Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Hy-Vee will leverage Instacart ’s Fulfillment as a Service (FaaS) to integrate same-day delivery fulfillment capabilities into its owned and operated websites and apps. Technology partner Upshop facilitated the FaaS integration into Hy-Vee’s systems.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The company must have a warehouse to keep its inventory, and a logistics team to manage the goods for storing, ordering and shipping directly to stores/distributors or customers. In contrast, 3PL services oversee the order fulfillment cycle on behalf of the company. How technologically advanced are your operations?

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 19, 2024

By integrating this new system into fulfillment spaces, Ikea’s operations will “run continuously,” the company shared in an announcement. Ikea initially adopted drone technology in 2021 when it partnered with AI and robotics company Verity to develop an autonomous drone solution for warehouses. this summer.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

It has not always been announced with great fanfare, but the retail industry is increasingly turning to radio frequency identification (RFID) as more benefits are uncovered. While the use of RFID in retail had a brief hiatus in the early 2000s, the industry has been encouraged by lower implementation costs. RFID Supports Omnichannel.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 30, 2020

Acquia , a digital experience company, and Kibo have announced a strategic partnership designed to help retailers deliver frictionless commerce. Acquia’s open digital experience platform is a perfect fit for Kibo’s e-Commerce technology, allowing our clients to easily achieve the true potential of each customer interaction at scale.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 24, 2023

Like the retailer’s first MFC , which opened in 2019 in Salem, N.H., the new center uses the Alphabot automated storage and retrieval technology developed by Alert Innovation. This new order fulfillment system is truly game-changing,” said Ryan Simpson, Store Manager at Store 100 in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2023

Manhattan Associates has enhanced its POS and store fulfillment solutions with handheld RFID support to assist with all inventory management and order fulfillment activities.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As consumers increasingly adopt hybrid and omnichannel experiences, retailers must adapt to meet changing consumer expectations. However, many retailers struggle to deliver these experiences because of limited resources and a lack of expertise. Offer rapid turnaround for on-premise orders. How do These Strategies Drive Results?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A growing retail and ecommerce business can turn an efficient process into a multi-step nightmare with inaccurate purchasing, order fulfillment and returns processes. Hence the undeniable need for robust warehouse management technologies that are future-focused and effortlessly scalable. Sophisticated Automation.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The retailer also is currently seeking third-party solution providers in areas including payment processors, order management and shipping and fulfillment. I think people want connection and personalization and something real, but enabled through technology. We’re not reverting back to no technology.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Does your order fulfillment strategy live up to your customers’ expectations? Continue to engage with them until they receive their orders. Don’t Shy Away From Investing in New Technology. If you’re falling behind on order fulfillment because of the current processes that are in place, then change them!

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Ecommerce Platforms

JUNE 10, 2019

With the saturation of e-commerce retailers, shipping speed and cost are often major factors for customers when making a purchasing decision. 38% of customers say that they’ll never buy from the same retailer following a negative delivery experience. ShipBob is one of the top order fulfillment services that provides two main services.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The retailer’s recent ecommerce growth has been hampered by its manual fraud review process, which was time-consuming and resulted in too many mistaken rejections of legitimate orders. As a result, 94% of previously declined orders were subsequently approved, and approval rates jumped to 99%.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Kroger will roll out BrightDrop ’s temperature-controlled Trace Grocery e-carts to its stores later in 2022 to help streamline the handling of curbside grocery orders. The retailer recently completed a pilot of the technology at its stores in Lexington and Versailles, Ky.,

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2021

It’s no secret that technology has radically changed buying behaviors for nearly every consumer out there, making the migration to ecommerce critical for retailers that want to remain relevant and competitive in today’s economy. A (Tidy) Path to Success. Do you know what you need to do next (and after that)?

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2022

For retailers, this creates ample opportunity to engage their customers using untapped touch points. Fulfilment, shipping, delivery and returns updates can all be enriched with personalized promotions, loyalty program information and other immersive, branded content. It All Comes Down to Data. Express Your Brand.

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BigCommerce

JUNE 8, 2017

While product-market fit and user acquisition are undoubtedly crucial to your business, ecommerce fulfillment is the engine that keeps your car running. What is order fulfillment? Fulfillment encompasses the entire process of receiving an order and delivering it to a customer. Defining Order Fulfillment Terms.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Misfits Market has introduced Fulfilled by Misfits (FBM) , offering its logistics platform for perishable brands to store, pick, pack, fulfill and deliver their products nationwide. FBM already is working with consumer brands including Spot & Tango , Cometeer and Little Spoon. “At

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The retailer is aiming to operate more than 15 sortation centers across the country to enable flexible and efficient last mile options that build on its store-as-hub strategy. And because our sortation center technology presorts and arranges packages for easy pickup, it reduces processing time for our delivery partners.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 23, 2021

The retail business is dwindling world over. Even before the pandemic, retailers were dealing with strong competition and declining profit margins. Now over a year into lockdown, retailers are striving to learn from past mistakes in a rapidly changing market. Retail is a massive industry. Why do Retailers Need Automation?

