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Sears must think we’re stupid or gullible. Here’s why.

Steve Dennis

Referring to customers as “members” may sound good, but it connotes a strength of relationship and value that clearly does not exist. The program has always been an expensive gimmick to collect customer data. If Sears does not quickly and dramatically improve its performance with its customers nothing else matters.

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5 Ways Ecommerce Companies Can Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

Smile.io

Reduce your packaging size and make it more sustainable Have you ever received a big parcel with small products inside and the rest of the space is filled with other materials? Vendors often ship products in standard-sized boxes with a lot of empty space left, which they cover with additional useless things.

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Top 4 Ways Retailers Can Differentiate Using Unified Commerce

Wiser

So much of unified commerce has to do with personalization and acting on customer data properly. After all, sending shoppers general promotions and incongruent product recommendations will simply turn them away. Take Best Buy, for example. There’s no reason to make shoppers wait and, in turn, discourage their purchases.

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How Established Brands Can Reap the Rewards of Direct-to-Consumer eCommerce

ESW

In the meantime, natively direct brands — which create, market, sell and ship products to customers themselves, without intermediaries — are thriving because they were born with a customer-experience mindset. They intuitively understand the power of focusing on customer experience and engagement.

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Is Dropshipping Legal? The Ethics and Risks of Dropshipping

Ecommerce Platforms

For instance, if you explore private label dropshipping, you can create a custom-branded product, and experiment with different formulas and designs, without encountering the risk involved with purchasing large numbers of a specific product.

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Best Fulfillment Center in New York and the Surrounding Areas

Ecommerce Platforms

Shopify Fulfillment has a data control center for checking into customer data, managing real-time information, and using the end-to-end package tracking. What's great about this is that you can manage customer data from all sales channels in one place. Advantages.

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Ecwid Review 2019: Is it the Best Free Ecommerce Solution for Any Website?

Ecommerce Platforms

You can rest easy knowing that you and your customers' data is safe and secure. Apart from typical ecommerce tools, you can get add-ons for reward schemes, customer support, accounting, analytics, shipping, product management, dropshipping and store management. Don’t get me wrong though.