Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Over the course of her 30-year career, The Vitamin Shoppe CEO has held leadership roles at Godiva , Sally Beauty , Pier 1 , Bath & Body Works , Gap and The Disney Store. It’s been a while since she’s been on the front lines though — not since the late ‘80s to be exact, when she was a manager at Express.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2022

The first Amazon Style store is set to open later this year at The Americana at Brand shopping mall in Los Angeles. “We In mid-2021 rumors also surfaced of plans for large-footprint department stores , although Amazon hasn’t formally announced anything along these lines. There will be humans working the store too.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 23, 2022

Many of them are making investments into the additional distribution space to cater for last-mile fulfilment as well as to house extra inventory to protect against shortages. Without the chains or the shops on the ground to be able to help with fulfilment and returns, it all has to come back to warehouses and warehouse hubs.”.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

As the supply chain issues and labour shortages that defined the 2021 festive period are more or less resolved, the opportunity for a strong peak period presents itself. In fact, in 2021, the UK alone accounted for over ten per cent of global Black Friday searches online. Inventory management is key.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Instead of only shipping to customers’ homes, retailers let online customers shop from their local and online store’s inventory and pick up their orders from their closest brick-and-mortar location the same day. A retail fulfillment process that is known as BOPIS — Buy Online, Pickup In-Store. What is BOPIS?

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M19 Retail

AUGUST 24, 2021

Neil Moses has been named to The Software Report’s Top 50 SaaS CEOs for 2021. ThryveAI was established in 2020 as an Mi9 Retail brand, and has become a leading provider of fulfillment and e-commerce solutions for retailers in the U.S. Mi9 Retail CEO, Neil Moses, Named to Top 50 SaaS CEOs Report for 2021. Recent Posts.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In 2021, returns cost retailers a whopping $761 billion , or almost 17% of total U.S. This often gets the item back to the retailer in a quick enough turnaround to resell the items at the same price, avoiding margin loss. They must approach inventory management, merchandise accuracy and return policies strategically.

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Retalon

JANUARY 5, 2021

Some stores will be overrun with inventory, while others will struggle to keep up with demand. So it’s no surprise that retailers are beginning to take a serious look at their mid-season inventory balancing practices. Most of today’s inventory management issues start at the level of forecasting.

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Retalon

MAY 11, 2021

Retail dashboards display the state of a retailer’s business in a visual, at-a-glance format designed to help retailers track and improve key elements of retail performance. Inventory management dashboards. It remains up to the analysts to glean actionable insights at the significant cost, time, and resources.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Retail TouchPoints 2022 Retail Strategy & Planning (#RSP22) webinar series, now available on-demand, offered a wealth of tips and best practices across critical areas including pricing, location-based technology, inventory management and marketplaces. However, there are other dynamics at play that will impact seasonal results.

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Independent Retailer

APRIL 19, 2022

billion worth of products were sold globally during the two-day event in 2021, a staggering 1,144 percent increase on its inception in 2015. To win the battle for survival in 2022, sellers must utilize inventory management methods far in advance of the event to know when and how much to order, so their stock is not depleted for the big day.

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Retalon

APRIL 27, 2021

It can analyze billions of data points and predict demand at a level of granularity that’s simply impossible to reach using Excel. In effect, this means a reduction of total inventories, maximized sales, and reduced markdowns. Order fulfillment automation. check out their story here).

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Mass Relators

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Reporting directly to Tony Zuazo, Dollar General’s executive vice president of global supply chain, Joyce will lead the company’s supply chain functions, including inventory management, product fulfillment, supply chain strategy and demand chain management. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 1, 2021

“Consumers are now reacting to that and replenishing a lot of the things that they didn’t spend on before,” said Joseph Nemia, Head of Asset-Based Lending at TD Bank in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “So The most important aspect, from an inflationary standpoint, is inventory management for the customers now,” said Nemia.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2023

Back-to-college spending was essentially flat from 2021 to 2022, dropping from $1,200 to $1,199 per household, and the back-to-school spending average rose just $15 ,from $849 to $864. I think that the back-to-school season target audience has expanded,” said Matthew Katz, Managing Partner at SSA & Co.

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365 Retail

JUNE 8, 2022

In 2021, sorting out product refunds cost retailers an average of over £15,000 a month. Significant revenue gets lost when mass quantities of orders are returned, leaving retailers with a ton of inventory that is then discounted, liquidated, or even thrown out. Place Sustainability at the Heart of Your Returns Process.

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Small Biz Trends

JUNE 29, 2023

Multitasking abilities: Representatives often handle multiple tasks and a variety of customer concerns at once. Customer Service Representative Officer Job Description: Templates for Hiring at Your Business To simplify the process, here are some templates you can use and customize to fit your organization’s needs.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2021

At this time last year, declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic sent shockwaves through the grocery industry, which ran flat out to keep up with the unexpected surge in demand. Online grocery shopping sales grew 54% for the year and are predicted to top $100 billion in 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 1, 2021

“Consumers are now reacting to that and replenishing a lot of the things that they didn’t spend on before,” said Joseph Nemia, Head of Asset-Based Lending at TD Bank in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “So The most important aspect, from an inflationary standpoint, is inventory management for the customers now,” said Nemia.

