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Rethinking Pricing: How Dynamic Markdowns can Combat Food Insecurity

Retail TouchPoints

Unlike surge pricing or dynamic pricing, dynamic markdowns ensure consumers consistently receive the best value while helping retailers manage inventory and reduce shrinkage. This approach not only promotes affordability but also enhances sustainability by reducing waste and improving shelf rotation in supermarkets.

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Kmart MD talks Target merger, shrinkage, and adapting to customer behaviour

Inside Retail

While value for money is undoubtedly a large focus for retailers moving forward, stamping out shrinkage is another. Both supermarkets also explained that organised crime syndicates are becoming more sophisticated, and are hitting harder.

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Data and security have become key competitive advantages for all retailers

Inside Retail

They are looking at things like speed and convenience, and self-checkout has become commonplace in all supermarkets and convenience stores today. He believes AI-powered computer vision technology used to reduce shrinkage will help identify instances of customers swapping cheap items for expensive ones by changing labels.

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How 5G Will Power a New Retail Experience

Retail TouchPoints

With the ability to increase the number of devices and people connected to the network, retailers finally have the technology and price point required to move this from a concept to a mainstream solution, including high-volume big box stores and supermarkets.

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The Future of Ecommerce Demands a Better Understanding of Online Consumer Journeys

Retail TouchPoints

Some shoppers are stocking up on Instacart and then running into their local supermarket for a fill-in trip. Are online more of a weekly stock-up trip, and the trip to the store more for when they forgot eggs or need some specific ingredient? But those data lapses don’t mean your ecommerce program isn’t working.

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“It’s taking a toll”: How retail theft is changing, and what to do about it

Inside Retail

In the US, for example, department store Target recently blamed a US$593 million reduction in its gross profit on organised retail crime, with shrinkage causing its profit margin to fall by around US$400 million. “We

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‘Not acceptable’: Drakes director exposes rising cost of retail theft

Inside Retail

Drakes Supermarkets is losing around $10 million each year largely due to theft in stores, according to company director John-Paul Drake. We lose approximately $10 million a year on shrinkage – that covers a range of things but the majority of that is goods that are unaccountable,” Drake said. “It’s Global problem.

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