Inside Retail

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Amazon will also charge sellers lower fulfilment fees for products sold through the new storefront. The post Amazon planning ultra-cheap site to counter Temu, Shein appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. The company will ship the items to US customers directly from a facility in Guangdong, China.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Walmart , which had announced plans to open four next-generation fulfillment centers in June 2022 , will build a fifth location scheduled to open in 2026 in Stockton, Calif. The 900,000-square-foot facility will help Walmart fulfill online orders for West Coast customers more quickly and efficiently. “In in a statement. “In

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Walmart has entered an agreement to acquire Alert Innovation , a robotics automation company that develops material-handling technology for automating order fulfillment in retail supply chains. Walmart has been working with Alert to customize technology for its market fulfillment centers (MFCs) since 2016. in a blog post.

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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. MFCs will significantly increase the number of orders a store can fulfill in a day, according to a Walmart blog post , providing faster fulfillment with less substitutions and freeing up associates to help in-store customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2023

Walmart is reportedly eliminating hundreds of jobs at five ecommerce fulfillment centers, according to Reuters and CNBC. The affected fulfillment centers are located in Pedricktown, N.J.; Fort Worth, Texas; Chino, Calif.; Davenport, Fla.; and Bethlehem, Pa.

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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

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

JUNE 27, 2024

In its latest move to combat the growth of discount Chinese shopping apps Temu and Shein , Amazon is reportedly planning to add its own China-direct section, according to The Information. Amazon told Chinese sellers that it would start signing up merchants this summer and plans to begin accepting inventory in the fall.

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Looking ahead, we remain confident in our expansion plans and continue to see plenty of opportunity to grow to at least 2,900 Ross Dress for Less and 700 dd’s DISCOUNTS locations over time.” During Q2 2022, Dollar General opened 227 new stores, remodeled 533 locations and relocated 30 shops as part of its expansion plan.

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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. This is how Amazon plans to deliver choice and convenience to consumers without compromising on speed or value.

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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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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Ebay, Australia’s second-largest online marketplace, is launching a fulfilment service for vendors opening the way for 40,000 local sellers to contract out deliveries. The program has been set up in partnership with the global logistics firm, Orange Connex, launching with two Sydney fulfilment centres.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2022

Shopify will acquire fulfillment solution provider Deliverr for $2.1 With the Deliverr acquisition and integration of its 6 River Systems ’ warehouse automation technology, the ecommerce platform plans to fortify its Shopify Fulfillment Network (SFN).

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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 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

Single- or even two-warehouse fulfillment approaches force brands to choose between 1. To meet consumer expectations, brands are designing flexible, dynamic fulfillment strategies to deliver at the speed and cost consumers demand. Rise of Omnichannel Fulfillment. Is your inventory going to expand?

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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 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

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

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

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.

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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. Store-Based Fulfillment Is Key, but the Right Tools Must Be in Place.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2024

The transaction excludes all of Zulily’s liabilities, liens and debts, as well as the company’s remaining inventory and two fulfillment centers, which advisory firm Gordon Brothers was engaged to sell off in late January 2024. plans to relaunch Overstock.com as a standalone site later this month. Beyond paid $4.5 Now Beyond, Inc.

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Inside Retail

JULY 13, 2021

Woolworths has announced plans for a new online fulfilment centre in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire, aiming to better serve the region spanning from Engadine to Kurnell – adding a further 15,000 potential customers to its home delivery and direct-to-boot pick up offers. An artist’s render of the site. Source: Supplied.

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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

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 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 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 27, 2021

In an aim to increase speed and convenience for its customers, Walmart is scaling up the number of stores that also will serve as local fulfillment centers, adding dozens of locations with many more to come. Walmart piloted its first local fulfillment center in Salem, N.H., in late 2019. on the company’s corporate website.

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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

AUGUST 21, 2020

Amazon plans to invest $1.4 In Manhattan, where Amazon has acquired the Fifth Avenue building that previously housed Lord & Taylor , the company plans to accommodate approximately 2,000 workers in 630,000 square feet of new office space. 11 Fulfillment And Delivery Centers To Open In Metro Phoenix.

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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 Gazette

MAY 7, 2024

It noted the “substantial improvement” in profitability was driven by lower fulfilment costs and successful inventory management, which contributed to a 1.3% Both of our growth vectors are strong and contributing to results, demonstrating the strength of our plans.” adjusted group EBIT margin. to £1.89bn (€2.2bn).

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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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