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4 Key Steps to Profitable Store-Based Fulfillment

Retail TouchPoints

The dramatic increase in ecommerce volume triggered by the pandemic increased many retailers’ topline revenues, but many are finding it difficult to contain the costs of new types of order fulfillment such as BOPIS, ship-from-store and curbside pickup, according to a report from Incisiv , commissioned by Manhattan Associates Inc. The survey — a hybrid online and computer-aided telephonic interview (CATI) survey of 140+ U.S. retail executives whose stores offered at least one method of store-base

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Storytelling in retail: how to do it right at the point-of-sale

Tokinomo

Everybody loves stories, right? When we were kids we fell asleep listening to them, when we were teens we fell in love with their help, and even as adults we still like a good story. Storytelling is not just for tucking children at night, it’s also for big brands that want to attract shoppers and turn them into loyal customers.

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Media Clutter: how to cut through and connect with shoppers?

Mike Anthony

The world of the shopper is changing rapidly, and that means that the playing field shopper marketers compete on is changing rapidly too. Shopper marketing forums, web pages and events buzz with the latest technology, heralding yet more ways for marketers to communicate with their targets. But whilst all of this new technology offers new shopper communication opportunities, experience suggests that there is a downside to every opportunity.

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Pierre Brocas and Nada Oudghiri design gallery-like eyewear store informed by Memphis movement

Dezeen

Colourful display stands are meant to appear like artworks within this eyewear store in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia created by French designer Pierre Brocas and architect Nada Oudghiri. Located in the Mall of Dhahran, the 100-square-metre retail space is the first flagship store for Dubai glasses brand Eyewa. "Our wish was to move away from typical eyewear retail atmospheres," said Brocas.

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Cut Costs & Complexity: Smarter Fulfillment for Home, Furniture & DIY Brands

Late deliveries. Split shipments. Spiraling freight costs. For home, furniture, and DIY brands, fulfillment has never been more complex—or more critical. This report outlines how a smarter, AI-ready order management system (OMS) helps you reduce shipping costs, streamline project-based fulfillment, and ensure accurate inventory across every channel.

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3 Ways Livestreaming is Shaking Up the Retail Marketing Playbook

Retail TouchPoints

As retailers shift more of their attention and dollars to digital content and community-building activities, livestreaming has moved into the spotlight. Its rampant rise in China is encouraging U.S. and global brands to consider its role in their marketing playbooks. However, lack of clarity around what livestreaming truly is, and how it is best applied in a broader marketing strategy, is making it difficult for companies to realize its true potential.

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Media Clutter: how to cut through and connect with shoppers?

Mike Anthony

The world of the shopper is changing rapidly, and that means that the playing field shopper marketers compete on is changing rapidly too. Shopper marketing forums, web pages and events buzz with the latest technology, heralding yet more ways for marketers to communicate with their targets. But whilst all of this new technology offers new shopper communication opportunities, experience suggests that there is a downside to every opportunity.

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Celebrating International Women’s Day: 9 Female Retailers We Love

Retail Times

Over the years, we’ve connected with retail stores of all shapes and sizes, and a good chunk of them are owned by some amazing women. So, in honor of International Women’s Day, we’ve decided to celebrate some of our favorite female retailers. In this special Vend post, you’ll come across a handful women-owned retail business from all around the world.

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Ross Stores Plans to Open 60 New Locations in 2021

Retail TouchPoints

Ross Stores recently opened four Ross Dress for Less and three dd’s DISCOUNTS stores across five different states in February and March. These new locations are part of the company’s plans to add approximately 60 new stores — 40 Ross and 20 dd’s DISCOUNTS locations — during fiscal 2021, which runs through January 2022. . The off-price apparel and home fashion retailer reported $12.5 billion in revenue for fiscal 2020.

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Supplier Spotlight: A new-fashioned spin on your favorite skincare products

Rangeme

Breaking into the world of skincare is a huge endeavor. Building a skincare brand that stands out to consumers and retailers alike is even more so. Spinster Sisters Co. was able to do both, with what started as a hobby and turned into a cult-like skincare brand selling products in retailers across the country. In this Supplier Spotlight, we hear from Kelly Perkins, CEO and Founder of Spinster Sisters, on how she turned her passion for soap making into a multi-product line business that caught th

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5 Tips for a Winning Category Management Strategy in 2025

Category Management is a cornerstone of a successful retail strategy. While it promotes collaboration between manufacturers and retailers to optimize category performance, challenges persist in its effective implementation due to hurdles in communication and collaboration across teams and partners, and more. In this guide, we outline five essential strategies for success in 2025 that will touch on all the essential pieces of a successful strategy and implementation.

