Like many other businesses, today’s multichannel retailers are keen to capitalize on the promise of big data. Here are several considerations key to addressing the dual challenges of too much and not enough data, and for capturing the insight needed to thrive in multichannel retail.
Omnichannel commerce puts a premium on reducing the cost of order fulfillment while at the same time speeding up the fulfillment process. With automated storage and retrieval systems, this process reversed, with employees spending more time fulfilling orders.
A joint NRF/NAM study found a West Coast port strike could cost the U.S. economy up to $2.5 billion per day.
Want to learn how to build your global shipping and distribution strategy? You will want to attend a session on this important subject at Multichannel Merchant’s Growing Global conference on July 15 and 16 in Long Beach, Calif.
Sigma was trying to figure out how to appropriately educate consumers about its products while enhancing its brand’s credibility in an industry where visibly similar products can be different in functionality and product differentiation is a challenge.
Retailers and retail experts contacted by Multichannel Merchant were mixed in terms of the impact of the new Amazon Fire phone.
OverstockArt.com re-launched its iPad app version 6.0 earlier this week, which promises a more interactive experience between the brand and customer.
Your customers are not machines. You can target, track and acquire them, but you’re still dealing with conscious, emotional organisms. So how do you honor your customer’s humanity? In a world overloaded with choices, content and reviews, in what practical ways can you guide how customers relate to your brand?
It’s not the big brands that are really moving the ecommerce needle in the space — it’s the smaller ones. Here’s a look at the lessons big behemoths like Amazon can learn from Threadless, TOMS Shoes and HauteLook.
The presentation, which is entitled Get It Delivered For Less: World-Class Strategies for Sourcing Global Parcel Transportation Rates & Contracts, provides advanced procurement strategies for shippers looking to reduce global parcel costs through contract negotiations.