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Retail’s Last-Mile Challenge

Retail TouchPoints

In London, as shoppers return to storied Oxford and Spencer streets after long COVID-19 lockdowns, they’re being greeted by the sight of boarded-up windows and a $23.4 retailers pay for failed deliveries, or the $309 billion the industry paid in 2019 (about 20% of ecommerce sales) on returns, according to an Appriss Retail research report.

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Zebra Technologies releases 16th Annual Global Shopper Study

Mass Relators

–   Zebra Technologies Corporation  has announced the findings of its 16 th Annual Global Shopper Study that confirmed retailers are feeling the omnichannel squeeze, particularly with managing online returns and reducing shrink caused by theft, fraud and other contributing factors.

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How Retailers Meet Tough Challenges Using NVIDIA AI 

Nvidia

and “What happens to my margins if Susie Consumer purchases three of the same dresses online and returns two?”. NVIDIA partners Everseen and Graymatics provide asset protection applications at the point of sale to reduce shrinkage and provide customers a faster self-checkout experience.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 282 – Cyberweek Recap with Salesforce’s Rob Garf

Retail Geek

Rob returns to the show for the third time ( EP249 and EP110 ) to talk about November, and especially cyber week e-commerce sales. We cover e-commerce sales in November 2021 vs 2020 and 2019. we saw a shrinkage of 6% of product catalogs so retailers are being conservative. First cyberweek in the u.s.