Mass Relators

JULY 26, 2022

Food inflation is double digits and affecting customers’ ability to spend on general merchandise categories and requiring more markdowns to move through the inventory, particularly apparel. is requiring more markdown dollars. said Doug McMillon, Walmart president and chief executive officer.

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Independent Retailer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The lucky ones managed to balance stock levels reactively, replenishing a steady stream of their best-selling products as the orders came in; even successfully growing their business. Of course, this level of demand could not be maintained, and in 2022, they dropped considerably.

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Retail Minded

AUGUST 27, 2022

The lucky ones managed to balance stock levels reactively, replenishing a steady. Of course, this level of demand could not be maintained – and in 2022, they have dropped. Among them, a global supply chain crisis – rife with driver shortages and lengthy shipping. considerably. improve.

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Shein is vertically integrated allowing it to go from design to shipping in as little as three days. Inditex, Zara’s parent company planned to close up to 1,200 stores by the end of 2022 and open 450 new stores. If you can’t move all of the inventory then markdowns are required which eats into sales per sq.

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Indigo 9 Digital

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

That means if there is slow moving merchandise the retailer doesn’t have to worry about taking markdowns to sell the inventory. It looks like this long suffering high street stalwart has turned a sharp corner, proof that management's transformation strategy is paying off,” said Streeter. Brining groceries online.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 31, 2023

But as ghastly as this figure is, it is down by $172 billion from 2022. billion , “but down $174 billion and after 2022 showing tremendous improvement in product availability,” according to the report. this year over 2022, compared to just a 10% increase worldwide. Inventory distortion, which is equivalent to 7.2% worldwide. “The

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Retalon

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

For example, global supply chains have long been: Overproducing goods in foreign factories with lax labor laws Monopolizing finite raw materials in Third World countries Relying on trade agreements to keep international shipping cheap Using just-in-time inventory practices, taking the resilience of supply chains for granted.

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Retail Prophet

JULY 18, 2022

If a single image has come to define the failure of global supply chains amid the Covid-19 crisis it’s that of the Ever Given – one of the world’s largest container ships – seized in a diagonal death grip inside the Suez Canal, heavy with more than twenty thousand units of cargo aboard. Slave laborers load cotton onto waiting ships.

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