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

Retail TouchPoints

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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‘Retail is a combination of creativity and analytics’: H&M’s Linda Li 

Inside Retail

Since joining H&M in 2014, Li has worked her way through several different roles at the Swedish-born accessories and apparel brand, including merchandising, store development and e-commerce, to her job as head of customer activation and marketing for H&M Americas.

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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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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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How Retail Tech Solutions Address Stadium Concessions Gripes

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This has so far been extremely useful for retailers to manage inventory and monitor products in cases of shoplifting. One retail tech trend picking up steam is radio frequency identification (RFID), which can automatically identify and track tags attached to objects.

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

Retail TouchPoints

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.