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Is Your Fulfillment Strategy Healthy Enough to Keep Pace with Customer Expectations?

Retail TouchPoints

By my recollection, the world of flexible fulfillment hit an inflection point about 15 years ago. It was at that point that putting the technology and operations in place to fulfill from an increasingly complex supply chain network embarked upon its next frontier. Let’s start with demand forecasting and inventory deployment.

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Lowe’s Expands DC-Based Delivery of Bulky Products to 8 More Regions

Retail TouchPoints

stores, to distribution center-based fulfillment of large items like riding mowers, grills and furniture. The retailer’s legacy distribution model had stores operating as nodes in the fulfillment process. Lowe’s kicked off the transition to the market delivery model in 2021 in its Florida and Ohio Valley regions.

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How AI is Revolutionising the Retail Sector

Retail Focus

AI-based pricing systems allow retailers to respond quickly to fluctuations in the market and competition. This reduces overstocking and the need for massive markdowns. AI robotics and warehouse automation can significantly improve order fulfilment speed and accuracy.

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Navigating AI Adoption: Why the Co-Pilot Approach is the Most Successful  

Retail TouchPoints

Early use cases for AI in retail include inventory management, dynamic pricing, customer service chatbots, loss prevention and personalized marketing. AI in Marketing: Creating Compelling, Engaging Content at Scale AI has revolutionized content marketing for retailers. That’s just the beginning, though.

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Dollar General Plans 575 New Stores, 4,250 Remodels, Tests Same-Day Delivery

Retail TouchPoints

in the quarter compared to 29% in Q3 2023, a decrease that was attributed to increases in markdowns and inventory damages. The net sales increase was driven by positive sales contributions from new stores and growth in same-store sales, with same-store sales increasing 1.3% over the same quarter in 2023.

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Mejuri Leverages Real-Time Profitability Data to Inform Decision-Making

Retail TouchPoints

“With COVID and recent market dynamics, tracking variable costs in real time becomes even more important. “Shopper behavior is also less predictable today, requiring more creative experimentation in merchandising and marketing. . Mejuri uses the real-time tracking to swiftly, and fluidly, pivot strategies.

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Academy Sports + Outdoors Expands Revionics Partnership to Optimize Customer-Centric Pricing

Retail TouchPoints

As part of the new multiyear agreement — which builds upon a partnership that started in 2016 — Academy will use the Revionics Base Price and Markdown solutions to not only optimize its pricing strategy but better manage inventory levels throughout the product lifecycle.

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