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Bloomberg: Party City Reaches Out to Creditors for More Liquidity

Retail TouchPoints

Party City has been faced with both challenges that are affecting retail in general — such as inflation and higher shipping costs — and those that are unique to its business, such as a helium shortage. compared to 2019. “We The retailer had about $121.5 billion in debt. However, the retailer is still struggling on the sales side.

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Amazon’s ‘Regionalization’ of its U.S. Logistics Network Leads to Reduced Costs, Faster Delivery

Retail TouchPoints

Amazon has been overhauling its logistics network to “regionalize” where inventory is located across the U.S. in an effort to reduce delivery costs while maintaining the fast shipping speeds the company is known for, multiple sources report and Amazon has confirmed.

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4 Key Steps to Profitable Store-Based Fulfillment

Retail TouchPoints

The dramatic increase in ecommerce volume triggered by the pandemic increased many retailers’ topline revenues, but many are finding it difficult to contain the costs of new types of order fulfillment such as BOPIS, ship-from-store and curbside pickup, according to a report from Incisiv , commissioned by Manhattan Associates Inc.

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#RSP22: Everything You Need to Know About Holiday 2022

Retail TouchPoints

The Retail TouchPoints 2022 Retail Strategy & Planning (#RSP22) webinar series, now available on-demand, offered a wealth of tips and best practices across critical areas including pricing, location-based technology, inventory management and marketplaces.

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What are Retail Markdowns?

Wiser

Inventory management will rarely be the only thing that makes a retailer successful, but it can absolutely be the something that breaks you. Knowing what your customers like is one thing, but understanding how much of each item you need on shelves and how to price them is where inventory management can go awry.

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Direct Store Delivery vs. Warehousing: Which is Right for Your Brand?

Wiser

Should you ship your products directly to retail stores and bypass the go-between, or is there something to be said for letting your retail partners own the distribution to individual stores? Direct Store Delivery, or DSD, is a method of retail distribution where manufacturers ship merchandise directly to a retailer via a distributor.

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Tech by design: The Long-Awaited Adoption of e-paper at Retail

VMS

Integrated with the retailer’s SKU-level pricing data, a cloud-based content management system (CMS) automatically updates regular and promotional pricing based on any criteria imaginable: price zone, day of the week, time of day, inventory levels, even sales demand levels. In 2019, the U.K.-based

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