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Giant Eagle to Enhance Category Management at Nearly 500 Stores

Retail TouchPoints

Giant Eagle will upgrade its category management capabilities across its 216 supermarkets and 274 GetGo convenience stores, allowing the retailer to make more informed decisions about which products are placed where within its stores.

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Food shortages are different this time: how to respond and avoid panic

Inside Retail

Australia has experienced plenty of supermarket shortages since the COVID pandemic began. This disrupted the usual rhythms of predictable supply chains. All of Australia’s supermarket supply crises were dealt with in less than three weeks. Supermarket restrictions. You really don’t need more than that.

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Sustainability Update: eBay to Sell ‘Imperfect’ Apparel in UK, Adore Me Launches Sustainable Fashion Marketplace

Retail TouchPoints

eBay UK describes its new “ Imperfects ” program as “the fashion equivalent to supermarkets’ wonky veg initiatives.” Conscious consumption is on the rise and two big names in retail have launched new programs to tap into the consumer appetite to shop sustainably. eBay UK Features ‘Imperfect’ Products from North Face, Puma and More.

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AI in Retail: Optimizing Operations from Supply Chains to Employee Scheduling

Retail TouchPoints

Retail is already seeing successful use cases: Albertsons recently rolled out a predictive ordering platform from Afresh Technologies designed for the rapidly changing nature of fresh products to more than 2,000 of its supermarkets, providing department managers with easy-to-use ordering tools leveraging real-time insights.

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Analysis: Synergies begin to show after merger of SEA hypermarkets

Inside Retail

Its marriage with Tesco Lotus virtually doubled it in importance, by making it the operator of nearly 2,700 hypermarkets, supermarkets, convenience stores and malls. Lotus’s by itself has 270 hypermarkets that typically anchor its own malls, 220 supermarkets and 2,171 convenience stores. That was in October a year ago now.

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How Covid-19 is reshaping the consumer

Inside Retail

Sporadic outbreaks aside, the supermarket industry was returning to something close to normality. Effective supply chain management, scale and in-store support are integral components of the end-to-end provided by Strikeforce.

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Save A Lot Implements Supply Chain Solution to Minimize Stockouts

Retail TouchPoints

Discount supermarket chain Save A Lot is rolling out a new data-driven supply chain solution from SymphonyAI in an effort to better meet shopper needs and minimize stockouts and substitutions.

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