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2022

eBay will pay $295 million to acquire TCGplayer , an online collectibles technology platform and marketplace for trading card games. The company’s technology is known for connecting hobby stores and online sellers with customers and collectors on a global scale. The deal is expected to be completed by Q1 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2023

Returns are, like it or not, as much a part of retail operations as the sales themselves. The exact return rate varies among different verticals and individual retailers, but online sales consistently generate higher levels of returns compared to brick-and-mortar. That means you’re out of business.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 17, 2023

This moderating trend in inflation is an encouraging development, but it is not without its caveats, particularly within the dynamic and complex terrain of the retail and consumer goods industries. The path to surviving and thriving in this evolving landscape is paved with the need for robust, integrated and flexible technology systems.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2023

For years, fashion retailers have faced mounting pressures from both customers and employees to evolve. More recently, there’s been a strong urgency expressed for automation and robotics by fashion retailers for better throughput of parcels from warehouses to parcel carriers. What does this mean for retail? trillion.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2021

If you’re a wholesale retailer or brand owner and you haven’t already launched a direct-to-consumer sales channel, you’d better be thinking about it. It’s one thing to attend trade shows and compete for buyers’ attention to get retail shelf space; it’s another to convince 230 million online shoppers in the U.S. to visit your website.

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Retail Technology Review

JULY 5, 2021

Smart warehouse solutions provider, Breathe Technologies, has launched an order fulfilment software to help e-tailers meet both stringent online marketplace requirements and their own direct customer demand.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 16, 2020

Retail businesses, warehouses and distribution centers around the world are facing new challenges as the business environment has shifted in the wake of recent global events. Now, with consumers demanding direct-to-consumer, in-store and curbside pickup, businesses must perfect omnichannel fulfillment to survive.

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iVend

JANUARY 20, 2021

2020 was a difficult year for the world and offline retail in particular was hit hard. However, innovation didn’t stop evolving, online retail boomed more quickly than ever before and delivery infrastructure became super sophisticated. Here are our predictions on the tech trends that will shape retail in 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Spanish fashion retailer Encuentro Moda is deploying a radio frequency identification solution across its 125 stores, both to meet omnichannel requirements and to gain visibility into the stock availability at each store and throughout the supply chain. Adding Real-Time Inventory Data. The rollout was completed in October 2020.

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RTP blog

JULY 17, 2017

By Peter Zaballos, SPS Commerce The Digital Consumer Age Of Retail The retail industry has entered a new era – the Digital Consumer Age of Retail. Consumers’ proficient use of digital channels has revolutionized the retail industry and technology has changed the way people shop today.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Walmart will test combining store/fulfillment center locations at four existing stores, using them as test beds for new technology, digital tools and physical enhancements. The stores will focus on implementing new tools that can help speed up both customer service and order fulfillment. in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2021

Today’s online shoppers have already formed certain intuitive expectations when it comes to services offered by these ecommerce platforms, such as transparent pricing and product information, on-time order fulfillment, timely email/SMS notifications and of course, a quick and easy payment process.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2023

By my recollection, the world of flexible fulfillment hit an inflection point about 15 years ago. It was at that point that putting the technology and operations in place to fulfill from an increasingly complex supply chain network embarked upon its next frontier. Let’s start with demand forecasting and inventory deployment.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 29, 2023

With the growing popularity of the ‘athleisure’ trend, brought on by a renewed focus on both comfort and style, sneakers and sportswear look set to dominate retail for years to come. Benjamin Scherpenbergs is Director of Business Management at PFS , leading the EU and UK Client Services department at the ecommerce order fulfillment provider.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Nearly 75% of consumers say the way they shop in stores has changed significantly over the past three years, according to Retail Systems Research (RSR). As an omnichannel retailer, “everything we do has to be even more omni,” explained Scott Devlin, CIO of The Vitamin Shoppe in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Retailers selling online have benefited from the ecommerce surge engendered by COVID-19, but as with anything else in this industry, they can’t afford to rest on their laurels — particularly as reopened physical stores up their game. It’s true that double-digit growth in U.S. will surpass $1 trillion in 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The in-store grocery shopping experience has held on to its appeal, even as supermarket retailers have realized that they also need to offer customers simple, yet personalized, digital commerce options. Nearly as many ( 72% ) use store visits for stock-up trips, making them even more valuable to a retailer.

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