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How Woolies is using 2D barcodes to increase sales and transparency

Inside Retail

The same barcode that you use at your point-of-sale can also be scanned on a phone by the consumer so they can access a lot of information about the products they’re buying. Their journey began in 2017 with just loose produce. “At

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The Future of Retail in the New Era of Risk

Retail Prophet

In 1956, after almost two decades of planning, McClean’s musings became reality got when he loaded 58 metal containers in Port Newark onto the S.S. The result is slow turns, deep markdowns, write-offs, and heaps of dead stock in warehouses, much of which eventually becomes landfill. A huge saving of time and labor, he thought.