Retail Dive

MARCH 8, 2023

The retailer has relied on data and analytics to forecast demand and make decisions around purchasing and pricing.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Key areas of focus will include driving profitable consumer traffic, enhancing inventory management, further advancing digital growth and evolving the value delivery model. Keith Melker Melker’s most recent position was CEO of Wehner Multifamily, a Texas-based property management company.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 3, 2024

What a difference two years make: Dollar General was enthusiastic enough about self-checkout in June 2022 that it announced trialing 100% self-checkout at 200 stores. Dollar General also is focusing on reducing turnover among managers, in part with improvements to supply chain and merchandising functions. billion , a 6.1%

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I Vend

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

We can see the importance of inventory management during the three key stages of the holiday season: Preparation – before the holiday season rush, retailers need to plan and forecast to ensure they know what is most likely to sell, via which channel and in which stores. . What is the role of hand-held devices in inventory management?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

million of liquidity available at the end of Q3 2022, including about $92 million of availability under asset-based credit lines, against nearly $1.8 million for Q3 2022, which ended Sept. The retailer had about $121.5 billion in debt. However, the retailer is still struggling on the sales side. Net sales were down 1.6%

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Walmart also has built out its inventory management capabilities at its U.S. stores through the August 2022 acquisition of Volt Systems , a solution provider that offers suppliers enhanced on-demand visibility into merchandising resources.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2022

As we navigate an interesting year of retail revival, now is the perfect time to make some small shifts and shrewd strides forward into 2022. 4) Think Big: Improve supply chain and inventory management. Act small: Add a feature to your website allowing customers to search inventory availability in local store locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Nordstrom reported a 12% sales increase for the quarter ended July 30, 2022 as customers updated their wardrobes and returned to events. However, like many retailers, it revised its outlook downward in the face of rising inflation — revenue growth for fiscal 2022 is now projected at 5% to 7% , down from 6% to 8%.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2025

From 2018 to 2022, companies that embraced digital leadership saw average annual shareholder returns of 8.1% , compared to 4.9% As AI continues to prove its worth in critical areas like inventory management and security, the pressure to adopt these technologies also is mounting.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

“The Tally robot allows us to address inventory and pricing challenges with incredible precision while giving our store teams the tools they need to focus on what matters most — serving our customers.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2023

While the 2022 holiday season was by all accounts a success, retailers may want to buckle down as they head into the new year: four out of 10 U.S. While the 2022 holiday season was by all accounts a success, retailers may want to buckle down as they head into the new year: four out of 10 U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

billion for Q4 2022, which ended Jan. Net sales for fiscal 2022 decreased 4% year-over-year to $7.5 In addition, we continued to be disciplined in our expense and inventory management.” Bed Bath & Beyond reported net sales of $2.9 28, 2023, down 5% compared to Q4 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2022

Discount variety chain Dollar General is looking to self-checkout as a way to “leverage and reinforce our position as a low-cost operator,” COO Jeff Owen told analysts on the company’s Q1 earnings call on May 26, 2022. Now, Owens said the company also plans to begin testing a 100% self-checkout store format across 200 locations this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Cornell’s decision to remain in the leadership role was made following last month’s news of Target’s Q2 2022 performance, which saw net earnings drop 90% from Q2 2021. Valdez will be succeeded by Gretchen McCarthy, SVP of Global Inventory Management, effective immediately.

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Inside Retail

JULY 22, 2021

Having a centralised fulfilment centre for stores replaces our historical push model, and will result in improved inventory management, reduced markdowns and maximised sell-through whilst also producing significant efficiencies in our online fulfilment operations.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 28, 2023

An intelligent warehouse management system (WMS) can create schemes for where different products are stored and makes every subsequent task — picking, packing and shipping — more productive. Smart Inventory Management is Key as Ecommerce Complexity Grows Before peak season, perform a complete count of all your inventory.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 16, 2023

More and more retailers are embracing in-store automation and robotics to empower their associates and drive a great customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

External Theft According to the NRF, shoplifting and other forms of external theft, including burglary, accounted for 37% of reported shrink in 2022. Optimize inventory management: Like damaged products and shipping errors, theft can negatively impact retail inventory management.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2022

During eBay’s investor day in March 2022, eBay CEO Jamie Iannone shared the company’s vision to develop a 31,000 – square-foot storage facility and digital marketplace for authenticated trading cards and valuable collectibles. TCGplayer develops applications, inventory management tools and hardware such as robotic sorting machines.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 22, 2022

