Retail Gazette

APRIL 23, 2024

Tesco is under scrunity from the UK’s supermarket regulator, which is is closely monitoring its implementation of an “Amazon-style” fulfillment fee for online suppliers. Tesco said it first introduced a charge as its own fulfilment costs had grown as it expanded its online operations and served more customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2021

Grocers could include links to a set of curated recipes tailored to products purchased, or retailers could invite customers to play a fun trivia game, specific to their purchase, to drive education and anticipation.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 10, 2021

That means open air shopping centers have become even more attractive due to how they can make curbside and BOPIS fulfillment easier to handle. We saw this firsthand in Dallas, where retailers from nationals down to locals are fulfilling from their store, and I think that fits the way people are using physical retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Woodman’s Markets operates 230,000-square-foot stores with approximately 100,000 SKUs each, and like most grocers its inventory was hit hard by shoppers stocking up early in the pandemic. This data will be uploaded to its mobile shopping app, where it will guide pickers to each item to improve delivery times.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2023

Greener stores and fulfillment centers are universal for the industry, but different retailers can have vastly different supply chains — the efforts a grocer makes to reduce the carbon footprint of the products it sells will be very different from the kinds of investments a fashion retailer would choose.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 26, 2023

When scanned, the QR code provides the shopper with detailed information such as care instructions, or connects them with a customer service agent who can arrange to have the correct size shipped directly to the shopper. For example, Australian grocery giant Woolworths is using 2D barcodes to enhance food safety and cut down on food waste.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

With the rapid uptick in online grocery shopping — and given that grocery is already a low-margin business — many grocers are looking for ways to make ecommerce work financially, so it should come as no surprise that marketplaces are increasingly popular in this category.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2021

RTP: Data sharing is a key recommendation that underlies this report. Why is this such an issue for both parties?

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Rangeme

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Shipping delays. Trans-Pacific cargo ships face bottlenecks in major ports like Los Angeles, and these shipping delays threaten access to merchandise. Product prices will continue to rise as companies incur higher shipping, labor, and raw material costs. Source: SEI. 2 Unglesbee, Ben. 12 Lempert, Phil. November 1, 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

In fact, 42% of consumers now expect two-day shipping for every online purchase they make, and 77% are more likely to purchase an item if it can be delivered in two days or less, according to Ware2Go research. It causes some logistics issues at the start, but nothing that can’t be solved.

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Indigo 9 Digital

JUNE 7, 2022

That’s one of the reasons why discount grocers like Aldi and Lidl were able to gain share in the United Kingdom over a decade ago after the last recession. It has attacked the threat from discount grocers head on by offering everyday low prices on a selection of items and it’s paying off. Value for money. Source: Bloomberg.

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Retail Geek

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

That’s a pretty big shot you know most most Grocers are doing these like 224 our windows, um and they’re complaining about sales being wildly unprofitable and so for Kroger to you know who like hasn’t had an awesome service level before to say hey we’re going to deliver in 30 minutes is, it’s an interesting promise I.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 13, 2022

This month you’ve seen all these news articles about Amazon actually having too much warehouse space too much what they call fulfillment center space and how they’re literally trying to sublease space to other people that they may have over-invested, as e-commerce starts to slow down and if you cook to the this next slide. [8:15]

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Indigo 9 Digital

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Marks & Spencer has said it started out with third party brands flowing through its distribution network but it is planning to give sellers the flexibility to use a drop ship model where the brand holds onto its inventory and fulfills the order itself. “M&S’s This is especially the case with Jaeger,” said an industry veteran.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 4, 2023

Part of these efficiencies is a super interesting story essentially what Amazon has decided and what they now seem to have successfully executed is that having a national Supply. [13:27] Learn more about this. Jason: [17:48] Dsps are the third party delivery services that Amazon uses yeah.

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Retail Geek

JULY 7, 2022

Offer Prime benefits and have your orders fulfilled from fulfillment by Amazon. [15:59] Offer Prime benefits and have your orders fulfilled from fulfillment by Amazon. [15:59] So he is a pure digital grocery guy obviously he’s had brought more recently he’s had broader roles it. 15:46] Accept Amazon pay and.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 29, 2023

Jason: [37:26] No exact yeah I mean I think the Grocer’s talk and I hesitate to bring this up because I don’t think I remember I’ll for off the top my head but there’s like four typical types of shopping missions right so there is that like Pantry stocking shop there’s like a weekly shop there’s a.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 21, 2021

It was less and part of me thinks like fundamentally, the UK is an island with much greater density like you like the bananas like we call it it’s ironic that we call it shipping because the bananas don’t have to get on a boat to go like anything that there’s not a ship involved in the UK very often, the.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 7, 2023

48:14] You know Amazon talked about how they’re seeing that they now have 600,000 skews that they ship in 90 markets same day. [48:24] 48:24] And so the big question is what’s the right 600,000 excuse to ship and and which ones in which markets.

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Rangeme

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A Large-Scale Disruption in Container Shipping is Expected to Wreak Havoc on Retail This Christmas. Source: The Grocer. Ulster Grocer. A Large-Scale Disruption in Container Shipping is Expected to Wreak Havoc on Retail This Christmas. Ulster Grocer. 29 Karamperidis, Stavros. The Fashion Law. September 7, 2021. ,

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Retail Geek

MAY 6, 2024

So you’re a footwear manufacturer, you make your shoes in Vietnam, Instead of shipping them to the U.S. On a pallet and paying taxes and duties, you ship them on a pallet to Mexico, and then you send them individual parcels across the border from Mexico into the U.S. There’s like all kinds of talk about it.

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Retail Geek

JULY 9, 2021

Jeff Bezos steps down Amazon offers it’s multi-channel fulfillment (MCF) to Big Commerce customers. Jason: [4:20] Yeah no I think your speculation is probably spot-on you know groceries a tough business to make money like in way instacart isn’t really a grocer that are. Amazon News. Other News.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Karate undesirable products it felt very wish like to me except wishes and happen this is the website, and so my my test purchase I found a short a shirt for sale for 99 cents with free shipping to the United States from China, and so and in fact it was on sale for 30% off so I think my my landed cost for this shirt was like 76 cents.

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Retail Geek

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Scot: [3:46] I feel like we should create a new word for this I’ll work on it in the vein of a ship again yeah that’s just boring I don’t know. If you want to follow along on with all the data, here is a visual recap of retail growth 2020-2021. PDF Download). We also highlight the six most important trends of 2021.

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