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

Inside Retail

From pop-ups to a permanent location. It’s a central location where people can travel here, but there’s also enough eyeballs on it to make it worthwhile from a brand awareness point of view,” Metcalfe said. Its packaging and shipping is biodegradable, and its online orders are carbon-offset.

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12 Stockroom Organization Ideas and Guidelines to Implement in Your Retail Store

Retail Times

It may not be the sexiest part of your store, and it doesn’t get a lot of customer eyeballs, but your stockroom is still a critical part of your physical location. Manage it right, and the stockroom will help you run a tight ship. Once she “ found a dead mouse in a ‘return to vendor’ pile!” . But if you mismanage it?

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RFID is a key technology in digital transformation

365 Retail

Physical locations will be critical to building and maintaining the flexibility demanded of retail supply chains, with stores now serving as fulfilment centres or distribution points. Gartner also says that half of the online orders are now handled by a store, through either click-and-collect or store fulfilment (ship-from-store). .

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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.

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4 Critical Steps for Optimizing Omnichannel Order Fulfillment in 2021

Retalon

Maintaining margins within business constraints while efficiently providing order fulfillment to customers is a tall order, especially considering each customer purchase requires a real-time fulfillment decision within a shifting context of inventory, demand, returns, delivery times, and shipping costs. That’s the billion dollar question.

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The Fragrance Shop (TFS) partners with BetterCommerce to improve the customer experience

A1 Retail

Ship from store. TFS deployed its ‘ship from store’ functionality in November 2020. Instead of having to rely on just one warehouse, this feature turned 201 stores across the country into fulfilment centres, giving customers access to any fragrance from any store location. Some of the key solutions are outlined below.

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Sustainable Supply Chains in 2022 (and Beyond)

Retalon

For example, global supply chains have long been: Overproducing goods in foreign factories with lax labor laws Monopolizing finite raw materials in Third World countries Relying on trade agreements to keep international shipping cheap Using just-in-time inventory practices, taking the resilience of supply chains for granted.