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ICYMI: this week national negotiations kicked off between UPS and the Teamsters, with huge ramifications for logistics and labor in general, and union bluster running high. Also, Bonobos is being sold by Walmart for a fraction of its purchase price.
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| MACH Alliance Touts Flexibility of Tech Stack Model |
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| With more legacy software giants embracing cloud-based, composable commerce offerings, such as recent moves by SAP and Adobe, members of the MACH Alliance (microservices-based, API, cloud, headless) are seeking to differentiate themselves while also seeing it as validation of their model. The group says usage is growing faster in the U.S. than Europe, home to many early adopters. |
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| Wish Does Reverse Stock Split to Avoid Delisting |
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| Wish, a once-popular online marketplace for a vast array of often bizarre, inexpensive goods that at one juncture proved to be phantom listings, has conducted a 1-for-30 reverse stock split, a move typically associated with distressed companies in danger of being delisted from an exchange. A 2022 expose found the company listed and sold items it knew didn't exist. |
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| WineDirect Uses Waveless Tech to Drive Scale |
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Learn how the WineDirect operations team was able to leverage technology to enable the correct order flow and fulfillment across channels, while providing critical scale to meet heightened demand.
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| David’s Bridal Again Files Chapter 11 |
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| For the second time in four-plus years, David’s Bridal has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy court protection, while planning to lay off more than 9,000 employees at stores and distribution centers nationwide and seeking a buyer for the distressed business. Stores will remain open, online and marketplace sales will continue, and loyalty points, gift cards, returns and exchanges will all be honored. |
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| Avoiding the Ecommerce Replatforming Treadmill |
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| In a post-SaaS world, the only shot you have at a truly future-proofed ecommerce replatforming project is constantly maintaining the ability to test and deploy new storefront capabilities quickly and easily. This means a fundamental perspective shift is needed, emphasizing superior adaptability over that elusive, false feeling of completeness. Thus, the new digital transformation is digital optimization. |
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| Inventory Management Complexities Are Here to Stay |
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Check out Multichannel Merchant’s latest special report, Inventory Management Gets Trickier As Forces Collide, to stay ahead of inventory management challenges. Read now to hear what analysts are observing and what companies like Burton and Firstleaf are doing to help mitigate inventory management struggles.
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