Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2022

Instacart has introduced a new Big & Bulky fulfillment service nationwide for same-day scheduled delivery of larger products, which customers can purchase alongside smaller items such as their groceries.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 22, 2024

Now, Sephora is a clear leader in omnichannel execution — and fulfillment has become a key differentiator in the brand experience. To achieve that goal, fulfillment has to be embedded into other functional discussion areas, such as marketing and merchandising. “We We even have to be ahead of customer trends in that regard.”

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Staples will install autonomous item-handling robots in its fulfillment centers as part of a multi-year agreement with RightHand Robotics. Robots have been used in fulfillment centers by a number of brands, including Amazon. Walmart purchased robotics company Alert Innovation in October 2022.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2025

That transformative impact fulfills The North Faces goals for the flagship location, which opened on Londons Regent Street in late March 2024. In October 2022 The North Face unveiled a five- year expansion plan that will add 300 global retail and partner locations, as well as updating existing stores with a refreshed approach.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2022

At the end of 2021, the editors of Retail TouchPoints took a stab at predicting what would happen in ecommerce in 2022. 2022 certainly isn’t turning out how anyone thought it would. 2022 certainly isn’t turning out how anyone thought it would. Not to toot our own horn, but we hit the nail on the head with this one.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Consider these facts: total returns amounted to $743 billion in merchandise in 2023 and in 2022; approximately 16.5% With the growth in ecommerce and higher consumer expectations for convenience, it is essential for retailers to make returns processes as efficient as outbound fulfillment.

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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. The retailer also completed a chainwide rollout of inventory-scanning robots in October 2022. “As

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The news was announced on the company’s Q3 2022 earnings call Nov. CFO Adrian Mitchell said the new store-based DCs are “a low-cost complement to our existing fulfillment network” and will help reduce shipping costs, improve delivery speeds and ensure better utilization of inventory. “We’ve

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

CAUSE, formed in 2022, is seeking longer lunch breaks, increased vacation time and starting wages of $30 per hour; the current pay range is $18 to $24 , according to Amazon. The union flexed its muscles during this past holiday season, striking seven fulfillment centers less than one week before Christmas 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Retail TouchPoints 2022 Retail Strategy & Planning (#RSP22) webinar series, now available on-demand, offered a wealth of tips and best practices across critical areas including pricing, location-based technology, inventory management and marketplaces. Mastercard Spending Data Reveals 4 Key Takeaways for Holiday 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In a first indication of what to expect as we enter the heart of the 2022 holiday season, digital Black Friday sales hit record highs despite inflationary pressures, topping $9.1 However, revenue from curbside fulfillment was up 54% and orders were up 35% for the week of Nov. billion and up 2.3% to $15 billion. 19 through Nov.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 31, 2022

That’s why summer 2022 is prime time for Retail TouchPoints to kickstart holiday coverage. Prediction 5: Holiday 2022 Will Be a True Glimpse of Post-COVID Retail. Many households may be heading back to school, but the holiday season is on the minds of many retail executives.

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Here are three trends that will define the retail industry in 2022 — and likely for years to come: 1. Expediting delivery with last-mile capabilities. If one thing has become clear during the last two years, it’s that consumers value options for convenience.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2025

Many of these items will be available for customers to take home, and for larger items like sofas, the new stores proximity to the Wayfair fulfillment center in McDonough, Ga. In May 2022 Wayfair opened its first AllModern store format in Lynnfield, Mass. will expedite deliveries. overall through the end of 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2022

The early-season surge can be attributed to shoppers’ awareness of potential shipping delays , which also made omnichannel fulfillment a winning solution during that final rush: stores with curbside or in-store pickup options captured 62% of global sales during the Dec. 18 and Dec. 18-31 window. “In

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2023

TikTok is continuing to build out its commerce-related services with the launch of ecommerce fulfillment for companies in the UK selling via TikTok Shop. Now the UK also will be the first market for the company’s new logistics program, called Fulfilled by TikTok (FBT). cubic liters per shipment. 1, 2023, multiple sources report.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Ross Stores has opened 28 Ross Dress for Less and 12 dd’s DISCOUNTS locations across 21 states during September and October, meeting its forecasted growth of opening nearly 100 stores during FY 2022, which ends Jan. billion in Q1 2022, which prompted the retailer to revise its forecast for the remainder of the year. billion to $4.6

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 10, 2024

After relaunching itself as a digital-only retailer in April 2021 under the ownership of Saadia Group , Lord & Taylor added a retail media network to its offerings in December 2022. Saadia Group sold the retailers intellectual property to Regal Brands Group in September 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2022

With 2022 in contention to be the year things “finally, actually” return to “normal” (if we even remember what that looked like!), Pitney Bowes Global Ecommerce offers ecommerce fulfillment, parcel delivery, returns management and cross-border logistics and technology.

