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1 million parcels through Lehtipiste’s parcel lockers in Finland
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Over one million parcels have been delivered through the nationwide Pakettipiste network of Lehtipiste Oy, a Finnish distribution and marketing company for newspapers and magazines. The parcel locker network currently has around 300 active locations across Finland. Lehtipiste distributes tabloids, magazines, books and collectibles to points of sales. In October… Continue reading
Topics: parcel, network, pakettipiste, million, finland, uses, locations, company, lockers, data, lehtipistes, parcels. -
20 Best Remote Working Locations Around the World for Digital Nomads
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Want to work from anywhere in the world? Check out these 20 remote working locations around the world that are perfect for the digital nomad lifestyle!
Topics: digital, working, average, coworking, city, cost, cheap, night, month, locations, best, remote, food, world, plenty, nomads, temperatures. -
Amazon Versus Walmart Is a Blueprint for Competitive Advantage
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The battle between these giants of e-commerce should inspire all entrepreneurs.
Topics: versus, competitive, online, ecommerce, service, delivery, advantage, range, amazon, blueprint, walmart, locations, walmarts, reasons. -
Amazon confirms NYC and Arlington, VA as the site of its new dual HQ
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After months of deliberations, data dumps, short lists and wish-lists, Amazon has finally announced the location of its second headquarters, HQ2, and as it has been widely reported, “2” is the important detail here: Amazon has named not one, but two different cities, New York (specifically, Long Island City in Queens) and Arlington, Virginia, as the […]
Topics: jobs, locations, arlington, amazon, company, site, hq, confirms, headquarters, washington, dual, city, location, nyc, york, va, huge. -
Amazon expands its in-store pickup service, Counter, to thousands more stores
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Amazon Counter, the online retailer’s in-store pickup option that launched this summer at 100+ Rite Aid locations in the U.S., is now expanding. The company announced today the service will reach thousands more locations with the additions of new partners GNC, Health Mart and Stage Stores. GNC is the well-known health and nutrition chain. Health […]
Topics: locations, partners, instore, online, expands, techcrunch, stage, mart, pickup, network, counter, service, amazon, thousands, stores. -
Amazon launches Counter in-store pick-up in the US, starting with 100 Rite Aid locations
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Amazon’s strategy to bring more brick-and-mortar options into its vast e-commerce empire, and its ambition to sell more pharmaceutical products, today may have found themselves a little more knitted together. The company announced a new service in the US called Counter, a free in-store pick-up service where Amazon shoppers can arrange to collect packages. And […]
Topics: locations, customers, partnership, instore, aid, stores, retail, techcrunch, counter, amazon, starting, pickup, way, deal, rite, launches. -
Amazon opens 8 new logistics locations in Germany
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Amazon wants to expand further in Germany and plans to erect eight new logistics buildings by the first half of 2022. This will create 3.000 additional permanent jobs with Amazon Germany. The expansion is necessary to meet customer demand and expand the range of products. The new logistics locations are… Continue reading
Topics: logistics, euros, locations, germany, amazon, employees, permanent, wants, opens, jobs, months. -
Amazon to close 68 physical retail locations, including Amazon Books and 4-star stores
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Amazon’s physical retail business is suffering a major blow as the company today confirmed to Reuters it will close 68 brick-and-mortar retail stores across the U.S. and U.K. This includes its Amazon Books bookstores, its pop-up shops in various markets and its 4-star stores, where customers could shop popular and highly rated products across Amazon.com. […]
Topics: techcrunch, books, amazon, locations, brickandmortar, close, physical, stores, company, workers, retail, business, including, online. -
Amazon to open its first non-Whole Foods grocery store in 2020
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Amazon is opening its first non-Whole Foods grocery store in the LA neighborhood of Woodland Hills, the retailer today confirmed. The news of the new store was first reported by CNET, which spotted several job postings referencing the location, including those for a zone leader, grocery associates and a food service associate. Unlike Amazon’s growing […]
Topics: nonwhole, techcrunch, reported, hills, amazon, store, food, woodland, foods, open, grocery, stores, locations. -
Apple temporarily re-closes 14 more Florida stores as COVID-19 numbers surge
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After closing stores across four states, this was no doubt a bit of an inevitable: Following reporting earlier today, Apple has confirmed that it will be shutting down an additional 14 stores in Florida, joining the two it closed last week. The company sent a statement to TechCrunch that is essentially identical to the one […]
Topics: florida, week, locations, closed, apple, stores, surge, techcrunch, following, temporarily, covid19, soon, north, numbers, states, recloses. -
Brick and mortar is back: The retail apocalypse is ‘nearing its end’
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The retail apocalypse is nearing its end, giving brick-and-mortar the opportunity to make the comeback of a lifetime, says CitiXsys VP Paula Da Silva.