Amazon also made a major investment in economic initiatives in March 2022 as part of its $2 billion Amazon Housing Equity Fund. The ecommerce giant is providing $124.4 million to build 1,060 affordable homes near four public transit sites in Washington State’s Puget Sound region and the Arlington, Va. region.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 5, 2024

In 2021 the retailer opened its first store outside the Northeast and now operates 13 stores in Florida, and in 2022 The Paper Store opened its first Signature Store, featuring a 12,000-square-foot footprint — double its previous stores’ average size — and new ways for customers to shop.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

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. To the employees she worked with while undercover she was Marie, a former gift shop manager from Ohio whose quest for a new start was being recorded for a documentary.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 17, 2022

It’s hard to say that 2022 has been the year of ecommerce so far. Adding automation to your digital marketing strategy enables you to manage and optimize important ad elements such as bids, keywords and ad text in real time to ensure your campaigns are always tweaked to get the best results for the least amount of spend. Advertising.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2023

billion in 2022 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 28.4% IoT solutions enable retail stores to monitor and manage their equipment, including HVAC systems and refrigerators. Example: Walmart Walmart is applying IoT technologies for effective store equipment management. Inventory management. from 2023 to 2030.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 25, 2025

According to the company, from 2022 to 2023, sales increased by 8 per cent, followed by an even stronger surge of 16 per cent from 2023 to 2024. Sales tend to surge in the final two weeks of Ramadan, and understanding these peak periods allows brands to optimise promotions and inventory management accordingly, he said.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2024

With the help of programmatic platforms like The Trade Desk , hundreds of retailers can monetize their shopping data, or take monetization a step further by providing managed service advertising campaigns — allowing an agency to operate programmatic campaigns — targeted with their shopper data.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Get ready, get excited, retailers and customers alike, the 2D barcode, a compact square label with splotches and spaces that encode up to 350X more data than a traditional UPC (4,000 characters) will have a significant impact on managing the business and delivering better customer experiences. Doesn’t that sound amazing?!

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 26, 2022

The rapidly growing retailer, which raised $100 million in a February 2022 funding round, plans to open 25 new stores in 2022 , with more coming in 2023. Foxtrot will be among the innovative thought leaders presenting at the 2022 Retail Innovation Conference and Expo on May 10-12, 2022, in Chicago.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 29, 2022

Keeping pace with consumer trends and changing behaviours is key to the success of retail operations, particularly when managing the impact of current global events on supply chains to ensure they’re able to consistently meet demand. . Trying before buying’ will play a big part in contributing towards the growing volume of returns in 2022.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 2, 2023

During the 2022 Singles Day period , according to figures released by Alibaba, 62 influencer and merchant-run livestreaming channels surpassed CN¥100 million ($20.86 According to McKinsey in 2022, the average B2B customer now uses more than 10 channels to engage with a company, up from five channels in 2016. million) in gross revenue.

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M19 Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Why Your Supply Chain Management System Depends on the Right Retail Inventory Management Software In today’s complex retail environment, managing a supply chain management system is no small feat. The Pareto Principl e , or the 80/20 rule, often applies here: 80% of sales come from 20% of SKUs.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 25, 2025

The Effect on Supply Chains and Inventory Management Inflation turns warehouse shelves from assets to albatrosses. Some brands dropped entire product categories after being burned by the 2022 inventory glut, which resulted in the liquidation of $48 billion in overstock merchandise across retail channels.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2022

For most stores with multiple locations, procurement has largely been a centralized process, with each location requesting and receiving inventory from the parent corporation, as needed. But supply chain disruptions resulting from the pandemic forced many store managers to go rogue and do whatever was needed to stay in business.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Sales across all four brands – Rebel, Macpac, Supercheap Auto and Boating, Camping and Fishing (BCF) – were up by about 15 per cent, while its profit grew by about 30 per cent for the six months to 31 December 2022. I think we’ve been proactive in managing the business and preparing it for a dynamic period.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 13, 2023

billion passive RFID tags to be sold in 2023, up from 33 billion in 2022. Turning RFID Technology into Business Value According to IHL Group research, retailers already using RFID in 2022 saw 83% higher sales growth and 80% higher profits. As a result, IDTechEx expects 39.3

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Essentially a form of dropshipping, this has helped Asos expand its range without the hassle of inventory management. In the UK, Marks & Spencer, a 150-year-old retailer, started out with third-party brands a few years back before moving to a dropship model in 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2023

In 2022, a National Retail Federation/Prosper Insights and Analytics survey indicated that 56% of consumers had started their BTS shopping by early July, with 81% planning to shop sales the week of July 11. Perhaps more worrisome for retailers, 2022 saw a leveling-off of household spending on education-related purchases.

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