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How Edge Computing Enables the Retail Store of the Future

Retail TouchPoints

The past few years have been a rollercoaster ride for the retail industry. The pandemic and related supply chain disruptions led to shuttered storefronts and rampant bankruptcies. A survey from this year’s World Retail Congress suggests that the uncertain times aren’t over for the industry.

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How do ethical concerns shape fast-fashion purchases?

Inside Retail

Is the most important information on the label or the price tag? Global supply chains have helped such exploitation to hide and thrive. Given that many retailers are themselves ignorant about their own supply chains , it is asking a lot to expect the average consumer to unravel the truth and make ethical shopping choices.

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

Retail TouchPoints

Editor’s note: This is the fourth article in our series on AI in retail. Be on the lookout for the fifth article, which will cover the many still-unanswered questions around AI’s present and future. Can AI-Powered Supply Chains Autonomously Find and Fix Problems?

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Avoiding Stockouts: 5 Preventable Causes of Out-of-Stocks and What to Do About Them

Retail Times

Stockouts almost always make it to the “worst nightmare” lists of retailers, and for good reason. Between shipment variances, misplaced products, returns, and stolen goods, retailers find that the inventory numbers they have on paper (or on screen) often don’t match what they have in their stores. Inaccurate data. Learn More.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 269 – Amazon and Instacart get new CEOs, other news

Retail Geek

I feel like more than half my life right now is retail media networks so they are super trendy and the dirty secret is most of them. Are not very high volume yet right like the retailers are investing all this money and collecting ad dollars but they don’t actually have. And / Benedict’s point like I do think.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 293 – E-Com leadership changes and news

Retail Geek

Interestingly he went to a company that’s been in the news a lot called Flex Port their CEO has been on CNBC and the all in podcast talking about how to fix the supply chain problems. Jason: [4:04] And for newest nur’s that’s actually the correct way to spell Scott is it not.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 258 – Retailer Owned Brands and Other News

Retail Geek

Meanwhile, retailers are quietly launching new “owned brands” every year that sell over $1B. Jason: [7:27] Yeah and then I mean we just have so much so many challenges on friction in the healthcare system that we should like we shouldn’t be like fragmenting supply and demand with all these arbitrary virtual borders I guess.