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

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

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. Even Amazon , the trendsetter in fast fulfillment, isn’t immune to higher labor costs.

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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

MARCH 7, 2024

Executive Chairman Marcus Lemonis said the acquisition is aimed at strengthening Beyond’s position in the off-price market. This acquisition doubles down on our belief in the off-price market, and its importance to building our business, improving our margin profile and growing our customer file,” said Lemonis in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 16, 2022

fulfillment centers. The company has approximately nine fulfillment centers servicing its two U.S. markets and about 200 worldwide. The delivery company is still investing in the region, which accounts for 90% of its business, with plans including further expansion through potential mergers and acquisitions.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

How will consumers and markets respond? 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.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

You can see it with the size of the market segments that we’re going after, the customer bases and the new technology that’s opening up all kinds of new things that we can do together.” fulfillment centers serving the whole country. fulfillment centers serving the whole country. Mindset Shift: Instead of One U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2023

SHEIN has officially launched its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) headquarters in Dublin City Centre, Ireland and is planning to host approximately 30 pop-up store events across the region this year to boost its profile with customers. The news comes as fellow Asia-based discount shopping app Temu picks up steam in the U.S.,

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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. in a statement.

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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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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. Begin with baby steps, she advocates.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 31, 2023

Wish has been in the midst of a massive turnaround effort for more than a year now, and in summer 2022, the app reintroduced itself to consumers with a rebrand and major marketing blitz. And this is just the first of in a series of shopping events Wish has planned for 2023.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 6, 2025

And some seven years on, much to the dismay of retailers, it is now starting to shake the tree and become a real force in the market , as Australian shoppers increasingly turn to alternatives to manage the cost-of-living crisis. Amazon, the $2 trillion gorilla, arrived on our shores officially in December 2017, just in time for Christmas.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

with plans to add approximately 150 new stores to a fleet that already includes 2,100 locations in 37 states. Aldi also plans to increase its number of locations offering curbside pickup from 1,200 to 1,500 by the end of 2022. Discount supermarket chain Aldi is continuing its aggressive expansion across the U.S., by store count.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The USPS also plans to procure 21,000 commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) battery-powered and domestically manufactured delivery vehicles, including 9,250 from the Ford Motor Company, depending on market availability and operational feasibility. As of January 2024, the Postal Service has opened 29 of these S&DCs.

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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. as well as market expansions in Seattle, Portland and New York City in 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 29, 2024

Walmart has opened two new Neighborhood Market stores that are over 40% larger than the average-sized location in this format, boasting 57,000 square feet of selling, pickup and delivery space. In January 2024 , Walmart announced ambitious plans to open 150 new stores and remodel 650 existing locations within the next five years.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2023

some time in 2023, but executives didn’t provide a more specific time frame or the markets it’s planning to enter. “We total addressable market that is over $130 billion , which has grown consistently through the ups and downs of economic cycles,” he noted. Singh believes Chewy still has room to grow within the U.S.

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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

APRIL 21, 2023

The demand for robotics and automation across retail logistics is pushed further by the ever-growing global fashion and ecommerce market value. Along with the boom in online shopping, as more retail activity shifts to ecommerce, fashion retailers in particular are faced with new responsibilities in order fulfillment.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2023

Now Flip is planning an “aggressive” expansion beyond the beauty category in the coming months that is likely to enlarge both its brand portfolio and its user base. “I The product you eventually choose is just the one that was better marketed, it’s not actually the best product.”

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Additionally, the retailer plans to freeze any price increases on its U.S.-owned To do so, we plan to reduce the number of our new stores and renovations in fiscal year 2025 to accommodate a redesign, while also unlocking capital to support our broader turnaround.” 30 conference call discussing Q4 and the just-ended fiscal year. “To

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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

MARCH 24, 2022

Instacart already powers the ecommerce and fulfillment experience for hundreds of retailers across North America. Now the online grocery marketplace has launched a suite of technologies to help its partners continue their digital transformation with new fulfillment , advertising and insights capabilities.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2021

From the increased market share of digitally native brands to decisions from companies like GlobeWest and Homebodii to dial up D2C strategies, shoppers are becoming increasingly accustomed to purchasing products directly from brands. Fulfilment of the future. Direct-to-consumer selling. Which categories are growing the fastest?

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2024

For retailers, 3P commerce provides the ability to offer an increased selection of products and helps reduce the risks of managing fulfillment — an issue we saw firsthand with recent supply chain disruptions,” said Lou Keyes, CEO of Rithum in comments shared with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 21, 2023

The new facility puts next-day delivery within reach of 500,000 additional customers for a total of more than 3 million in the Atlanta market. The facility already is delivering up to 1,500 packages per day, and Target plans to ramp up its capabilities further in the coming months.

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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. Keep reading and discover which order fulfillment option is right for you. Can you fulfill the orders in a timely manner?

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2024

including the delivery service’s in-store mode for its app; “Carrot Tags” with pick-to-light capabilities; and more streamlined pickup fulfillment technology. Schnuck Markets began using Caper Carts last month. In March 2024 Aldi laid out plans to add 800 U.S. In the U.S., Aldi has been on a growth path in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 13, 2022

Instacart has moved closer to a planned IPO after confidentially submitting a draft registration statement with the SEC on May 11, 2022, although specific details were not revealed. Instacart, in a statement to CNN Business , said that the reduction was due to new market conditions. “[We

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2021

To say everyone is worn out is probably an understatement, and by all accounts marketers in particular are feeling the pressure — a staggering 70% of marketing executives said the pandemic has left them “completely exhausted,” according to a new report from Accenture Interactive. Forget About Personalization, Focus on Relevancy.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

stores, to distribution center-based fulfillment of large items like riding mowers, grills and furniture. The retailer’s legacy distribution model had stores operating as nodes in the fulfillment process. Lowe’s kicked off the transition to the market delivery model in 2021 in its Florida and Ohio Valley regions.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

“By removing the sorting and packing process from our store backrooms, we save valuable time and space for our store teams to fulfill additional orders and serve guests,” wrote the retailer in a statement. As Target’s stores fulfill the bulk of online orders, our sortation centers have made this process even faster.”

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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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