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The News, Commentary & Events that Shaped Commerce This Week
week of 2/28/2020 |
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| The MFC Trend in E-Grocery: Where It Is, Where It's Going |
| Micro fulfillment centers are all the rage in e-grocery – small, highly automated systems that use robotics to fulfill online orders in 1 to 2 minutes. Neil Stern of McMillonDoolittle talks all things MFC in this latest MCM CommerceChat podcast. He'll also lead an MFC session at Ecommerce Operations Summit (4/14-16, Orlando).…» |
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| Kraft Heinz Venture Arm Invests in Fabric to Leverage Tech and Ideas |
| Evolv Ventures, the investment arm of CPG giant Kraft Heinz, has joined a $110 million funding round in automation and robotics firm Fabric with an undisclosed investment, keeping an eye on ways to tap into Fabric’s expertise and capabilities in ecommerce and applying it to the B2B world.…» |
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| Target Breaks Into Top 10 for U.S. Ecommerce Sales |
| Target’s strong focus on ecommerce, including a 2019 holiday push on fast delivery options and BOPIS, has propelled it into the top 10 for U.S. ecommerce sales, according to a new report from eMarketer. Target checks in at No. 8 with projected 2020 U.S. ecommerce sales of $8.34 billion, increasing its share from 1.1% to 1.2%.…» |
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| Shogun Raises $10M to Help Ecommerce Brands Battle Amazon |
| Shogun, a drag-and-drop ecommerce website builder, has raised $10M in Series A funding from Initialized Capital, VMG Partners and Y Combinator to expand its platform and launch a new product helping sellers compete with Amazon and do headless commerce. Major brand clients include Leesa, MVMT and K-Swiss.…» |
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| First Amazon Go Self-Serve Grocery Store Online in Seattle |
| Amazon’s hunger for a bigger bite of the $839B grocery market was evident in the opening of the first checkout-less Amazon Go Grocery store in Seattle. The 10,400-square-foot space, roughly 5x the size of an Amazon Go store, stocks 5,000 items. Tech startups AiFi and Grabango are reportedly working on systems for competitors.…» |
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