Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 27, 2024

Instacart has launched the Instacart Developer Platform (IDP) , a publicly available API program that will enable third-party companies to integrate Instacart’s fulfillment and delivery functionality into their websites and apps. for meal planning or cooking content, for example).

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2024

However, at last week’s Delivering the Future event in Nashville, Tennessee, the retail giant announced major plans to combine choice and convenience for its customers. The way we see it: It’s still Day 1,” stated Tony Hoggett, senior vice president of worldwide grocery stores at Amazon. asked Varadarajan.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The first new store concept recently opened outside of Houston, and Target plans to utilize the format in half of the 200 store remodels and almost all of the 30 new stores planned for 2023. The new design, which features a more open layout and localized elements, will also be incorporated into future remodels across the chain.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2023

By my recollection, the world of flexible fulfillment hit an inflection point about 15 years ago. It was at that point that putting the technology and operations in place to fulfill from an increasingly complex supply chain network embarked upon its next frontier. Let’s start with demand forecasting and inventory deployment.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2023

Sam’s Club is embarking on an ambitious expansion of its physical footprint, beginning with five new fulfillment and distribution centers opening this year — the first, in Georgia, in Q3 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Amazon will increase pay for hourly frontline workers in its transportation and fulfillment network by at least $1.50 Sam’s Club also increased compensation for hourly workers earlier this week , announcing a plan that will see associates’ wages rise faster within their pay range, increasing between 3% and 6% based on years of service.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Walmart , which had announced plans to open four next-generation fulfillment centers in June 2022 , will build a fifth location scheduled to open in 2026 in Stockton, Calif. The 900,000-square-foot facility will help Walmart fulfill online orders for West Coast customers more quickly and efficiently. “In in a statement. “In

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The problems with getting products to people quickly and cheaply are well-known: consumers want fast fulfillment, which is costly to provide, but they don’t want to pay high (or really any) shipping fees. Unemployment is at 3.5% Even Amazon , the trendsetter in fast fulfillment, isn’t immune to higher labor costs.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2023

Fulfillment Item Forecasting, Fulfillment Order Forecasting and Fulfillment Labor and Resource Forecasting were designed to enable retailers to better solve these challenges: • Fulfillment Item Forecasting aims to forecast demand based on consumers’ order specifications and aggregate the data within a given postal code.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2024

Zulily Group has engaged the advisory firm Gordon Brothers to sell off more than $85 million of inventory and the assets of its two fulfillment centers following the online retailer’s decision late last year to shut down. Screenshot of the Zulily website from December 2023 highlighting the going-out-of-business sale.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

“Our decision to invite sellers into our store nearly 25 years ago was one of the best things we ever did for our customers, because the sellers brought in this just amazing array of products and brands and great prices,” he said at the Amazon Accelerate conference for its third-party sellers earlier this month. “It

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2024

Executive Chairman Marcus Lemonis said the acquisition is aimed at strengthening Beyond’s position in the off-price market. plans to relaunch Overstock.com as a standalone site later this month. Newly appointed Beyond, Inc. Beyond paid $4.5 Beyond paid $4.5 Now Beyond, Inc.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Instead of preemptively cutting back, many are planning to spend more this year. That’s right, retailers are planning to “invest their way through the recession,” according to new benchmark research from digital transformation company Mercaux conducted by CensusWide. This trend is even more pronounced among CEOs in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

These facilities are significantly smaller than traditional fulfillment centers but are designed to prepare items for immediate delivery — and Amazon is poised to expand from 45 same-day sites (as of 2019) to at least 150 in the next several years, according to MWPVL International. per package, compared to $1.75

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 10, 2024

Ikea stores, long known as warehouse-sized selling spaces scented with the wafting aroma of Swedish meatballs, have been shrinking and changing functions in recent months — including taking a bigger role in last mile fulfillment. It’s also giving you the opportunity to plan your space yourself, and then to buy.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2023

is betting big on going small, with plans to open up to 30 new small-format locations across the country in 2024. The planned expansion is in addition to the nearly 15 small-format stores that the retailer already operates. Macy’s Inc.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 19, 2023

Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Amazon for workplace safety violations at three of its warehouses, a decision that Amazon said it will appeal. “We’ve cooperated fully, and the government’s allegations don’t reflect the reality of safety at our sites. .

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 20, 2024

Former Walmart exec and Jet.com founder Marc Lore and his newest company Wonder Group have raised $700 million from various investors to support its Vision, Capital and People (VCP) plan , which is designed to support the business’ execution and scale, Lore revealed in a LinkedIn post. both of which are scheduled to open this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The retailer also has signed leases for planned new stores in four locations: Potomac Mills in Woodbridge, Va.; Mall at Prince George’s in Hyattsville, Md.; The retailer currently operates 24 stores across nine states, with plans to create a 60 -store footprint in the U.S. Primark has opened it second U.S. in a statement.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 19, 2024

Tara Daly, senior director of product marketing at Loop Returns , shares with Inside Retail advice on getting started in the US market, some tips on cross-border shipping and logistics – including managing returns in a way that builds customer loyalty – and how to drive repeat business. The post Planning to sell online in the US?

