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Frugal Shoppers: The Untapped Shopper Base You Can Reach to Win the Holiday Sales Season

Retail TouchPoints

Price comparison shopping is easy in the digital world, and these savvy shoppers will put in the work to find the best deals. These come with obstacles such as significant overhead for maintaining these channels with a high cost-of-sales, high fees and high fulfillment costs. Surviving the Surge by Load-Balancing Operations.

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How to Forecast Demand in Retail (2020)

Retalon

Inventory — even above real estate, merchandising or advertising — is the biggest investment retailers make. On top of that, even smaller retailers must address the multi-channel reality of today’s shopping environment. Those purchases may be fulfilled in-store, through direct shipments, or third-party fulfillment.