Topics: nearing, mortar, brick, retail, experience, personalised, locations, apocalypse, gen, end, data, shopping, z, millennials, customer. -
Domino’s will now deliver to 150,000 parks, pools and other non-traditional locations
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Domino’s will now deliver your pizza to the beach — well, sort of! Or the park, the sports field, that one gas station down the road or some notable landmark in your city where it will be easy for your delivery driver to find you, among other places. The company announced today the launch of […]
Topics: order, hotspots, locations, pizza, dominos, driver, delivery, nontraditional, parks, park, beach, deliver, pools, including. -
Flush with new capital, Foxtrot’s ‘convenience store of the future’ is coming to a location near you
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Foxtrot is reimagining the convenience store experience by seeking out the best food items by local artisans along with its core offerings of coffee, ready-to-eat cafe meals and wine.
Topics: foxtrots, stores, convenience, company, coming, store, retail, way, future, foxtrot, flush, location, capital, techcrunch, locations, near, lavitola. -
Fraîche grabs new capital to whip up fresh-delivered meals for New York offices
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The company includes a smart fridge that is stocked with meals and snacks daily, and a mobile app so that office employees can check out the contents whenever they want.
Topics: grabs, office, locations, techcrunch, whip, fraîche, lizarazu, freshdelivered, company, capital, meals, food, employees, companies, offices, ready, york. -
How 9 Brands With Physical Locations Made Their Services Virtual
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In 2020, the era of digital transformation is in full swing.
At this point, video, blogging, and content marketing top the list of tactics brands are investing more heavily in. Meanwhile, 97% learn about businesses online more than anywhere else.
Topics: locations, virtual, online, hair, fitness, physical, customers, paint, video, planet, services, brands. -
Is the Disney Store in crisis? The reality behind the closure of more than 60 physical stores
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The company is fulfilling its plan to close nearly 75% of the Disney Stores in the United States, which could indicate a crisis, but the reality goes further.
Topics: store, target, physical, ecommerce, close, stores, locations, disney, closure, reality, shopping, united, crisis. -
John Lewis adds 400 click and collect points
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Department store chain John Lewis will almost double its number of click and collect points across the United Kingdom. The extension is the result of a partnership with the Co-op. For John Lewis, this is another effort to support growth in ecommerce. John Lewis will add the 400 new locations… Continue reading
Topics: lewis, online, locations, points, collect, john, customers, click, adds, shopping, store. -
Microsoft is closing all of its retail stores for good
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As other retailers begin the slow, cautious move to reopen, Microsoft has announced that it will be permanently shutting down the vast majority of its retail stores. There are some exceptions, including flagships in urban hubs including London, New York City, Sydney and its own campus in Redmond, Washington, but the remainder of the locations […]
Topics: online, closing, microsoft, team, including, digital, retail, sales, locations, good, stores, company, techcrunch. -
Otto partners with AI-startup Covariant
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The Otto Group is partnering with Covariant, a company specializing in AI-driven warehouse robots. With the partnership, Otto wants to automate its fulfilment activities and increase its operational efficiency. Otto’s German fulfilment locations will be robotized first. The German Otto Group owns leading ecommerce brands such as About You and…
Topics: covariant, aistartup, german, partners, raised, warehouse, locations, company, robots, fulfilment, wants, otto, million. -
PayPal makes its ‘Happy Returns’ service free with PayPal Checkout, expands to 5,000+ locations
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PayPal is expanding access to the returns service it acquired last year, Happy Returns, by making it available to PayPal Checkout merchants at no extra cost. The payments company said on Monday that merchants would now be able to use the Happy Returns return and exchange portal software free of charge, and it has additionally […]
Topics: checkout, return, locations, service, techcrunch, merchants, customers, makes, paypal, ulta, happy, expands, returns, free, retail. -
Pomelo plans 100-strong partner store expansion in Thailand, Singapore
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Fashion-tech brand Pomelo plans to launch 100 additional Pomelo Partner stores by December on the back of a US$52 million Series C fundraising.
