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Is Uber the Next UPS?

Retail TouchPoints

Four to five days is the maximum acceptable wait time during the holidays, and for the rest of the year that shrinks to two to three days , according to Sean Whitehouse, Managing Director of Strategy & Consulting, Supply Chain & Operations, Retail Lead at Accenture in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Customer returns: Five fundamentals to recoup revenue

365 Retail

of global sales in 2017, to 21% in 2022. Retailers should be using an inventory management platform that provides a real-time overview of their stock. Use Centralised Cloud-based Software to Manage Data. The pandemic has not been kind to many things, but to ecommerce, it’s been an unprecedented period of success. In a store?

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Direct-to-consumer retail is about dynamism, as well as data

365 Retail

The company has been steadily culling its roster of retail partners since 2017, and recently withdrew from major fashion retailers like Urban Outfitters to focus on online growth, brick-and-mortar expansion, and customer proximity. Convenient fulfilment. Going direct: every capability counts.