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The Future of Retail in the New Era of Risk

Retail Prophet

Most companies today, according to Thorbeck, are accounting only for the front-end advantage that low cost might afford them. The result is slow turns, deep markdowns, write-offs, and heaps of dead stock in warehouses, much of which eventually becomes landfill. Risks, he says, that make businesses far less competitive.

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4 Critical Steps for Optimizing Omnichannel Order Fulfillment in 2021

Retalon

This includes everything from storing inventory, processing orders, picking stock, shipping packages, and delivering orders to the end consumer. Firstly, a BOPIS model simply pushes the optimization burden to the individual stores — as consumers tend to check individual store stock before ordering.

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How Predictive Analytics Are Transforming Omni-Channel Retail

Retalon

What is the optimal pricing/markdown strategy to sell off inventory by end of season while a staying away from lost sales, and dead inventory? How do you calculate optimal safety stock levels? How are predictive analytics helping retailers reduce out-of-stocks? How can the refine forecast accuracy?

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How Predictive Analytics Are Transforming Omni-Channel Retail

Retalon

What is the optimal pricing/markdown strategy to sell off inventory by end of season while a staying away from lost sales, and dead inventory? How do you calculate optimal safety stock levels? How are predictive analytics helping retailers reduce out-of-stocks? How can the refine forecast accuracy?

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 257 – Cookies, IDFA, and Commerce Deep Dive

Retail Geek

You like to read The Wall Street Journal every day and you have an account with the Wall Street Journal and you don’t have to type your username in every single time you go to the Wall Street Journal so you check that little boxing remember me. Scot: [51:27] Right so we got some good stock picks from Jason straight away here.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 296 – Guardian Baseball Co-Founder Matt Kubancik

Retail Geek

Started selling fashion and store stock Closeouts Retail Arbitrage early days of eBay and then when I was 18 years old. Matt: [11:33] Applesauce back and everything yeah I’m the Costco dead. Matt: [2:05] No not at all actually spent six months in in college dropped out was one of the original I started selling on eBay 1999.