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5 Signs Your 3PL Is Holding You Back

Retail Bound

As your eCommerce business expands, your 3PL should grow with you and eliminate the heavy burden of shipping and fulfillment. Unfortunately, many online retailers have experienced nightmares when partnering with an unreliable shipping partner. While their relationships may have started out strong, they quickly caused endless logistics issues. Here are five common problems retailers experience with bad shipping companies and signs you should look out for with your own partners.

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How Creative Gateways Art Gallery Delivers a “Happiness Experience” Across Multiple Outlets

Retail Times

If you ever find yourself in Arizona, be sure to stop by Creative Gateways , a family of art galleries that offers unique fine art and jewelry experiences. Creative Gateways has three locations across Arizona and online stores, and the business sells a wide range of art and products, including blown glass, stainless steel sculptures, handmade jewelry, and more.

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Lightspeed POS Continues Global Expansion with Acquisition of Vend

Retail TouchPoints

Lightspeed POS , a provider of cloud-based, omnichannel commerce platforms, will acquire cloud-based retail management software company Vend for approximately $350 million. Lightspeed will leverage Vend’s complementary technology stack and user experience capabilities to deliver advanced commerce capabilities to its growing roster of global clients.

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What the Best Brand Protection Software Can Do for You

Wiser

Brand protection can be a bit of a catch-all term, with the definition depending on who you’ve asked. We like to say that brand protection is the process of protecting your intellectual property from a variety of risks, including counterfeits, copyright infringement, inconsistent branding, and inaccurate prices. In general, there are many different risks facing your brand—how people represent your brand online, from the logos to the colors and messaging—to how resellers price your products

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What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker

Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.

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How Ritual Vitamins Makes $663,724/Mo With Google Ads

Store Growers

Last Updated on March 9, 2021. Today we’re taking a closer look at the Google Ads of Ritual Vitamins. The supplement space is hyper competitive. The only way to stay in business is to have a business model that works and to back it up with campaigns that can deliver results. Ritual nails both components, and is doing a lot of interesting things when it comes to Google Ads.

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The Future of Branded Environments?

Miller Zell

The first-annual “ Miller Zell Innovation Scholarship ” asked college students pursuing a degree in business, fashion merchandising, retail, banking, architecture or another related field to provide their thoughts on how they might redesign branded environments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Ulta Beauty Unveils NYC Herald Square Store

Retail TouchPoints

Ulta Beauty has opened a 12,000-square-foot store in New York’s Herald Square that is designed to help shoppers rediscover the fun in beauty in a post-pandemic world. The immersive brand experience promotes exploration and product discovery and offers new, enhanced features, including: An elevated design with high ceilings, artistic lighting and, upon entering, digital screens showcasing brands (other locations use posters); Curated and unique layout to enhance store flow, with checkout now at t

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Wiser Solutions Builds on Its In-Store and Online SaaS Platform with Field Team Management, Expansion into Europe and Latin America

Wiser

Wiser Solutions is bringing its commerce execution suite to more customers around the world, with a major expansion of its core online services into Europe and Latin America. At the same time, Wiser is evolving its U.S. in-store retail execution capabilities for channel and distribution partners that make it easier than ever to identify and resolve brick-and-mortar issues at the shelf.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Grocery Stores and Supermarkets Product Placement Guide

Kuusoft

How do you design and organize product placement in your grocery store or supermarket? Here are six factors to maximize your grocer profits. The post Grocery Stores and Supermarkets Product Placement Guide appeared first on The Official Kuusoft Blog.

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There’s no smooth sailing in retail – omnichannel investment is the key to weathering the storm

Retail Technology Review

By Christophe Pecoraro, Managing Director of PFS Europe. A series of challenges over the last year have brought with them a wealth of era-defining moments for retail. Within a brief and turbulent window of time, we have seen some of the biggest hallmarks of the changing retail landscape.

