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Automation: The Driving Force Behind Warehouse Management Growth

Retail TouchPoints

A growing retail and ecommerce business can turn an efficient process into a multi-step nightmare with inaccurate purchasing, order fulfillment and returns processes. Drones: Leveraging drones for shipping and delivery fulfillment came to attention when Amazon revealed their ‘Octocopter’ in 2013.

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Selling Swimwear to Alaskans: How 3 Retailers Successfully Expanded on Amazon

BigCommerce

.” Alex thinks about Amazon as simply another sales channel for his business. But a 50% decrease in margins for a highly trafficked and high sales channel doesn’t cause a bit of concern for Alex and his team. That’s how to optimize sales channels. Selling direct and via third party channels has helped us broaden our reach.

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Why You Should Monitor Competitor Prices

Wiser

For a growing business, manually monitoring competitors’ prices across multiple products and channels is not only difficult, it’s nearly impossible. Combining competitor data with your own company performance data allows you to create a more effective multi-dimensional pricing strategy. 3: Data Integration.

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Exclusive Q&A: Venmo GM on the Company’s ‘Natural Extensions’ into Business Payments

Retail TouchPoints

taking place online, digital payment solutions like Venmo and PayPal (which has owned Venmo since 2013) are well positioned to capitalize on the opportunity. And with 50% of global spending in the U.S.

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Sensory Enabling Technologies are Radically Reshaping the Future of Digital Retail

Retail TouchPoints

From 3D billboards to spatial scent to ChatGPT, meet the brands leading the next wave of multisensory retail innovations, and learn best practices to help strengthen your brand’s sensory presence in this new, multi-dimensional experience market. Read part one here , part two here and part three here.

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What is Headless Commerce? The Ultimate Guide for Retailers

Fabric

Headless commerce lets brands deliver seamless experiences across sales channels, providing a consistent customer journey regardless of where and how a customer embarks upon it. This means brands can differentiate the customer experience from channel to channel to create a consistent experience where desired and differentiation when needed.

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API Business Models and How They Future Proof eCommerce

GetElastic

APIs can be described as the connective tissue that enables a multi-solution architecture to deliver business value. Back in 2013, we explored API business models in a blog titled, " 18 API Business Models Deconstructed ," which was based on a presentation called " Open APIs: What's Hot, What's Not? " by John Musser of ProgrammableWeb.

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