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Retail Apocalypse Predicted to Continue

Enterra Insights

Over the past several years, thousands of brick-and-mortar retail stores have closed in what has been called the Retail Apocalypse. “As a result,” Wigglesworth wrote, “many big retailers are shuttering stores across the US.” ” The future of the retail apocalypse. . in the previous four.”[2]

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This Week in Logistics News (December 31 – January 6)

Logistics Viewpoints

While FedEx has worked with many mass retailers on this solution in the past, it now offers hassle-free returns for small to midsize businesses. Retailers have found that consolidating returns can increase efficiency and reduce costs by using fewer supplies and less labor to pack and ship the products. Online pet retailer Chewy Inc.

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Cross border eCommerce: How viable is the model for Indian consumers and retailers

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All You Need to Know About Cross border eCommerce and Indian Customers, and Retailers. The retail landscape has witnessed a paradigm shift over the past couple of decades. In this blog, we will discuss how viable or lucrative the Indian customer base is and how ready Indian retailers are for catering to the evolution.

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Truck Driver Shortage: Getting Better, Worse, or No Problem at All?

Talking Logistics

This past October, the American Trucking Associations warned that the trucking industry could be short 50,000 drivers by the end of 2017. In the report, ATA projects the shortage to reach 50,000 by the end of 2017 and if current trends hold the shortage could grow to more than 174,000 by 2026.

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Top 13 Asian eCommerce Marketplaces

Vinculum

billion in 2017 to $200 billion by 2026. The website focuses majorly on bulk orders that are delivered to retailers looking to stock up. In 2017, the brand had acquired 180 million products from four million entrepreneurs across Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

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Understanding Product Information Management

Vinculum

The PIM market is in the middle of witnessing a significant rise in its business, especially dominated by the software industry and is expected to keep growing till 2026. Based on research, in 2017, the on-grounds model of the PIM tool led the market. The PIM market, geographically, was dominated by North America in 2017.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 28 – June 3)

Logistics Viewpoints

A strong uptake in collaborative robot usage within the medical, education, logistics, and catering fields will likely drive that market to grow to three times its 2021 size by 2026. The Memorial Day weekend typically sees an uptick in cargo theft, with an average from 2017 to 2021 of 29 events per year over the holiday weekend.