Topics: retail, expansion, stores, customers, plans, partner, try, 100strong, singapore, locations, thailand, pomelo, store. -
Product Inventory Information Shopify App Review
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Product inventory information might not be exactly what comes to mind when you try to think about important features missing on Shopify. But, here’s the thing- it gets worse. For quite some time, I also believed that Shopify had everything…
Continue reading Product Inventory Information Shopify App Review
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Seattle gets its first staffed Amazon pickup delivery hub
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You’d think Seattle would be first in line for all things Amazon, but apparently the online retailer’s home city didn’t yet have a dedicated brick and mortar Amazon pickup location. The locations function as little centralized Amazon shipping hubs for normal pickups and returns, but they also enable one-day pickup for a large selection of […]
Topics: members, locations, staffed, items, pickup, delivery, shipping, gets, city, convenience, hub, amazon, seattle, location. -
Sneaker marketplace GOAT announces an AR-centric Black Friday giveaway
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Black Friday giveaways have become a tradition for online sneaker marketplace GOAT. Today it’s announcing the details of this year’s campaign, which will be its first to incorporate augmented reality. Director of Communications Liz Goodno described this as “the largest digital sneaker event of the year.” The company says it will be offering more than […]
Topics: giveaway, goat, event, locations, black, tickets, club, marketplace, technology, sneaker, announces, flight, ar, arcentric. -
Streamline Your Day with Fraud Protect, Locations, and Shopify Ping
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Your time is valuable, and it’s in especially short supply when you’re trying to build a business.
There are always going to be more items on your to-do list than hours in the day, which is why we’re continually looking for ways to help you streamline your work. The more time you save on routine to-dos and processes, the more time you have available to focus on growing and scaling your business.
Today at Unite, we announced four new ways to help you free up your day with simplified order processing, inventory management, order fulfillment, and Shopify Ping, your new mobile workspace. More
Topics: manage, streamline, pickups, ping, locations, order, protect, inventory, fraud, youre, free, day, orders, shopify. -
Swiss ecommerce faces shortage warehouse locations
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Online retailers in Switzerland are facing a shortage of suitable logistics locations within the country. They are outsourcing warehousing or seeking solutions across the border, according to the Swiss Handelszeitung. Over the past decades, ecommerce in Switzerland has experienced significant growth in both the private and business sectors. This has…
Topics: estate, logistics, swiss, shortage, warehouse, faces, suitable, ecommerce, customers, switzerland, warehouses, warehousing, real, locations, companies. -
Target’s Drive Up pickup service expands nationwide
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Target’s same-day curbside pickup service, Drive Up, has now reached all 50 U.S. states, the retailer announced on Thursday. The service allows consumers to shop online then pull up to designated spaces at their local store to have their purchases ferried to their vehicle by Target staff. Drive Up has rolled out to Target stores […]
Topics: pickup, curbside, techcrunch, drive, target, sameday, expands, stores, locations, nationwide, service, orders, targets, order. -
Tesla u-turns on store strategy, will keep half of showrooms open… and hike prices by 3%
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It wouldn’t be Tesla if it didn’t keep us guessing a little… electric car company Tesla is making a u-turn of sorts with its sales strategy. After its announcement at the end of February that it would close nearly all of its retail stores, which numbered 398 as of Q4, to sell its cars online-only […]
Topics: showrooms, stores, tesla, prices, open, locations, uturns, hike, company, stay, past, half, vehicles, store, strategy. -
Thailand’s Pomelo to launch in Malaysia
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Thai online fashion marketplace Pomelo is to launch in Malaysia.
Topics: week, launch, styles, offer, pomelo, malaysian, fashion, site, thailands, thai, malaysia, us19, special, locations. -
The Netherlands: top spot for online retailers to expand logistics
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The Netherlands is the most popular destination for online retailers looking to expand. These ecommerce players see this Western European country as the number one place to expand their logistics operations. They are also increasingly looking for fulfillment centers and warehouses outside the traditional locations. Other countries in Europe where… Continue reading
Topics: netherlands, spot, expand, high, retailers, popular, survey, logistics, locations, looking, online. -
WSJ: Amazon to open new US grocery chain separate from Whole Foods
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A report from The Wall St. Journal today claims Amazon is preparing to open a new chain of grocery stores across the U.S. that won’t be associated with Whole Foods. The retailer is expected to open the first of these stores in L.A., possibly by the end of 2019, and has signed leases for at […]
Topics: open, grocery, amazon, carry, delivery, wsj, chain, foods, stores, separate, pickup, service, locations, report. -
Walmart now accepts SNAP for online grocery orders at all 2,500+ pickup locations
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Walmart has been working to address the needs of low-income shoppers for some time. More recently, it’s been introducing new ways to serve customers on public assistance. In fall 2017, the retailer began a small test allowing customers to pay for online grocery orders using their SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits — more casually […]
Topics: grocery, orders, store, snap, online, locations, pickup, lowincome, customers, retailers, program, accepts, walmart, techcrunch.