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Amazon is Moving Beyond its Own Walls Like Never Before…What Will it Mean for Retail?

Retail TouchPoints

Last week, at the company’s fifth annual Accelerate conference for its third-party selling partners (which now account for 60% of its sales, by the way), Amazon continued down a path that it started on 24 years ago, when it first turned its website into a third-party marketplace. And the answer is maybe we are.

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Ulta Beauty, American Eagle Share How Supply Chain Investments Can Drive the Entire Company

Retail TouchPoints

Supply chain and last mile challenges have been grabbing headlines for months, and executives from Ulta Beauty , American Eagle and others shared their advice on how retailers can turn these troubles into opportunities at the Home Delivery World logistics conference. This will reduce walking for our associates by 47%.”.

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ChannelAdvisor User Conference East: Optimization is Coming

ChannelAdvisor

Every year, we host our Catalyst conference that’s quickly become the industry standard in e-commerce events. Thus, the ChannelAdvisor User Conference was born. The 2016 User Conference East took place last Thursday, October 7 at the beautiful Washington Duke Inn in Durham, North Carolina. Key takeaway: Pick the right strategy!

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Retail Media: Everything You Need to Know

Retail TouchPoints

Off-site advertising is when a retailer helps advertisers reach its customers on third-party channels like social media or other websites it doesn’t own (“retargeting” is a common example of this). shoppers) and a direct connection to the actual end transaction.

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Commerce Trends for 2018: #1 Personalization in B2B

GetElastic

Multi-touchpoint commerce. Customers expect to interact with B2B brands across many touchpoints including web, mobile, in-app, social, as well as in person. Yet, according to Forrester , only 23% of B2B marketers feel they have customer-centric systems that allow multi-touchpoint commerce. trillion prize.

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The New Era Of Retail Hybridization Creates Unparalleled Opportunities

Steve Dennis

Unfortunately, much like the years-long fascination with the “retail apocalypse” and just about all things omni-channel, there is some truthiness in all this, but not much that provides tangible strategic guidance. However, many remarkable retailers—including “old dogs” like Walmart, Target , Best Buy and Tractor Supply Co.,

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ShopTalk 2018: Lessons in hope, reality and denial

Steve Dennis

As everyone should realize by now, the future of retail will not be evenly distributed — yet at the conference there was solid optimism. In the vast majority of cases, regardless of where the ultimate transaction is made, most customer journeys start in a digital channel–and more and more, that means on a mobile device.

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