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Preparing for the Rise in Online Retail Returns

Retail TouchPoints

In 2021, returns cost retailers a whopping $761 billion , or almost 17% of total U.S. This year the powerful combination of the special sale dates in Q4 (like Target, Amazon and Walmart holding October Black Friday events) and an increase in ecommerce holiday shopping means that this upward trend for returns will continue.

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Automation: The Driving Force Behind Warehouse Management Growth

Retail TouchPoints

A growing retail and ecommerce business can turn an efficient process into a multi-step nightmare with inaccurate purchasing, order fulfillment and returns processes. Hence the undeniable need for robust warehouse management technologies that are future-focused and effortlessly scalable. Sophisticated Automation. System Automation.

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Guarding the Retail Fortress: Cybersecurity Challenges and Network Interruption Risks

Retail TouchPoints

The Evolving Threat Landscape Retailers increasingly rely on digital platforms for sales, inventory management and customer engagement. A network outage can mean lost sales in the short term, as shoppers simply move to another brand for that purchase, or losses in the long term if that customer does not return.

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Choosing a Distribution Model: Drop Shipping vs Traditional Inventory

Retail Bound

Traditional Inventory: Beyond the Basics Operational Dynamics: Retailers purchase products in bulk, store them, and then ship them out as orders come in. Strategic Considerations: Inventory management becomes paramount. There are also disadvantages to using the traditional inventory model. ” says Gilmore.

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10 Online Business for Sale in June

Small Biz Trends

The products are the highest quality in the category with an activewear brand utilizing a trade secret technology to offer unique workout apparel with only a 6% return rate. The business allows you to run it from anywhere with management carried out via email and WhatsApp/Skype. Online Pet Gadget Store. The customers are in the U.S.,

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Robots, RFID tags and an incubator area: Inside Decathlon’s new Data Lab

Inside Retail

We chat with Stephan Veyret, managing director of Decathlon Singapore to find out what’s next for the business. SV: Decathlon Singapore took a digital-first approach from the get go as an ecommerce platform when we first launched in 2013.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 289 – ShipBob Co-Founder and CEO Dhruv Saxena

Retail Geek

3pls from that era that was sort of problematic and that kind of Amazon disrupted is like they used to make you manage your own inventory so if they had to. that Inventory management burden away from some of their their merchants and sort of did all that for them and did the load balancing and all those sorts of things.