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The Waste Management Challenge of the Holiday Season

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The holiday season brings a surge in shopping, both in-store and online. From mountains of packaging to returned products that may contain hazardous materials, management of returned, damaged or expired products becomes increasingly complex and voluminous during the holidays and post-holiday season.

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Sensing, Not Seeing, with Vision AI as Retail’s Crystal Ball for the Future

Retail TouchPoints

This ensures that like items are not stored randomly across a warehouse and allows retailers to accurately manage inventory. It is important to understand the needs of your business, the demands of your customers and the budget and timelines you will need to create an impact and see true ROI.

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Can Nearshoring Prevent the Next Supply Chain Crisis?

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“While we’ve returned to some sense of normalcy, the VUCA [volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous] proposition has become a reality,” said Dr. Thomas Goldsby, Professor and Chair in Logistics in the Supply Chain Management Department of the University of Tennessee. We’re now battle-tested.”

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How Retail Tech Solutions Address Stadium Concessions Gripes

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The retail technology revolution has brought forth many new innovations such as palm scanning and AI chatbots over the last few years, all of which have sought to meet the same goal: improving the customer experience. This has so far been extremely useful for retailers to manage inventory and monitor products in cases of shoplifting.

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How Technology is Supporting the Era of ‘Value’ and ‘Values’

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It also guarantees that every employee is going to have a tool to help the customer and that they’re going to do timekeeping, schedule management and interacting with management and operating procedures. RTP: You spotlighted smart shelves as a way for retailers to connect their digital and physical experiences.

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How RFID is Powering Perry Ellis’ Customer Operations, from Inventory Planning to Checkout

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Perry Ellis is managing this challenge through the rollout of RFID technology, in partnership with Mojix , that will help the retailer manage its supply chain from the store level all the way through broader inventory planning.

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NRF 2024 Preview: Hear From Top Execs at Levi’s, Ulta Beauty, FedEx — and Magic Johnson

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That includes POS systems that can manage both merchandise and menu items, as well as inventory management software that once only had to track the latest fashion trends and are now being used to ensure fresh ingredients are in stock for the lunch rush.

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