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Ikea Exec: Stores’ Expanded Fulfillment Role Key to Maintaining Lower Prices

Retail TouchPoints

Ikea stores, long known as warehouse-sized selling spaces scented with the wafting aroma of Swedish meatballs, have been shrinking and changing functions in recent months — including taking a bigger role in last mile fulfillment. This allowed us to really look into where people are and where they feel it’s convenient to be.

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4 Steps to Operations and Fulfillment Transformation

Retail TouchPoints

Burgeoning demands for exemplary customer service and lightning-fast order fulfillment leave unprepared retailers scrambling for their share of the market. Data-heavy, complex operations hamper efforts to deliver positive customer service interactions, address errors and fulfill orders accurately.

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3 Winning Omnichannel Strategies for Unifying the In-Store and Online Shopping Experiences

Retail TouchPoints

As the divide between digital commerce and in-store shopping shrinks, the spotlight is now on the role omnichannel retail strategies play in both driving traffic to brand’s websites and foot traffic to physical stores. With online purchases making up 15.1%

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A Guide to Omnichannel Commerce for International Expansion

ESW

To keep up with consumer demand, brands and retailers are facing pressure to implement omnichannel commerce strategies. Why focus on omnichannel? Because customers demand it. Eva Ponce , the director of the MIT Omnichannel Distribution Strategies Lab at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics.

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Beyond Click & Collect: True omnichannel retail in 2024

iVend

The term omnichannel has been part of the retail world since around 2010. And still omnichannel retail continues to grow – at a predicted average of 16.4% Over the years however, what constitutes an omnichannel has evolved. In the early days of omnichannel, 15 years ago, the average shopper used two touchpoints to make a sale.

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Digital Transformation Propels Burton’s Omnichannel Growth Plans

Retail TouchPoints

Ready to grow even further, the company launched a digital transformation to swap out its legacy systems, advance customer knowledge through data and provide a truly omnichannel customer experience. Greater Emphasis On DTC Provides Deeper Customer Insights. It’s really a holistic approach,” she said. “We

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Making Fulfillment a Revenue Driver: 6 Ways Design and Tech Can Collaborate

Retail TouchPoints

In the pandemic’s wake, many retailers set up flexible fulfillment services in order to meet new safety guidelines and consumer requirements. Nicholas believes that to make store fulfillment a truly profitable initiative, retailers need to find new ways for their tech, operations and design teams to collaborate.