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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. Among the offerings is its upgraded fulfillment solution, Carrot Warehouses.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 16, 2022

The company will end operations in New York City and Boston after June 19, 2022 and lay off approximately 50 of its 950 global office staff members. fulfillment centers. The company has approximately nine fulfillment centers servicing its two U.S. business would lose $74 million in 2022 and $84 million in 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Heading into the 2022 peak season, everything old is new again. In an ideal world, no retailer would wind up with excess inventory because they would have the right insights to understand where and when their product most needs to be fulfilled. Take Back Control With Tech-Enabled, End-to-End Supply Chain Management.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2022

Clark has served in managerial positions at a number of fulfillment centers and helped establish the company’s Tokyo fulfillment center, and led the build out Amazon’s transportation network. We also have a solid multi-year plan to fight the inflationary challenges we are facing in 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 5, 2022

In fact, Retail TouchPoints has seen the number of channels used to conduct business grow year after year in its annual Omnichannel and Fulfillment Benchmark Survey. Prediction 2: Diversification of fulfillment services will be key to omnichannel success. The store has become a central hub for omnichannel fulfillment.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

Retailers will now be able to plug into Walmart Commerce Technologies’ Store Assist local fulfillment services and the Walmart GoLocal delivery solution through the Salesforce AppExchange. The same technology that powers Store Assist has enabled Walmart to fulfill over 830 million orders across over 4,700 Walmart stores.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2022

The new positions will support both Amazon and Amazon Web Services (AWS), with a focus on software development, product management and engineering, in addition to operations teams jobs in fulfillment centers, sort centers and delivery stations. In 2022, Amazon also set out to create 1,500 new apprenticeships across 40 different departments.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 28, 2023

billion in Q1 2022. Amazon put an emphasis on convenience as a driver for its retail business during the quarter: nearly 26 million customers utilized same-day delivery, up 50% compared to Q1 2022, according to CEO Andy Jassy. While Amazon’s retail sales growth held steady from 2022, AWS’ growth of 16% to $21.4

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2023

Using its 1,700+ stores to support fast fulfillment, Lowe’s has expanded same-day delivery services across the U.S. The retailer began piloting same-day delivery with OneRail in select markets in 2022. The retailer began piloting same-day delivery with OneRail in select markets in 2022. in partnership with OneRail.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 5, 2022

This scaling back follows a disappointing Q1 2022, during which the ecommerce giant reported a $3.8 billion net loss, which was partially driven by $6 billion in added costs — including the cost of operating its massive fulfillment network. Mastercard’s May 2022 SpendingPulse report found that ecommerce grew 2.2% year-over-year.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Bringg began working with UK supermarket retailer Asda in May 2022 and partnered with POS platform National Retail Services to support home delivery services for 19,000 small retailers in Aug ust 2022.

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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 has converted eight of its regions, covering more than half its nearly 1,800 U.S. During the call on Nov.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

At the beginning of 2022, the company appointed Vijay Talwar as CEO as the final piece of a complete C-suite overhaul. At the Wish 2022 Global Merchant Summit , shipping costs were the banner topic. The immediate results appear to have not satisfied the Wish Board and investors though, because Talwar was out after a mere seven months.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Items will be fulfilled from Sephora’s 500+ U.S. Additionally, consumers can shop on Sephora’s website for same-day delivery powered by DoorDash Drive, the company’s white label fulfillment platform. BJ’s Wholesale Club selected DoorDash as its grocery delivery partner across 226 stores in March 2022. Items from U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 7, 2022

This expansion of its omnichannel offerings reflects growth plans that the retailer outlined in January 2022, when it revealed its goal of increasing annual sales to $8 billion to $10 billion and, over the next six to seven years, adding 500 new stores to its existing roster of more than 1,400 locations. through a new partnership with Shipt.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 21, 2024

The transition began at the company’s automated fulfillment center in Ohio and offered a test-and-learn opportunity for the larger rollout. I’m so excited we’re changing over to paper,” said Christian Garcia, a fulfillment associate at the BFL1 fulfillment center in Bakersfield, Calif.

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