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Non-Alcoholic Brand Boisson Files for Bankruptcy Protection, Closes all Stores

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While this is certainly disappointing, taking these actions will allow the company the opportunity to put forth a restructuring plan aimed to focus on the wholesale distribution and ecommerce divisions, which continue to operate, accepting and fulfilling orders without interruption.”

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Can Nearshoring Prevent the Next Supply Chain Crisis?

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Retail TouchPoints (RTP): How are the increasing demands for fast fulfillment affecting supply chains? What you offer [in terms of fast fulfillment], and to whom, is very important. What kinds of pressures do these demands put on them? To provide a 99.5% Retailers have to right-size consumer expectations.

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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. They need the ability to install and have optimally running tech solutions that require minimal maintenance, which deploying at the edge can support.

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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. In addition to finding misplaced displays, the robots can detect pricing mistakes and sale price discrepancies.

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Saving Shoppers from the Sea of Sameness

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Have you made it easy for them to share with customers what makes your brand stand apart, and how it will solve the customer’s problem or fulfill their need? Are the features and benefits that make your brand unique top-of-mind with them?

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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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In the Wake of ‘Returnageddon’ Retailers Seek New Solutions to an Age-Old Problem

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It was the kind of “-geddon” that could be seen coming from a mile away — a perfect storm combining an ecommerce boom; retailers, fulfillment centers and shipping providers that were already stretched thin by a global pandemic; and the historically hectic holiday season looming.

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