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Retail Insider

MAY 21, 2021

The Retail Insider 2021 Transforming Retail Awards is now open for entries. This week we tackle the Best Connected (aka Multi-Channel) category – a very modern way of looking at retailing but one which retailers have really been forced to take up during the pandemic if they were not doing it pre-Covid-19. Now open for entries.

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Retail Insider

MAY 21, 2021

The Retail Insider 2021 Transforming Retail Awards is now open for entries. This week we tackle the Best Connected (aka Multi-Channel) category – a very modern way of looking at retailing but one which retailers have really been forced to take up during the pandemic if they were not doing it pre-Covid-19. Now open for entries.

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Retail Insider

MAY 21, 2021

The Retail Insider 2021 Transforming Retail Awards is now open for entries. This week we tackle the Best Connected (aka Multi-Channel) category – a very modern way of looking at retailing but one which retailers have really been forced to take up during the pandemic if they were not doing it pre-Covid-19. Now open for entries.

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Mass Relators

AUGUST 30, 2021

Antuit.ai, owned by a consortium led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, utilizes AI and machine learning algorithms to ensure its customers have the right product in the right place, at the right time, at the right price based on the current state of the supply chain, store inventory, and consumer demand. The antuit.ai

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Retail Insider

MAY 21, 2021

The Retail Insider 2021 Transforming Retail Awards is now open for entries. This week we tackle the Best Connected (aka Multi-Channel) category – a very modern way of looking at retailing but one which retailers have really been forced to take up during the pandemic if they were not doing it pre-Covid-19. Now open for entries.

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Retail Insider

MAY 21, 2021

The Retail Insider 2021 Transforming Retail Awards is now open for entries. This week we tackle the Best Connected (aka Multi-Channel) category – a very modern way of looking at retailing but one which retailers have really been forced to take up during the pandemic if they were not doing it pre-Covid-19. Now open for entries.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

This year is all about margin and profitability,” said Rob Garf, VP and GM, Retail at Salesforce in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “ After a couple of years of getting really scrappy to leverage the store in new and creative ways, particularly around fulfillment, retailers are looking to figure out how to automate and create scale.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2022

For example, during the pandemic’s peak, Build-A-Bear Workshop successfully evolved its brick-and-mortar business to offer more flexible and efficient fulfillment services so it could capitalize on surging ecommerce demand. In Q4 2021, it processed 70% of online orders through its stores. It transformed [the business].”.

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Retail Bound

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Ecommerce sales increased significantly into 2021 as more people shifted from physical stores to online shopping. This is the time for eCommerce retailers to analyze their shipments and fulfillment. An efficient eCommerce order fulfillment process is crucial when it comes to the success of your business.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 13, 2023

However, with retailers feeling more pressure to streamline omnichannel fulfillment, supply chain visibility has risen to the top of the priority list. In 2021, the average cost of an RFID tag was four cents , down 80% from 2011, according to McKinsey. As a result, IDTechEx expects 39.3

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Retail Minded

MAY 14, 2022

An entire at-home gym kit – complete with power rack, barbell, bench and plates – became their star product, and Bells of Steel held its own as a popular DTC home-gym supplier for the next decade. I’d also seen MS Dynamics in action and was shocked at the complicated back-end, which just looked like a mass of spreadsheets.”.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 17, 2022

Unified commerce is the new holy grail for retailers, promising previously unheard-of levels of customer insights and control over all elements of sales and inventory management. Smarter inventory management enabled by unified commerce allows stores to resell the item or return it to the warehouse.

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Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Episode 313 is preview of Holiday 2023 with Rob Garf , Vice President and General Manager, Retail at Salesforce. Advantageous this is after the fact I hope it is and again we’ll do our best so yeah and I’ve been I always thinking about it thinking into this conversation now at Salesforce for over 7 years but I came.

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I Vend

JANUARY 20, 2021

Here are our predictions on the tech trends that will shape retail in 2021. billion in 2019 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of over 27% from 2020 to 2026. For 2021, our prediction is that social commerce will become an even more integral part of the digital commerce experience for retailers and shoppers alike.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2021

The pandemic’s disruption of the retail industry has driven a lot of change over the past 15 months, from an increase in online shopping to the rapid adoption of omnichannel fulfillment options. The actualization of being able to buy, receive and return goods from virtually anywhere is now moving at warp speed. And despite U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Consumers switched brands at a rapid pace during the pandemic, and research from McKinsey indicates that 30% to 40% of consumers are continuing to do so when brands don’t meet their expectations. Certainly Walmart , Amazon and Target did much better than the specialty or regional retailers.”.

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I Vend

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

But recent times have seen a step change, with more retailers than ever to look at how they can automate and streamline their business – and they’re turning in their droves to cloud retail solutions as an enabling platform. per year between 2021 and 2025. Retailers need to be able to manage inventory in one place.

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I Vend

OCTOBER 7, 2021

I’ve written about customer experience on numerous occasions this year – citing it as one of the top four priorities for retailers in 2021. iVend Digital Commerce iVend helps retailers offer a range of online fulfilment options. At one large US retailer, Click and Collect/BOPIS orders grew by 70% yty in 2020.

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