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 31, 2023

And this is just the first of in a series of shopping events Wish has planned for 2023. As an operating partner at one of Wish’s longest-running investors, GGV Capital , Yan has long had an insider’s view of the business. Joe Yan, CEO, Wish Central to Wish’s turnaround effort has also been a drawn-out reshuffling of its C-suite.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A decade ago, most of the sellers on Amazon were resellers (people selling other people’s products, either aftermarket or otherwise), Dharmesh Mehta, VP of Worldwide Selling Partner Services at Amazon shared during the 4th annual Amazon Accelerate conference for sellers. Hustle Clean Co-founders Justin Forsett and Wale Forrester.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The United States Postal Service (USPS) recently unveiled its first round of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at a new Sorting and Delivery Center (S&DC) in Atlanta, Ga. In addition, the Postal Service anticipates adding at least 45,000 battery-electric Next Generation Delivery Vehicles (NGDVs) by 2028.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In internal fulfillment, the business handles the complete process of storing, packing and shipping. In contrast, 3PL services oversee the order fulfillment cycle on behalf of the company. In contrast, 3PL services oversee the order fulfillment cycle on behalf of the company. Each option has its benefits and disadvantages.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2023

Walmart ’s latest sustainability initiatives combine changes to its fulfillment processes as well as customer-facing options for reducing waste, including allowing online shoppers to opt out of plastic bags for store pickup orders and to request consolidation of multiple items into fewer boxes. in a statement. “Our in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Following a Q4 that its new Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol termed “very disappointing,” Starbucks will make a number of changes designed to improve both the customer and associate experience at its cafés. Additionally, the retailer plans to freeze any price increases on its U.S.-owned For FY 2024, which ended Oct.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2024

For example, Floor & Décor faces several forecasting and inventory planning challenges because one of its core products, flooring, is usually only purchased twice in an average consumer’s lifetime. Floor & Décor also prides itself on having a large in-stock selection at its more than 225 stores.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 6, 2025

Among Amazon shoppers in the UK, 70 per cent now shop there at least once a month, while 17 per cent use the online marketplace weekly. Critical to its success has been driving the uptake of Amazon Prime membership, which stands at more than 19 million subscribers a month in 2024, driving frequency and stickiness of shoppers.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2022

FedEx is planning to cut an additional $1 billion in costs, citing weak demand that led to a disappointing profit for Q2 2023, which ended Nov. The reductions will add to cost-cutting measures announced in September to bring FedEx’s total fiscal savings plan for 2023 to $3.7 FedEx had expected revenue of $23.7

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 29, 2023

“We wanted to make a fun, dynamic place for party hosts to find everything they needed in one place while being inspired by new ideas and products they might not have tried yet,” said Aspen Stough, Director of Digital Merchandising at Shipt in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2023

He will be tasked with implementing new technologies including a modern ERP platform, a headless ecommerce solution, new finance and operations planning tools and a new product lifecycle management platform. Stockstill has held high-level legal positions at Vans, Billabong and its portfolio of brands.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 19, 2023

Starbucks and DoorDash have expanded their delivery partnership to Northern California, Texas, Georgia, Florida and other select markets, with plans for availability in all 50 states by March 2023. The program has received positive feedback following pilots in Atlanta, Houston and Sacramento, Calif.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The company also announced that it was testing out same-day delivery in 75 stores with plans to expand to thousands of stores if the test performs well. New Project Elevate Plan Features Light-Touch Remodels of More Mature Stores In the retailers fiscal 2025 (which ends Jan.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Target is adding Starbucks options to its Drive Up curbside service at 240 stores in California, Delaware, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington and West Virginia. At that time the customer can indicate that they are en route via the Target app and place an order from the full Starbucks Café menu.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 30, 2023

These stores offer products and services at attractive prices to reach a broader group of consumers. Freshippo also has established strategic partnerships with 13 global retail groups, international brands, global associations and consulting companies in Shanghai and announced plans to set up eight purchasing centers globally.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Many are operating now, in time for the holiday season, and Walmart plans to expand the stations to additional stores next year. Today we have over 4,000 stores operating as delivery hubs, fulfilling and delivering a variety of different order types,” wrote Jennifer McKeehan, SVP, Transportation and Delivery at Walmart in a blog post.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2021

But many retailers are seeing opportunities in using those locations as micro-fulfillment centers. Some 300 of Tesco’s 7,200 stores fulfill orders in a similar fashion. Some 300 of Tesco’s 7,200 stores fulfill orders in a similar fashion. Azita Martin is General Manager of AI for Retail and CPG at NVIDIA. In the U.S.,

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