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Tackling the Growing Problem of Fashion Returns Earlier in the Supply Chain

Retail TouchPoints

According to Canada Post , 46% of shoppers made a return in 2020, compared to only 37% in 2019, which equates to nearly $430 billion worth of merchandise winding back into warehouses. Circling back into the feedback loop, manual supply chain management can contribute to product inaccuracies, thus further heightening the levels of returns.

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Behind Documents’ path to luxury fragrance leadership in China

Inside Retail

Gentle Monster commissioned Zhaoran’s agency to collaborate on a dessert brand called Nudake, for a chain of premium cafes now spanning Beijing, Shanghai, and Seoul. Around 2019, my design team and I started to look around to see if there were any opportunities to create our own consumer brand,” he said.

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Bringing Sustainability and Innovation to the Grocery Store Supply Chain

Retail TouchPoints

This innovative collaboration provides a framework to assess environmental and energy efficiency as goods move through a company’s supply chain. KeHE joined SmartWay in 2019 and relies on its tools and approaches to track and reduce emissions and fuel usage. Consider new technologies.

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Trustwave SpiderLabs Report: The 2023 Retail Threat Landscape

Inside Retail

trillion in 2022, marking a 209 per cent increase from 2019, according to Comscore. Third-party risk and exposure: As with many sectors, the retail industry is increasingly reliant on third-party vendors for a variety of services, such as point-of-sale systems, payment processing, supply chain management, and customer relationship management.

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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). Degree of Integration: The degree of digitalisation within brand processes differs.

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Analysis: Synergies begin to show after merger of SEA hypermarkets

Inside Retail

This will suit companies with strong supply-chain management capabilities and the ability to operate multiple formats in the whole hierachy of locations from major metropolitan areas through to provincial cities and towns, all the way down to rural locations.

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How VF Corp is tackling modern slavery in its supply chain

Inside Retail

In 2019, a VF impact assessment of our global value chain helped us identify priority salient human rights issues for our operations and supply chain, including responsible recruitment and migrant workers. Inside Retail: Firstly, can you tell me about how VF is tackling responsible recruitment?