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Klarna Acquires Shoppable Content Provider to Expand its Capabilities

Retail TouchPoints

Klarna has acquired Toplooks and integrated the solution provider’s AI-powered shoppable content engine into its platform. The acquisition was made to enable a wide variety of shoppable content in native formats on retailers’ own digital properties, through the Klarna ecosystem and across social channels. These capabilities will complement Klarna’s comparison shopping services (CSS), available through Semtail/Shoptail, another recent Klarna acquisition.

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How Much to Charge for Sponsored Posts

Thrifts and Tangles

One of the biggest questions most influencers ask when they first start wanting to work with brands is. The post How Much to Charge for Sponsored Posts appeared first on Thrifts and Tangles.

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SEO vs. PPC: Which Strategy Is Best for Your Business?

When it comes to driving traffic and growing your online presence, businesses often ask: SEO or PPC—what’s the better choice? This guide breaks down the key differences between search engine optimization (SEO) and pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, highlighting their pros, cons, and best use cases. Whether you’re looking for long-term organic growth or immediate visibility through paid ads, we’ll help you determine which strategy—or combination of both—is right for your business.

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Women in Tech: Q&A with a Product Trainer

Cyber Till

3 mins read As part of Cybertill's 2021 International Women's Day activities we are bringing a series of interviews with Cybertill's 'Women in Tech'. Our latest is with Carly, a Product Trainer who started on our Support team and has worked her way up Cybertill over the years.

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Recall Roundup: February

Hunton Andrews Kurth

The CPSC recently announced its first civil penalty of 2021. Cybex International, Inc. (Cybex) agreed to pay $7.95 million after the workout equipment manufacturer allegedly failed to immediately report to the CPSC the defects in two of its products. The first product was an arm curl machine, which had a defective weld that could cause the machine’s handle to separate unexpectedly and strike the consumer in the face.

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How to Adapt Your Ecommerce Business to Increase Sales in 2021

Retail TouchPoints

The global pandemic created by COVID-19 has accelerated the maturation of ecommerce businesses and has led to an increase in online sales. It’s estimated that these figures will continue to rise gradually in 2021, due to the ongoing prevention methods put in place internationally along with the changes in consumer spending habits. According to a study from Digital 2020 , 47% of users have seen a significant increase in the time they spend shopping online.

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How the Field Team at Novamex Stayed Resilient Through COVID-19

RepslyBlog

The COVID-19 pandemic brought an unprecedented amount of challenges and obstacles throughout the 2020 calendar year, forcing many companies to re-examine how they work and operate from the top-down. For many CPG brands and their field teams this, unfortunately, meant reducing headcount, following strict protocols and guidelines, and embracing uncertainty in a time of tumultuous change.

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AI for Commerce: Foundations, Aspirations, and Hype

AI is rapidly transforming digital commerce, but how do you separate real opportunities from hype? Moderated by Orium, AI for Commerce: Foundations, Aspirations, and Hype , experts from Bloomreach , commercetools , Contentstack , and Fluent Commerce explores where AI is already delivering results and where its potential is still unfolding. This masterclass dives into proven AI applications, emerging innovations , and the gaps between promise and reality in commerce.

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Tips for Tenants: Spring 2021

Broad Reach Retail

Create a Buzz this Spring! The days leading up to the four major holidays of the Spring season see an increase in traffic, as well as sales. Plan ahead and start creating a buzz for the upcoming Spring season! Well-timed promotions around holiday gifts and merchandise can help drive both physical and online traffic to your store. Include flash sales, early-bird specials, and loyalty rewards for your best customers.

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In-Store Displays: Reasons Yours Aren’t Working – And What to Do Instead.

Kuusoft

Wondering why your retail in-store displays aren't working properly or bringing you advertising revenue? Learn how to avoid common mistakes. The post In-Store Displays: Reasons Yours Aren’t Working – And What to Do Instead. appeared first on The Official Kuusoft Blog.

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Q4 Roundup: Amazon and Target’s Success Spotlights Fulfillment Prowess, Stores or no Stores

Retail TouchPoints

Fulfillment was a key driver during the ecommerce-driven final quarter of 2020. Retailers that were positioned to handle massive last-mile volumes generated by a digital-first holiday posted strong results, with Amazon once again leading the way. Retailers with a strong omnichannel presence, like Target , are well-positioned for success in the coming year as traffic returns, but even mall-based companies in weaker positions, like Gap , show signs that they can leverage an online pivot to fuel a