Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In addition to this timing variation, over 60% of shoppers plan to do their browsing online, yet 85% expect to buy at least one product in a store. Add it all up and it’s clear that the timing duration, and location of holiday shopping is not like the old days. And don’t forget the shopper looking for that end-of-season deal.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The result of unreliable projections are inventory imbalances: mistakes in planning, purchasing, and inventory management, resulting in inventory levels that don’t match actual demand. Retailers carry tens or hundreds of thousands of SKUs, far too many for buyers to accurately forecast every product at each channel/location.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The result of unreliable projections are inventory imbalances: mistakes in planning, purchasing, and inventory management, resulting in inventory levels that don’t match actual demand. Retailers carry tens or hundreds of thousands of SKUs, far too many for buyers to accurately forecast every product at each channel/location.

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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

direct-to-consumer e-commerce orders), retailers now have to worry about fulfilling orders across multiple complex channels and B&M locations. Instead of turning every B&M store into a fulfillment node, some retailers have realized massive cost savings by centralizing fulfillment to a select few locations.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

All costs associated with the transfer — from logistics and store capacity to demographic diversity and the sizes and colors most likely to sell at the specific location — are incorporated automatically. In-Stock Percent. But for most retailers, the restocking process doesn’t begin until inventory starts to run low at a specific store.

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Markdowns Promotions Customer Experience Fulfillment 32

Retalon

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

All costs associated with the transfer — from logistics and store capacity to demographic diversity and the sizes and colors most likely to sell at the specific location — are incorporated automatically. In-Stock Percent. But for most retailers, the restocking process doesn’t begin until inventory starts to run low at a specific store.

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Retail Prophet

JULY 18, 2022

In 1956, after almost two decades of planning, McClean’s musings became reality got when he loaded 58 metal containers in Port Newark onto the S.S. The result is slow turns, deep markdowns, write-offs, and heaps of dead stock in warehouses, much of which eventually becomes landfill. A huge saving of time and labor, he thought.

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