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Over the next few years, we can expect logistics to become more sustainable. Apart from meeting customer demands for improved sustainability, it makes good business sense: being sustainable can cut costs. Cost reduction and protecting the environment, a win-win if...

Retailers everywhere are racking their brains how to solve the challenges of the last mile: how to deliver all those parcels effectively, affordably and – preferably – as sustainably as possible? Consumers cannot help wondering if there is an easier way, not to...

Not a moment too soon: improvements in Europe The Digital Single Market is focused on furthering the transparency of the European market as a whole, with particular emphasis on parcel deliveries. Time and again, retailers have struggled with the flimsy information...

In the retail value chain, the retailers are the ones juggling their customers’ wishes, not to mention everything from order picking to packaging to transporting the goods that have been ordered. No mean feat. While many countries have lifted the constraints on the...

How can retailers have all those billions of goods delivered the world over? To what lengths do they need to go in order to solve the so-called dilemma of the last mile, working together with all those mail and parcel delivery businesses, both new and familiar? The...

Blockchain payment apps are heralding in yet another big change to retail. What happens in a blockchain is that it constructs, codifies and commits every action, payment or transaction into a ‘block’ of data. When these blocks are joined together, they form a...

When you think about it, in-store card payments are de facto data payments already. A digital solution with personal data being used to complete the transaction. For retailers, the true value is in that very data. After all, the more you know about your customer, the...