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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

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As a result, they are organizing the back-of-house environment in an efficient way that allows them to fulfill orders efficiently and accurately. This ensures that like items are not stored randomly across a warehouse and allows retailers to accurately manage inventory. Vision AI is Here to Stay But all vision AI is different.

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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.” To provide a 99.5%

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How Woodman’s Markets is Harnessing In-Store ‘Anti-COVID Robots’

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The robots also provide location data down to four-foot sections, which Woodman’s Markets will use to empower associates when it comes to fulfilling online orders and stocking shelves. The robots also can improve merchandising. This will help them make better-informed decisions about how much shelf space each item needs.

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Challenges Faced by Emerging Brands in the Retail Industry

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It could be problematic for a retailer if a brand can’t fulfill orders or support the brand in their stores, resulting in retailers offering their shoppers recognized household names across their network of stores.

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Q1 Results: Walmart, Target Lean on Groceries as Discretionary Spending Declines in Early 2023

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overall, but omnichannel offerings helped offset this decline: same-day services saw unspecified mid-single-digit growth, led by high-single-digit growth in Drive-Up orders, and more than 97% of sales were fulfilled by stores. One area where Target made significant progress was cutting back on excess merchandise.

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Challenges Faced by Emerging Brands in the Retail Industry

Retail TouchPoints

It could be problematic for a retailer if a brand can’t fulfill orders or support the brand in their stores, resulting in retailers offering their shoppers recognized household names across their network of stores.

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