​Digital commerce without limits: reengineering that boosted online sales

How we redesigned the content publishing architecture to accelerate commercial campaigns and support demand peaks without crashes.

Client​


Cencosud, a retail giant founded in 1960, with operations in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and the United States. Its portfolio includes supermarkets, home improvement stores, department stores, shopping centers, and financial services.

The Challenge


The digital operation faced critical barriers to compete in an increasingly dynamic market:


  • Any change in the e-commerce content or appearance could take days or even weeks, demanding dozens of hours from development teams.
  • The e-commerce platforms could not withstand periods of high demand (cyber events, special promotions), leading to service interruptions and multi-million dollar losses in digital sales.

The challenge was to create an agile, scalable, and reliable system that would allow managing content for multiple sites in different countries while guaranteeing operational continuity during high-demand events.

The solution: integrated CMS with Vtex and salesforce


A mixed team from Acid Labs (3 specialists) and Cencosud (1 internal resource) designed and implemented a regional CMS to administer content on landing and home pages:


✅ Direct integration with Vtex and Salesforce Commerce.


Centralized management of content for all the company's e-commerce sites.


Simplified deployment process, reducing time and dependence on technical teams.





Business impacting results


More effective sales: Today, it supports up to 16,000 without interruptions. Each hour of downtime during a cyber event was equivalent to losing 15% of the total event sales.


Total Agility: changes that previously required a full development sprint are now executed in seconds, without needing to involve the DevOps team.


Tangible Savings: each modification, which used to cost up to USD 10,000 in time and resources, is now managed with a couple of clicks.

Our Approach

Scalability and agility serving retail

At Acid Labs, we don't just build technology; we design solutions that enable sustained growth and digital resilience in high-demand scenarios


Because we do it #RadicalmenteMejor

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