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Pour Vous is a retail warehouse store specializing in wine, spirits, beer, cigars and party supplies. Given the weight of some products and the glass containers often being handled by their staff, they knew they needed a different solution and began looking for alternatives. In 2013, Big Lift LLC introduced a new vehicle to address a wide variety of tasks where a stock ladder may commonly be used called the Big Joe J1 Joey... read more here.
]]>Lewis Paper needed equipment that featured powered travel, the ability to elevate and good capacity. They also needed it be extremely safe and intuitive for easy operation. Since this wasn’t the case, the Lewis Paper team went shopping to find a better piece of equipment. There they found the Big Joe Joey and immediately knew they had found what they were seeking. Read the Case Study here.
]]>As a result of these new fulfillment trends, a central challenge in today’s market is the need for rapid replenishment of smaller quantities of goods driven not only by picking for e-commerce, but also by deeper changes in retailing and consumer goods supply chains.
Over the past decade, retailing has undergone massive change. The explosion in e-commerce—still expanding in the U.S. market by nearly 10 percent annually—when combined with the adoption of omnichannel fulfillment strategies has fundamentally changed the distribution landscape.
The days of a DC shipping out full pallets of goods to larger retail stores, where the goods would sit and wait for consumers to do the bulk of their shopping is no longer the only model. Internet retailers led by Amazon have grabbed much of the consumer dollar, while retail giants such as Wal-Mart have countered by allowing consumers who buy online to do pick-up at the store.
Read more about Simplifying fulfillment’s ‘last move’ with ‘rack-to-shelf’ equipment options in our whitepaper here.