Retail TouchPoints

MAY 24, 2023

Walmart has opened an in-store Market Fulfillment Center (MFC) at Store 100 in its home town of Bentonville, Ark. This new order fulfillment system is truly game-changing,” said Ryan Simpson, Store Manager at Store 100 in a statement. Like the retailer’s first MFC , which opened in 2019 in Salem, N.H.,

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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

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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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 5, 2023

Amazon is rolling out new AI-powered technology across its warehouses to detect damaged goods in a bid to decrease the number of damaged items sent to customers and speed up the fulfillment process, The Wall Street Journal reports. MIT Professor Dr. Yossi Sheffi, author of The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2022

Retailers who utilize Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) will be able to add Buy with Prime to their own checkout process, which will allow Prime members shopping there to utilize Amazon Pay and benefit from two-day shipping and free returns. Amazon plans to eventually offer the service to merchants who don’t sell on its marketplace or use FBA.

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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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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

OCTOBER 31, 2022

“This fall, we opened our 2,000 th store and continued to expand Ross and dd’s footprints across our existing markets as well as in our newer states,” said Gregg McGillis, Group EVP of Property Development at Ross Stores in a statement. “In billion in Q1 2021 to $4.3 billion in Q1 2021 to $4.3 billion to $4.6

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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 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

MAY 24, 2022

Asda, which operates 640 stores including supercenters, superstores and supermarkets, also will work with Bringg to upgrade its fulfillment capabilities. These investments align with the company’s intentions to strengthen its omnichannel strategy and a three-year plan to invest $1.3

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Retail Wire

JUNE 21, 2023

UPS workers have authorized a strike against the delivery service if negotiations between the Teamsters and the company fail to produce a deal on a new five-year labor contract. Workers are seeking better working conditions and a more significant cut of the company’s profits. UPS’s profits have risen $11.5

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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

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Retailers know that despite high inflation and a volatile economy, consumer expectations are at an all-time high. A simple look at FedEx or UPS rates shows that your profits will take a significant hit if you have to deliver products from a single warehouse. Rise of Omnichannel Fulfillment. Is your inventory going to expand?

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Range and Wilko’s parent firm CDS Superstores has partnered with THG Fulfil , the delivery solution from the online group’s Ingenuity arm, which will provide fulfilment and courier management services for the chains. The tie-up will support the home, leisure and garden retailers’ omnichannel expansion.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2022

million-square-foot fulfillment center in China Grove, N.C., Once the automated direct-to-consumer fulfillment center is fully operational, the retailer said it will employ approximately 2,800 workers and account for 30% of Macy’s digital supply chain for customers nationwide. scheduled for completion in 2024. and Martinsburg, W.Va.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Labor shortages, stressed supply chains and a major emphasis on ecommerce have turned fulfillment into one of the biggest challenges retailers will face in the 2021 holiday season. With so much at stake, retailers must get fulfillment right or risk being left behind.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2021

Majid Al Futtaim , the exclusive franchisee of French hypermarket chain Carrefour in the United Arab Emirates, has opened a fully automated micro-fulfillment center (MFC) at the Carrefour store in Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai. Majid Al Futtaim operates 350+ Carrefour locations in 17 countries across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

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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

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

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 23, 2022

In the pandemic’s wake, many retailers set up flexible fulfillment services in order to meet new safety guidelines and consumer requirements. Because of COVID, a lot of plans that were expected to take place over several years were immediately squeezed,” he explained in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 20, 2023

Plans include opening new stores, strengthening its fulfillment network and enhancing its regional product offerings to better reflect the needs of customers in different parts of the country. ramp up our fulfillment capacities and make our offer even more relevant to local customers’ needs and dreams.” billion in its U.S.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Postal Service has launched an online ecommerce catalog powered by Toys ‘R’ Us for the fulfillment of gifts in its Operation Santa program. USPS Operation Santa has connected communities through holiday goodwill for over a century,” said Sheila Holman, VP of Marketing at USPS in a statement.

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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

MARCH 3, 2022

Target has big plans for 2022, with the retailer announcing plans to invest up to $5 billion this year to open new stores, enhance its digital, fulfillment and supply chain capabilities, and expand its shop-in-shop concept with Ulta Beauty. and New York’s Times Square.

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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

JULY 15, 2021

Its capabilities include forecast and optimization technologies that are compatible with allocation, fulfillment, assortment and pricing solutions.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Instacart also is planning to extend pick-to-light to its Caper Carts smart carts, which will enable customers to have shelf labels flash for items — whether from their shopping list or an ad or coupon they see — directly from their cart. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 16, 2022

fulfillment centers. The company has approximately nine fulfillment centers servicing its two U.S. JOKR also is operating at a loss in Latin America, but they are totaling less than $10 million a month, according to Bloomberg. At the time a spokesperson said the company was leaving Europe to focus on the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2023

Walmart plans to introduce automation at nearly two-thirds of its stores and aims to have approximately 55 % of its fulfillment center volume move through automated facilities by the end of fiscal 2026. The event was held at the retailer’s Brooksville, Fla.

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Mass Relators

JUNE 2, 2022

Walmart said it plans to build four next-generation fulfillment centers that, combined with its existing facilities, will let it offer 95% of the U.S. will use a combination of people, robotics and machine learning to make the fulfillment of online orders faster and more efficient, the company said. BENTONVILLE, Ark. population.

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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. E-grocery orders get smaller and more frequent. .

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Mass Relators

JUNE 20, 2022

Wal­mart says it plans to build four next-generation fulfillment centers that, combined with its existing facilities, will let it offer 95% of the U.S. will use a combination of people, robotics and machine learning to make the fulfillment of online orders faster and more efficient, the company says. BENTONVILLE, Ark.

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