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Over the past few months, retail has been impacted in interesting ways. Most notably, a Walmart VP confirmed that with the majority of Americans now telecommuting to work, the retail giant saw increased sales in tops … but not bottoms. Other retailers confirmed: shirt sales are up...

Now that the burst of reactive action to the COVID-19 crisis has settled some, companies are able to begin strategizing how best to move forward. Marketing tactics that worked just fine up until early March are mostly scrapped. Future plans have to walk a narrow...

On March 11, 2020, The World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic. This has had a major impact on the exchange of goods across the globe. Social distancing has disrupted labor-intensive processes—such as important links in the supply chain—that rely on people working in...

Nowadays, when people consider outfitting a new kitchen or remodeling an existing one, they look at all the ways they can upgrade appliances to have the latest and greatest features. This could include anything from a special smart feature to an energy saving design. After...

The core of your business isn’t just any customer, it’s a happy customer. While businesses typically spend more on customer acquisition than retention, selling to an existing customer can be up to seven times cheaper. In fact, the success rate of selling to an existing...

With the pandemic forcing the majority of companies to move to remote work from home setups, employees are finding more positives beyond the ability to work all day from the couch in pajamas. The most exciting perk? They’ve traded two-legged colleagues for four-legged ones. There...

There is no doubt the coronavirus pandemic has drastically changed how most companies do business. Ecommerce spiked as most states in America moved to shelter-in-place orders, while other industries experienced significant setbacks. Many online sellers had already partnered in whole or in part with Amazon...

Third-party logistics—or 3PL—isn’t a new terminology for most. Initially coined in the 1970s, this marked the departure from transportation contracts that only featured the shipper and the carrier. Once intermediaries that could take the shipments from shippers and transfer them to rail carriers came into...

This spring has seen a huge shift in how people buy in response to isolation orders and uncertainty. Consumers are shifting what, when, and how they’re buying, moving to bulk purchases and online shopping. Ecommerce is growing even as the opportunity to purchase in-store is...

New Position Enables Continued Focus on Customers and Partners   Bellevue, NE – March 30, 2020 – ROI, Inc., the developer of IN-SYNCH® and the market leader in Sage 100cloud integration solutions, announced that Kim Zertuche has joined the company as Customer Development Director. “ROI...