Co. For its Q3 2024, which ended Sept. 28, 2024, Tractor Supply generated net sales of $3.47 billion , a 1.6%

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

The retailer plans to roll out delivery of items from 1,100 stores beginning in August. Big Lots plans to implement ship-from-store capabilities from selected stores later in 2020. Big Lots will enter the same-day delivery battlefront via a partnership with last-mile logistics provider PICKUP.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Best Buy is doubling down on its commitment to ecommerce with a new four-store pilot that will reduce the shoppable area so that these stores can better operate as fulfillment hubs. The shift will give these stores more space for staging in-store pickup and additional support for ship-from-store transactions.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

While this figure is down $50 from 2019, given 2020’s overall uncertainty, such a slight decline would represent a significant victory. The pandemic’s impact on shopping habits isn’t abating: 66% of respondents will prefer home delivery over other fulfillment methods, according to a survey by Oracle.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2021

billion online in 2020, and many sellers experienced substantial growth in key categories, such as home goods, health and beauty. With marketplaces growing more than 80% globally in 2020, there will be even more options than ever for brands to connect with consumers. Fulfilment of the future. Shifting demographics.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 28, 2021

Bloomberg , 2020). While suburban shopping malls and department stores have fallen victim to COVID, some smaller retail brands and local stores in walkable neighborhoods with a mix of uses, where people live, work, shop and relax, have thrived ( LA Times , 2020). Throughout 2020, major cities in the U.S. Kickfin , 2020).

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2021

Target’s Store-Based Fulfillment Model Drives Convenience. in Q2 2021 while its digital comparable sales grew 10% , building on the 195% growth achieved in 2020. More than 95% of Target’s Q2 sales were fulfilled from stores, the result of years of developing and perfecting the fulfillment process. year-over-year and 5.8%

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

JCPenney is upgrading merchandising tools and supply chain operations to improve product availability as well as the overall fulfillment experience. JCPenney’s “Make it Count” customer strategy and brand proposition is the centerpiece of the turnaround plan. Merchandising and supply chain optimization.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2023

Amazon reportedly plans to close eight Amazon Go convenience stores as part of a larger restructuring of its physical footprint , according to CNBC. The latest project involves the construction of three 22 -story office buildings and is part of overall plans to spend $2.5

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Prime Day 2020 will likely prove to be a success, according to Rachel Dalton, Director of Ecommerce and Omnichannel Insights at Kantar. planned to spend less. of non-members planned to make purchases during the promotion — a sizable audience. Small Businesses Were Big Beneficiaries of Prime Day 2020. While the $3.5

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2021

December 31, 2020 marked the end of the Brexit transition period, and whilst many took a sigh of relief, in reality the Brexit effect had only just begun. To overcome supply chain disruptions, many online retailers are already making changes to their existing fulfilment operations. Multi-node fulfilment offers additional benefits.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Walmart first began testing a $12 minimum wage in 500 stores in early 2020. The news comes on the heels of an announcement that Walmart plans to permanently hire 20,000 additional warehouse and supply chain workers. In 2020, Walmart edged out Amazon as the leading grocery ecommerce retailer in the U.S. and Secaucus, N.J.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2021

Target will build off its 2020 momentum by investing $4 billion annually in new store openings, remodels for existing stores and supply chain upgrades over the next several years, the retailer announced during an earnings call. billion invested in operations during 2020. The figure represents a substantial increase from the $2.65

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Research from Google indicates that this holiday season will be more omnichannel in nature than any before it, with 64% of consumers saying that they plan to shop both online and in-store. This follows on a huge bump in omnichannel fulfillment options spurred by the pandemic and ongoing product shortages.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Based on customer insights and market trends, Swisslog, as an industry leader with successful micro fulfilment centres (MFCs) and e-grocery fulfilment centres (EFCs) operating across the globe, has identified five trends that will shape e-grocery fulfilment this year. per cent over the five years from 2020-21, to $7.1

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2020

e-Commerce business grew 74% in Q1 2020, and growth in marketplace sales outpaced the overall business even though first-party sales were also strong. Retailers that use Shopify will be able to seamlessly list their products on Walmart.com, giving Walmart customers access to a broader array of items.

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Inside Retail

MAY 9, 2021

Simon Schofield : Despite the impact 2020 had on the retail sector, it certainly was a special year for Witchery. We were able to engage our store teams to assist with online fulfilment. In the past year, one of our proudest initiatives has been formalising our commitment to Reconciliation through our first Reconciliation Action Plan.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 24, 2021

These latest acquisitions follow Zip’s purchase of Quadpay in September 2020. Zip already owned a portion of Twisto, and plans to buy the remaining shares for approximately $108.5 Spotii, founded in 2020, already has integrated 650 merchants into its platform, including flagship regional brands such as Jashanmal and Danube Home.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

All eyes have shifted to e-Commerce as, according to a recent Forrester survey, 42% of consumers do not plan to return to stores after stay-at-home orders are lifted. [1]. With this in mind, there are some key considerations to keep in mind as you begin initiating your Peak 2020 plan. Store Fulfillment Is A Lifeline.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Walmart plans to hire 20,000 seasonal associates at fulfillment centers across the country, at starting hourly rates ranging from $15.75 As more of them turn to online shopping, we want to ensure we’re staffed and ready to help deliver that special gift to their loved ones while continuing to fulfill our customer’s everyday needs.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 9, 2021

FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) aggregator Elevate Brands , which acquires and operates Amazon third-party businesses, has raised an additional $12.5 million in bridge funding from its existing group of fintech and ecommerce business investors. The new capital brings the company’s total funding to more than $67.5 million in 2021.

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