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Retail Assortment Strategies: What Are They & How Do They Work?

Wiser

For example, an ice cream shop might offer other treats like frozen yogurt, cookies, or candies to appeal to customers who aren’t looking for ice cream. Too wide and you’ll end up with leftover dead stock. This way you can rely on regular purchases with little worry of retaining dead stock.

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Behind the evolution of 107-year-old Japanese eyewear brand Tanaka Optical

Inside Retail

The Covid-19 outbreak urged consumers to change their buying and shopping behaviors not only in Singapore but worldwide. When our founder opened his first shop in Hiroshima, lenses were shaped and polished by the hands of our store staff for individual prescriptions of our customers. What inspired you to focus on sustainability?

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5 Online Hacks to Boost Local Footfall to Your Store

Retail Next

The way consumers are shopping has changed and many larger chains have failed to keep up with the trends. Although many analysts are speaking of a ‘retail apocalypse,’ research shows that most shoppers prefer visiting a physical store to shopping online, and prefer stores with an omni-channel presence. Final thoughts ….

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How charity shops became cool

Retail Gazette

With a smug smile you say ‘I thrifted it a while back’ This is a scene that is being played out in the bedrooms of many Gen Z shoppers as charity shops are fast-becoming the go-to destination for young shoppers, giving them access to brands they may never have been able to pick up without breaking the bank.

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4 Critical Steps for Optimizing Omnichannel Order Fulfillment in 2021

Retalon

This includes everything from storing inventory, processing orders, picking stock, shipping packages, and delivering orders to the end consumer. Firstly, a BOPIS model simply pushes the optimization burden to the individual stores — as consumers tend to check individual store stock before ordering.

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Sustainable Supply Chains in 2022 (and Beyond)

Retalon

This was possible because: Talented labor in other countries was cheaper than domestic workers Overseas factories began producing high-quality products at lower prices Consumers wanted goods to be equally attainable for all financial classes Increased margins allowed retailers to stock more inventory and carry larger assortments.

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The Future of Retail in the New Era of Risk

Retail Prophet

Most companies today, according to Thorbeck, are accounting only for the front-end advantage that low cost might afford them. The result is slow turns, deep markdowns, write-offs, and heaps of dead stock in warehouses, much of which eventually becomes landfill. Risks, he says, that make businesses far less competitive.