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Bed Bath & Beyond to Return to Brick-and-Mortar via Small-Format Stores Operated by Kirkland’s

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Kirkland’s will become Beyond’s exclusive brick-and-mortar operator and licensee for a series of small-format (up to 15,000 square feet) “neighborhood” Bed Bath & Beyond stores. Beyond also will support Kirkland’s digital transformation through improvements in its ecommerce technology.

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The ABC’s of Operations: How to Manage Your Ecommerce Back-Office Operations

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With more and more companies rushing to move from offline to online, we find ourselves in a modern-day gold rush.…

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CarParts.com Taps Former Amazon Exec as COO

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Former Amazon Fresh Grocery VP Michael Huffaker has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer of CarParts.com as the ecommerce retailer looks to “continuously stay ahead of the curve.”. I am confident we can enhance operations, accuracy and profitability for the company today and in the years to come.” ”

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Drinks Aims to ‘Demolish the Barriers to Alcohol Ecommerce’ with New Software Offering

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Alcohol ecommerce solution Drinks has launched the “Drinks-as-a-service” (DaaS) platform, a subscription software solution that will allow any brand, merchant or ecommerce operator to navigate the various tax and compliance impediments to selling alcohol online.

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How Will DTC Rebound After The COVID Retail Shakeup?

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Alex Song, the founder and CEO of DTC investor/operator Innovation Department, remarked in Venture Beat about the growing “DTC purgatory” of brands. He has over 20 years of experience in business development, e-Commerce, technology, B2B and startups. Song cited Honest Company, Glossier and Casper.

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AI: Hype vs. Reality

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While it’s quite likely that each one of these technologies may be a decent solution for any given function, or even a specific task or process within a function, the fact is that none of them are connected, limiting their overall effectiveness and, quite frankly, introducing even greater operational complexity into an already complicated operation.

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21 Sessions, Presentations and Workshops You Can’t Miss at IRCE 2018

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This half-day event on June 5 is limited to only 250 attendees and includes speaking tracks from Jennifer Fleiss, Co-founder of Rent the Runway, Ken Natori, President of The Natori Company, Jenny Buchar, Senior Manager, Digital Operations at SkullCandy and others. Jenny Buchar, Senior Manager, Digital Operations.

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