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Ecommerce Fulfillment Keeps Pace with Demand

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KURU Footwear, a D2C shoe company, needed to accommodate a 2X increase in online order volume without missing a step on customer service.  See how a scalable fulfillment solution helped maximize storage density, process orders faster and improve returns. Read the case study.

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