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Amazon Continues Push Beyond its Own Ecosystem with Debut of ‘Supply Chain by Amazon’

Retail TouchPoints

Ahead of its annual sellers’ conference, Amazon Accelerate , the tech giant announced the debut of a new suite of solutions for sellers called “Supply Chain by Amazon” (which we are assuming will be acronymized as “SCA” if history is any indicator). Yes, that means brick-and-mortar stores.

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#RICE24 Solution Spotlight: Shopify Creates a Unified Commerce Platform for Merchants

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Shopify provides a unified commerce platform designed to enable seamless customer experiences across all channels while centralizing data and operations for multi-location retail businesses. Additionally, retailers will have a solid backend operation that empowers them to easily and cost-effectively keep pace with industry change.

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How Poshmark’s In-Person Events Drive Livestreaming Results

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Empowering Sellers Year-Round Poshmarks biggest event of the year is PoshFest , an offsite multi-day event that brings hundreds of sellers together for interactive workshops and sessions that give them the tools and best practices they need to scale their resale businesses. If they complain, it means they care.

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It’s Official – Amazon is an Ecommerce Enabler First and a Retailer Second

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Dharmesh Mehta, VP of Worldwide Selling Partner Services at Amazon , is celebrating his 10th anniversary with the company this year, and so he kicked off the fourth annual Amazon Accelerate conference for sellers by comparing the differences between the ecommerce platform today and 10 years ago.

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

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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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Solutions Designed for Retail Associates Need to Keep the Customer Experience in Mind

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Today’s retail workers almost need to have superpowers — moving as fast as The Flash would be helpful given how many different tasks a retail worker performs each day — but adaptable, multi-purpose solutions can provide that extra burst of needed speed. Associate apps also need to reflect operating conditions on the ground.

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2 Things Will Separate Retail Media Winners from the Losers — Data and Scale

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The list, which changes nearly every day, now includes everyone from platforms like Shopify ; multi-category merchants like Macy’s , BJ’s Wholesale Club and Lord & Taylor ; category specialists like Best Buy and HelloFresh ; and even commerce intermediaries like Instacart and Uber.

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