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Crystal Ball Time: What Will Motivate the 2026 Consumer?

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Discussing what will be motivating consumers two years from now, Buzasi called 2026 “the year of redirection,” predicting that people will be looking for coping mechanisms to deal with what she termed “the great exhaustion,” a lingering hangover from COVID-19, political division and culture wars.

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Walmart Debuts Second In-Store Fulfillment Center in Bentonville

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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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4 Steps to Operations and Fulfillment Transformation

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With ecommerce already on the upswing and expected to grow to one-quarter of all global retail sales by 2026, retailers have a golden opportunity to capitalize on this disruptive time and protect their brand against future supply chain bottlenecks while establishing themselves as industry leaders.

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Want to Cut the Cost of Fast Fulfillment? It All Starts with Inventory Placement

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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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Target’s New Last Mile Facility Adds Next-Day Delivery for 500,000 in Atlanta Market

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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. Target has opened a Target Last Mile Delivery (TLMD) extension near its store in Smyrna, Ga.

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Target Invests $100 Million in Sortation Centers to Enhance Store-As-Hub Strategy

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Target will expand its next-day delivery capabilities by investing $100 million in its sortation center network to open six additional facilities by 2026. As Target’s stores fulfill the bulk of online orders, our sortation centers have made this process even faster.”

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Sneaker and Sportswear Ecommerce: the ‘Non-Luxury’ Luxury Apparel Leader 

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Nike is a standout performer in the apparel market with the highest brand value of any mass apparel brand, approximately $110 billion, and in 2020 the global sneaker market was valued at approximately $79 billion , which is predicted to hit $120 billion by 2026. Yet stock is nothing without the right infrastructure in place.

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