Remove tag integrated consumer goods and logistics
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Removing ‘Sticker Shock’ From Cross-Border Shipping?

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Making cross-border business transactions can be an expensive ordeal for both merchants and consumers. For many consumers, seeing additional charges tacked onto their bill can often be a good enough reason to walk away from their purchase altogether. Taking Surprises Out of International Shipping.

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The Amazon Effect Pushes Warehouses To The IoT Tipping Point

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Amazon gets a lot of credit, and rightly so, for changing the way the average consumer expects to shop. But what effect has the Amazon wave — and the scores of futuristic fulfillment centers that power its logistics — had on the back end of every other retailers’ supply chain management ?

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Kroger’s Traditional Preferences

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Also emergent have been the rising speciality groceries drawn forward by Whole Foods and the realization that consumers are willing to pay a lot more for bacon if they are reasonably certain the pig has a happy life first. It’s one of the keys to their success: they’ve been good investors in their own business.”