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

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

AUGUST 22, 2024

I got a view of everything around Sephora; I got to see what it was like to do digital marketing, the ecommerce business, the forecasting and planning business,” Turley said in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “I We’re all so conditioned for everything to be on-demand, and the impact is that you don’t plan,” she noted.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2025

Target has ambitious plans to drive an additional $15 billion in sales growth by 2030. The retailer revealed these long-term plans along with financial results of its 2024 fiscal year, which ended Feb. Targets net sales decreased by 0.8% compared to the previous year, falling from $107.4 billion to $106.6 Comparable sales rose 0.1%

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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 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

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 30, 2025

In fact, during the companys Q1 earnings call with analysts, the companys Executive Chairman and Principal Executive Officer Marcus Lemonis announced plans to open four Overstock stores and one BuyBuy Baby location.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Discount shopping app Shein has announced plans to open a Seattle-area office as it continues to expand its U.S. fulfilment and logistics, furthering the company’s ongoing effort to localize fulfillment and support speedier delivery times for American customers. Fulfillment and Logistics at Shein in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2025

According to Elina Vilk, Chief Business Officer of Davids Bridal, the retailer has effectively 90% of the entire market of brides , she shared in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. Here’s how Davids plans to do it. In fact, I’m tapping into them to do a lot of the planning work for our apps.

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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 Gazette

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Morrisons will utilise long-standing tech partner Ocado’s fulfilment centres to help drive its move to more in-store fulfilment, as the bricks-and-mortar grocer reassesses its online grocery operations. Steiner said that the reduced pressure on the Erith fulfilment centre would allow Ocado’s online grocery arm to grow.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2025

All these different sensory elements, including the music playlist, dont feel forced; it feels very authentic in the store, said Jaime Bettencourt, responsible for revenue growth, brand strategy and content marketing at Mood Media in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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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 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

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Amazon hasn’t formally announced its plans for this new Low-Cost Store, but The Information reports that Amazon plans to ship orders to the U.S. from a facility in Guangdong, China, and that it would charge sellers significantly lower fulfillment fees for items sold through the new storefront than items shipped domestically.

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

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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

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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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Since entering the US 39 years ago, Swedish furniture giant Ikea has come to dominate the furniture and home goods market with its wide array of accessibly priced products, unique store layouts and dedication to providing top-tier customer service. per cent in the past five years. This growth is largely thanks to the companys more than US$2.2

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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

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

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 14, 2025

store last month , with another five in development and plans to eventually operate 50 locations in the region. The Steve Madden board of directors has unanimously approved the transaction, which the company plans to fund with a combination of committed debt financing and cash on hand.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2025

We are the last consumer electronics retailer , so how we go to market and what’s important to us both product and experience is very specific to our purpose, said Barry at the NRF Big Show in NYC. How do we uniquely embrace what we do well and bring it to market? Our purpose is to bridge life through technology.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Numerous conferences and sessions held over the first two days provided a comprehensive overview of market trends, featuring many exclusive international speakers. Retail investment has been especially driven by the strong performance of the Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish markets, alongside robust results in the UK.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2025

The fundamentals of our business remain strong with ongoing market share gains, record Neighbors Club members, digital sales in excess of $1 billion and high-return new store openings.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Since then the company has been working on its reinvention, with plans for a new store format and the recent appointment of a new CEO. “At

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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

MARCH 11, 2025

But to plan a successful sweepstakes, youll need more than just an enticing prize. Setting clear campaign goals will keep your sweepstakes focused and measurable, helping boost your brand marketing efforts. At the same time, make sure to keep in mind your campaign budget, prizing regulations and prize fulfillment.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Tractor Supply will purchase the privately held online pet pharmacy Allivet in an all-cash transaction that the retailer plans to fund through its balance sheet. This strategic tuck-in acquisition exemplifies our commitment to delivering value and growth as we expand our total addressable market.”

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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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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 23, 2025

this month, with plans to add locations in New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware in February. Our goal is to make meals easy and help our customers live healthier, better lives through exceptional food,” said Erica Tickle, VP of Marketing and Digital Growth at Wegmans in a statement.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

IR: Can you elaborate on how you plan to decrease the returns rate from 30 per cent, without being detrimental to the customer experience and value proposition that free returns present? And we needed it to decrease the cost of operations of our fulfilment processes. It gives us a lot more flexibility to do a lot of things.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2025

A Connected Grocery Shopping Experience In February 2024 Hy-Vee began leveraging Instacarts Fulfillment-as-a-Service to integrate same-day delivery fulfillment capabilities into its owned and operated websites. Instacart has been an important partner in our marketing strategy, helping us grow sales on their platform by 40% last year.

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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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