Manufacturers Are “Pivoting” Between Ocean and Air Capacity
SEKO Logistics has said many of its manufacturer clients are “pivoting” between seafreight to airfreight and “leveraging air capacity as an option when they can”. Source link
LEGACY Insights: Shippers Start Planning for Christmas Capacity Crunch
According to the Census Bureau’s March retail trade report, the boom in containerized imports has caused the retail inventory-to-sales ratio to plummet to a record low, which means that importers need to start planning for the holiday season now in order to get inventory levels up in time for peak holiday shopping. Source link
Marketers Need New Strategies To Parry Cookieless Advertising | Online Advertising
By Jack M. Germain Jul 29, 2021 5:00 AM PT As if online vendors did not have enough changes to handle in this post-Covid marketing environment, the impending loss of third-party digital cookies will soon force the e-commerce advertising industry to shift its strategies fast. Third-party cookies will soon be a thing of the past. […]
Walmart teams with Adobe to offer e-commerce tech for US SMBs
Walmart teams with Adobe to offer e-commerce tech for US SMBs Stuart Lauchlan Wed, 07/28/2021 – 03:48 Summary: Walmart and Adobe look to boost SMBs e-commerce capabilities. Walmart is teaming up with Adobe to offer small-and-midsize retailers to offer e-commerce and logistics capabilities, another weapon in the ongoing battle with Amazon’s marketplace offerings. The world’s […]
Google Cloud Seeks To Cure Retailers’ Search Woes, Help Compete With Amazon | Search
By John P. Mello Jr. Jul 28, 2021 4:00 AM PT Google on Tuesday announced a new service aimed at beefing up the search capabilities of retailers’ websites that may make those sellers more competitive with Amazon. The service, Google Cloud Retail Search, hopes to address the staggering problem of “search abandonment,” which costs retailers […]
Brewing up a post-COVID customer experience at Starbucks
Brewing up a post-COVID customer experience at Starbucks Stuart Lauchlan Wed, 07/28/2021 – 03:07 Summary: Customers have flocked back to the Starbucks sofas as the Vaccine Economy warms up. For many people an indicator of some kind of return to normality was always going to be the ability to sit down in a coffee shop […]
Biggest Pain of Shipping Freight between 10-28 Linear Feet
Learn to recognize the challenges of midsize freight transportation so you can move your goods with ease. Source link
Commerce Apps and CX: Designing for Engagement | M-Commerce
Mobile apps are convenient and ubiquitous, and they’re becoming a central way that people interact with brands. Just having an app is not enough, however. Because they live on the ecosystem of mobile devices, people expect them to be user-friendly and instantantly accessible. If they’re to attract and keep users, apps must deliver a seamless, […]
Working with data in motion at clothing brand Boden
Working with data in motion at clothing brand Boden Gary Flood Fri, 07/23/2021 – 04:36 Summary: Boden is using Confluent as a way to drive Kafka Apache to support its digital transformation, says the company’s Head of Business and Enterprise Architecture Founded in 1991 by former stockbroker Johnnie Boden, Boden is a British clothing retailer […]
Supercharging Customer Retention | Expert Advice
By Jack M. Germain Jul 26, 2021 5:00 AM PT Lifetime Value or LTV is key to growing your business. Without it, you might as well turn off the lights and go home. LTV is the total amount of money that a merchant receives from a customer’s entire lifetime of association with a seller. Thus, […]
