Warehouse Management

Peak season creep is real: the National Retail Foundation found that in 2016, 55.7 percent of consumers who celebrate the holidays began shopping by early November, the second highest percentage on record. As seasonal shopping shifts earlier, warehouse peak season preparation also moves up, giving new meaning to the term “Christmas in July.” While software…

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said last week it's rolling out shelf-scanning robots in more than 50 U.S. stores next year, to replenish inventory faster and save employees’ time when products run out. While Wal-Mart has been testing shelf-scanning robots in stores in Arkansas, Pennsylvania and California for the past three years, by the end of January,…

Amazon.com is hosting a job fair today in an attempt to fill 50,000 warehouse positions by hiring people on the spot in some of the U.S. cities that host its largest operation hubs. The retailer announced last weekend that it would host job fairs in places like Baltimore and Buffalo, New York for full-time and part-time jobs…

Attendees of this interactive webinar will learn why retailers struggle under the weight of increasing amounts of data.

As multichannel retailers engage and sell products to customers across increasingly more channels — and collect data in each of those channels — their businesses become that much more complex. Siloed, disparate data sets exist throughout an organization, from inventory to POS to order management and more, leading to a fractured, incomplete view of customers […]

In episode 90 of Total Retail Talks, MC Halfpenny, director of operations at Uncommon Goods, an online retailer of unique gifts and creative home decor, talks about how proactive customer support is helping the company to improve the order delivery process. Halfpenny shares details about the support process at Uncommon Goods, the business benefits it…

While the rest of the world is transitioning into the final months of the year, the retail industry has been preparing for the holiday season since before the first signs of summer. Though the time to purchase gifts, decorations and party supplies may still be a few weeks off, retailers are well into the final…

The first thing online clothing reseller ThredUp did after clinching a new round of funding last year? Hunt for strategic warehouse space to get the goods to its customers as fast as possible. Amazon.com has spoiled them for anything less. Within six months, ThredUp's chief executive officer, James Reinhart, had signed leases on two additional warehouses.

Best Buy said yesterday it would open a technology development center in Seattle, taking the top floor of the Seattle Times Building. Set to begin operations in late spring, the office will employ more than 50 engineers, product managers, web architects and developers in the next year and is expected to expand to more than 100 e-commerce professionals over time. Best Buy looked at several cities before settling on Seattle because of its technology base, talent, cloud engineering and e-commerce strengths. 

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that warehouse workers who fill orders for retail giant Amazon.com don't have to be paid for time spent waiting to pass through security checks at the end of their shifts. The unanimous decision is a victory for the growing number of retailers and other companies that routinely screen workers to prevent employee theft. The justices said federal law doesn't require companies to pay employees for the extra time because it's unrelated to their primary job duties.