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How the Packaging Industry Can Help Tackle Confectionery’s Big Waste Problem

Retail TouchPoints

Valentine’s Day saw consumers projected to spend an average of $16 on chocolates and candy — up from under $9 per person in 2010 — while Halloween candy sales reached a record $3.1 Lowering Excess Optimizing inventory management can reduce a business’ production costs over time if more focus is given to efficient packaging design.

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Vitamin Shoppe CEO Sharon Leite Went Undercover in Her Stores. Here’s What She Learned.

Retail TouchPoints

Launched in 1977, The Vitamin Shoppe saw sales begin to decline in the early 2010’s due primarily to a lack of digital innovation. million on inventory management solutions; $1.2 We also launched a new system, Relex , for inventory management.

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Nine Tips to Create Recurring Revenue with Subscriptions

Retail TouchPoints

Free shipping has become expected by many shoppers. Additionally, free shipping is one of the most popular incentives in ecommerce. Merchants can use this to their advantage by instituting a free shipping threshold — the amount subscribers will need to spend to receive free shipping. Driving Better Business Decisions.

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Digital Transformation Propels Burton’s Omnichannel Growth Plans

Retail TouchPoints

Larocque has spent more than 20 years with Burton, becoming SVP Operations in 2010. If a customer walks into a store and says, ‘My hands are full, ship it to me,’ that’s one experience we have to offer. Our founder and chairman of the board said, ‘You need a new title.’

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Reshoring: COVID-19’s Impact On The Supply Chain

Retail TouchPoints

If a certain industry relies on offshore factories, reshoring means allocating the resources necessary to localize that production, which means organizations no longer have to depend on international deals and long-distance shipping. Between 2010 and 2018, 749,000 jobs were brought back to the U.S. Businesses are taking notice.

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12 Best eBay Listing Tools

Small Biz Trends

Auction management: The tool should help you manage your auctions effectively. The best ones include quick and easy listing, auto relist rules , inventory management, and multi-channel support. eBay Selling Manager Pro. First up is eBay’s own Selling Manager Pro , which is part of the eBay Seller Hub.

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Frictionless checkout – is it the ‘new omnichannel’?

I Vend

Retailers had long understood the need for diverse shopping channels, but in 2010 there was a lightbulb moment when they realised that simply having multiple routes to market wasn’t enough – those channels had to be integrated. The top causes of friction online are: Hidden costs – shipping, taxes, and fees.