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Competing with Amazon - and Other Views on the Future of E-commerce

When it comes to e-commerce, competing with Amazon is the name of the game, says Ian Hobkirk, managing director of Commonwealth Supply Chain Advisors. Here, he shares his views on the degree of the difficulty of taking on the e-tailing giant and on the future of online commerce in general.

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Retailers: What's Your Strategy for a Digital Transformation of Your Business?

Pinterest boards, QR code walls, showrooming, mobile couponing, pop-up shops, mobile apps, Tweet Mirror, Facebook walls, digital circulars, augmented reality, flash sales"”it's a digital jungle out there for retailers today. As consumers embrace new technologies and services, companies find it difficult to stay current"”and harder still to determine where and how to invest their budgets. It's all too tempting simply to jump on the next new thing (and the next and the next), just in hopes of keeping pace.

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Streamlining Outsourcing of Packaging Function

To state the obvious, contract packaging is rapidly evolving. The core outsourced-packaging function is easily understood, but the form and function of the contract packaging organization is a moving target. Decades ago, a co-packer was defined by the machines the company had on the floor.

Back-to-School Shopping Begins, But Sales Volume Slightly Down from Last Year So Far

The back-to-school shopping season has already gotten underway with 29 percent of households reporting that they have begun to shop, according to a special ICSC-Goldman Sachs consumer tracking survey. While the percentage of consumers shopping for back-to-school items at this time of the season is lower than in 2012 (33 percent), it is still higher than in all other years since 2004. Although the season has officially begun, two-thirds of households reported that August is when they will do most of their back-to-school shopping.

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Hostess Is Back! Orders Outstrip Production Runs

Less than three days after its iconic snack cakes officially returned to shelves, Hostess Brands LLC is experiencing record demand for products, with sales already seven times greater than historic levels and orders three to six times greater than production capacity - which has already been running at maximum levels.

XPO Logistics Takes Over Last-Mile Specialist 3PD

XPO Logistics Inc. has agreed to acquire all of the common stock of 3PD Inc., reportedly North America's largest non-asset, third-party provider of heavy goods, last-mile logistics, in a transaction valued at approximately $365m.

Planograms Among Reasons Why In-Store Merchandising Process 'Broken and Outdated'

Retailers' in-store merchandising process is broken and outdated for a majority of today's national and regional retail chains, according to a study by RIS News sponsored by RBM Technologies.

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UK Retailers Note Supply Chain Vulnerable to Fraudulent 'Goods Lost in Transit' Claims

UK retailers lost more than Â£400m ($603m) last year as a result of fraudulent "goods lost in transit" (GLIT), with the average cost estimated at over Â£40, or about $60. Now, 90 percent of retailers believe growing numbers of fake GLIT claims pose a serious threat. This is an ongoing problem and highlights a new form of theft: "digital shoplifting".

Virtual Orchestration Highways for Enterprise Communities

In the world of enterprise management software, logistics and transportation has often been seen as a very isolated island. Those of us on the inside know that the logistics world continues to be just as fragmented and disconnected as it was 20 or 30 years ago. Logistics providers operate blindly within the supply chain, and have little idea of what is happening upstream or downstream. It's a fundamental problem that is especially ripe for disruption. Get ready, because major change is on the horizon.

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Getting the Most from Your Online Customer Surveys? Do You Even Have Such Surveys?

If ever there was a case for conducting online customer surveys, Adam Lasky, global social media coordinator at Spreadshirt, has lived it.

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Telemarketers Increasingly Turn Deaf Ear to Do-Not-Call List

Regardless of having registered a phone line with the Federal Trade Commission as a telemarketer-free zone, a growing number of consumers are saying that some businesses are ignoring their stated preference and calling anyway.

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