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Sustainability and Profitability: How Embedding Sustainability can Boost Business Performance

Retail TouchPoints

To meet Net Zero goals and comply with evolving regulations, companies must integrate sustainability across the value chain from raw materials to design, sales and marketing and supply chain management. Next, turn to skills such as sustainable procurement, supply chain management and stakeholder management.

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Devising an Optimal Returns Policy for Your Business

Retail TouchPoints

Devising a new returns policy, then, entails managing a series of trade-offs that vary from one business to the next. Under lenient returns policies, retailers tend to be too quick to blame high returns on so-called “opportunistic renters” — consumers who buy with the intention of returning the item rather than keeping it.

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Rethinking Retail Fulfillment – the key to Navigating a Post-Brexit Supply Chain

Retail TouchPoints

Whilst news of a trade deal came as a huge relief, consumer rights when shopping online have not come out unscathed at the hands of Brexit. In addition, what and where inventory is placed will have a significant impact on your ability to keep orders moving to meet consumer demand. Removing the Brexit Red Tape.

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Inside the book industry’s supply chain ‘crisis’

Inside Retail

In the US, publishers are encouraging early ordering and bulk buying and holding large quantities of inventories to satisfy consumer demands. Between 2016 and 2021, the industry contracted by 6.1% , and it was expected to continue to fall. Large Australian book retailers like QBD and Booktopia have organised themselves in similar ways.

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Business Growth through Digital Transformation: The Case of Premium and Luxury Brands

Retail Focus

In a world where consumers’ behaviours, expectations, and preferences are rapidly changing, premium and luxury brands are faced with a unique challenge – how to preserve their identity and exclusivity while adapting to the digital age (Purwar 2019).

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Trillions in revenue and a million jobs: Unpacking JD.com’s 20-year roadmap

Inside Retail

In 2016, JD.com formed a strategic alliance with Walmart, taking control of the latter’s online grocery business, Yihaodian, and giving Walmart a 5 per cent stake in JD. JD.com’s global aspirations revolve around leveraging its robust supply chain infrastructure to enhance its international business operations.

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La Maison Simons wins Supply Chain Innovation Award

Retalon

La Maison Simons was able to undergo this ambitious expansion at a time when many Canadian retailers were struggling to keep their heads above water due to shifting consumer expectations, advancements in e-commerce, and a weak dollar. PHOTO: Retalon team celebrates the La Maison Simons win at the Retail Council of Canada Awards of Excellence.