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Volume 3 - Issue 41
10/27/2009
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Would You like Chips and Dip with Your New Flat Screen TV?
By Paula Rosenblum, Managing Partner
When Amazon.com announced it will be offering same day delivery (“Local Express Delivery”) in seven major US cities I was asked the same question by several reporters. The question was a variant of, “What are the implications of this announcement?” At the time, I thought the implications were greatest for other online retailers, who obviously don’t have the mass to offer the same type of service. And I also believed the story behind the story was actually bulking up home deliveries to support Amazon’s fledgling grocery business, Amazon Fresh.
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Let’s Get Visible
By Brian Kilcourse, Managing Partner
Retailers and their partners today participate in a global supply chain to deliver relevant products to value-conscious consumers. But despite the physical length and complexity of global supply chains, the speed of the design-to-consumption cycle has increased remarkably as retailers seek to enable a more agile response to demand, and still reduce the amount of paid-for inventory in the pipeline. Because of the multi-national interdependency that exists between manufacturers, logistics providers, aggregators, and retailers, participating companies today are under great pressure to eliminate disruptions that can affect the total supply chain.
At the same time, retailers’ inventory assortments have... Read more
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Where the Dollars Are: How Retailers Are Investing in Online Technologies
By Steve Rowen, Managing Partner
In all of the research we conduct at RSR, we ask our survey respondents to provide us their view of individual technologies from both a value perspective, as well as from a current/intended use perspective. Our recent study on eCommerce, Online Commerce in 2009: The Game Has Changed – Have Retailers?, was no exception.
Interestingly, a few days ago, USA today featured an article that asks... Read more
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