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As warehouses get greener, demand for eco-friendly packaging is soaring

Inside Retail

As consumers expect more environmentally sustainable solutions for the packaging of products and deliveries, shippers may be missing equally compelling reasons to make the switch: significant cost savings and an increase in operational flexibility. For example, Ranpak’s automated Cut’it! So, there’s the first saving, right there.”.

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How pop-ups helped inform Kat the Label’s new flagship store in Melbourne

Inside Retail

Nixon attributed this to consumers being online more and having more time to shop, as well as the growth of the lingerie and sleepwear industry throughout this period. Its packaging and shipping is biodegradable, and its online orders are carbon-offset. It has subsequently seen consistent growth across all its channels.

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How the Supply Chain Disruption Is Sparking Holiday Risk & Resilience

Rangeme

While retailers and consumer packaged goods (CPG) suppliers have had to grapple with COVID-19 and digital transformation, now they must also manage reduced capacity along the global supply chain, hampering holiday sales success. Shipping delays. Out-of-stocks. Today’s top supply chain risks. Source: SEI. 2 Unglesbee, Ben.

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RFID is a key technology in digital transformation

365 Retail

Technology has advanced significantly and with brands now moving into their busiest season, consumers will continue to opt for convenient shopping both online and on the high street for the ideal purchase. . Shoppers want to search, transact, acquire and consume products and services safely and easily across an entire ecosystem.

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‘Like a ghost town’: Retailers react to the Omicron wave

Inside Retail

Foot traffic is down in CBDs and shopping centres as consumers return to working from home. We then struggle to get deliveries and stock, as their workers are also in isolation. MW: To increase efficiency, we now ship online orders from the store, but none of our stores have been able to open back to normal trading.

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WHAT IS FUELING THE REBIRTH OF PHYSICAL STORES?

Retail Minded

Brand health includes customer loyalty, the consumer experience journey and customer connectivity. The store of yesteryear may be dead, but the store of today is undergoing somewhat of a renaissance.

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The Future of Retail in the New Era of Risk

Retail Prophet

If a single image has come to define the failure of global supply chains amid the Covid-19 crisis it’s that of the Ever Given – one of the world’s largest container ships – seized in a diagonal death grip inside the Suez Canal, heavy with more than twenty thousand units of cargo aboard. Slave laborers load cotton onto waiting ships.