Category: Retail

Retail leaders worldwide, like Best Buy, Petco, Neiman Marcus, Sainsbury’s, Instacart, and Zalando, are accelerating innovation and digital transformation by leveraging cloud retail solutions, software, and tools to harness insights from data at scale. From unparalleled personalized recommendations to AI-driven supply chain planning and inventory optimization, AWS helps brands drive faster market differentiation and growth. […]

High-end customers want a personalized experience when they shop. Why? Because of all the benefits digital technology delivered when the COVID-19 pandemic began. Staying safe was paramount but buying from the comforts of home, finding a wider array of options than in stores, and experiencing fast shipping contributed to online shopping mania. With customers stuck […]

The importance of asset tracking Every day, Amazon.com receives millions of shipments from suppliers. A purchase order from Amazon to a supplier typically includes a large quantity of shipping containers, or assets, that will be delivered to various Amazon warehouses at different times. To determine if items are lost or misplaced in the large, complicated […]

Trends don’t just point us in generalized directions; they shape industries, change landscapes and most importantly, they inform businesses. To be brief, trends matter. Working in digital commerce, this is something an AWS Retail Competency Partner VTEX understands firsthand. At this year’s Industry Innovators virtual event, we welcomed VTEX’s Analyst in Residence Jordan Jewell to share […]

You already have basic footfall data that shows the number of people in your store at any given hour, and you know your sales data per hour, so you can produce a rough “conversion” rate for your customers. But what if you could get more granular data about your customers’ behavior? What if you could […]

The challenge and value of online discovery The power of cloud elasticity helps online retailers expose large volumes of digital content catalogs for shoppers to browse and purchase products. However, it’s a challenge for many retailers to manage their vast online catalogs. And at the same time, with so much content, customers can become overwhelmed […]

With their demands constantly changing, shoppers want the best and they want it now. For companies to keep up, digital product development must be a pressing response. That’s where Cencosud comes in. As a part of our “Engaging Shoppers & Consumers” track at this year’s Industry Innovators virtual event, we had the pleasure of welcoming […]

Grocery retailers typically operate high-volume, low-margin business models. All the retailer’s resources need to be deployed in a way to maximize productivity and minimize cost. This isn’t a simple ask because the majority of applications in the industry have grown organically over a long period of time. In the UK, the top five grocers—with the […]

As a part of our “Engaging Shoppers & Consumers” track at this year’s Industry Innovators virtual event, we had the pleasure of welcoming Hallmark’s Chief Technology Officer Chai Pallapothula to discuss how the company is engaging shoppers and consumers with the help of digital transformation. In this post, we cover highlights from Pallapothula’s “How Hallmark […]

Ecommerce is on track to make up nearly 25 percent of global total retail sales by 2025, with US ecommerce sales alone expected to top $1 trillion for the first time. However, new opportunities have brought new competition and motivated merchants to differentiate their shopping experiences to better inspire purchases. Taking a cue from Asia, […]