Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 7, 2022

It’s been another year of record-breaking ecommerce sales combined with unprecedented snarls across shipping and inventory ecosystems, so it should come as no surprise that return rates for 2021 are expected to have gone through the roof. Getting at the Root of Apparel and Footwear Returns.

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365 Retail

JUNE 8, 2022

But with great gains come great returns. 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. In a store?

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2020

Organizations would do well to identify secondary suppliers that can help mitigate risks in their supply chain. Companies will face a number of challenges as they look to return to normal once the worst of the current crisis has passed. The second truth, of course, is that you can never have too much toilet paper.

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Supply Chain Management Management Returns Fulfillment 261

Inside Retail

AUGUST 25, 2021

As we closed out 2020, all data sources pointed towards households reverting to pre-Covid behaviours and a return to a more consistent and predictable purchasing rhythm. Sporadic outbreaks aside, the supermarket industry was returning to something close to normality. Scope a project with us.

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Consumer Supply Chain Management Returns Supermarket 147

Independent Retailer

APRIL 20, 2021

Supply Chain Management. When the pandemic first began, supply chains were under immense pressure as workers needed to push through being understaffed while maintaining safety protocols. This way, shoppers can see precisely what they want to purchase, which reduces return rates and improves satisfaction.

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Supply Chain Management Advertising Point of Sale Customer Experience 77

Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Russel Creedy, group CEO, joined the business in 2001 as supply chain manager and served as GM for Pizza Hut in New Zealand. Parés acknowledged their key role in the firm’s milestone of achieving more than one billion New Zealand dollars in sales for 2021. He took on the CEO role in 2007.

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Beauty and Health Supply Chain Management Management Returns 130

Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

US fashion firm VF Corporation has, for several years, been on a mission to make its supply chain operations more sustainable and ethical. IR: Can you tell me about the process of getting feedback from the migrant workers in VF’s supply chain, and how the business then uses that to make changes?

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