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Wilke’s team called these fast-track or fast-lane orders and built a separate process around them. On the floor of the FCs, those items were accelerated through the Crisplant sorters and were the first to be delivered to the packers and the trucks waiting in the yard.
Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Talia Goldberg • Distribution and conversion models for consumer startups
The headline is a one- to two-sentence introduction.
Mike Weinberg • New Sales. Simplified.
PD: Open marriage.
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WWD • Inside Fashionphile’s Interactive 60,000 Square-foot Digs in Chelsea’s Historic Starrett-Lehigh Building
We give new employees a copy of the previous few months of 5 Big Things so they can hit the ground running.
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
Soon after Thanksgiving, predictably, Amazon was failing to keep the most popular toys in stock. Kerry Morris, the buyer who joined Amazon from Walmart, says she organized Amazon employee visits to Costco and Toys “R” Us stores around the country and had them scoop up supplies of Pokémon toys and Mattel’s Walk ’N Wag dog, which were hot that season
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Across categories, there has been a move toward smaller, more decentralized offerings revolving around personalization and hyper-focused inventory.
Ana Andjelic • The Business of Aspiration: How Social, Cultural, and Environmental Capital Changes Brands
fashion items (swapstyle).