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

Inside Retail

We then struggle to get deliveries and stock, as their workers are also in isolation. Managing staff in isolation means a drop in sales as well, given 20 per cent more people are locked in the house undergoing isolation. Naturally, we then suffer lower sales, as our customers [are] also in isolation. It goes on and on.

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

Retail Times

It’s where your management office will be located, where you’ll receive shipments, where your staff will first discover the exciting new inventory, and where your extra stock will live. 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!” .

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WHAT IS FUELING THE REBIRTH OF PHYSICAL STORES?

Retail Minded

For example, Target recently reported that as much as 75% of its online orders involved their stores in some capacity: be that buy online, pickup in store (BOPIS), curbside pickup, ship from store, local home delivery from store stock, or even buy online, return in store (BORIS).

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How Aussie label Form & Fold is building a better swimwear brand

Inside Retail

Every year, we learn more about our customers, or more about social media, or how to better manage our email [marketing]. We really want to extend our size range, but it’s such an undertaking, and you’re left with so much dead stock because it’s really hard to forecast. Another thing is SKUs. That’s a big one.

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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. Source: SEI. 2 Unglesbee, Ben. Bhattarai, Abha. The Washington Post.

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RFID is a key technology in digital transformation

365 Retail

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). . This means that retailers need strong store teams and robust technology to create a fluid customer experience while simultaneously managing costs. . As a result, it is?recommended

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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.