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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. At some stage, we do need to return to normal, and we must live through the impacts, so we can get to the other side. It goes on and on.
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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Shipping delays. Trans-Pacific cargo ships face bottlenecks in major ports like Los Angeles, and these shipping delays threaten access to merchandise. Retail workers are quitting at record rates for higher-paying work: ‘My life isn’t worth a dead-end job.’ Out-of-stocks. Source: SEI. 2 Unglesbee, Ben. Retail Dive.
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We don’t, we don’t stock things there. And yeah, it is, I was like, I’m not going to look at the stock, it’s not going to influence me. 10, 20, 50, 100, 250 locations now. And it’s like, okay.
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