Tag Archives: distribution

Choosing Your Best Digital Channel

As we have noted before, digitizing the retail supply chain is essential. Today, look at choosing your best digital channel. After all, there are various options from which to select.   Choosing Your Best Digital Channel According to Rob FitzGerald, writing … Continue reading

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Can Tesla Sell Direct and Bypass Dealers?

As we approach the end of 2016, we are going to present some of the most popular of the more than 1,500 posts that have appeared on Retailing A to Z. Today, we cover Tesla’s unique and controversial dealership program … Continue reading

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Amazon: The Best in Efficient Shipping

We have noted several times before that Amazon is quite an innovative company. And it is especially adept at developing and using new technology to facilitate its distribution network.  As Matt McFarland recently reported for CNN Money:  “By the time … Continue reading

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