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NOT Your Dad’s Supply Chain: 4 Trends Every Retail Exec Should Know for 2024

Retail TouchPoints

It has gone through a rapid period of change from the primary way we shopped, to its death being prematurely called ‘ the showroom problem ,’ to continuing to be a critical piece of consumer brand strategy. 3: Buy in-store, ship to home is gaining speed. Brands want to capture that sale and move inventory. They want to know.

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Improving Supply-Chain Sustainability For A Circular Economy: Three Positive Steps for Retail

Retail TouchPoints

Consumers today want to know exactly what they’re buying — and many of them want to know how it was sourced, made, packaged, distributed and will be disposed. Brands can build lasting relationships with consumers by providing relatively granular product information to address their questions and concerns. Order Consolidation.

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Identifying the ‘Faces’ Behind Faceless Online Transactions

Retail TouchPoints

Consumer preference for online shopping continues to rise, as more purchases are being made online than in stores with each passing year. retail sales surpassed general merchandise sales for the first time in history. Because of this ease, merchants have begun relying on POS financing to drive sales growth.

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Retail Consumer Behavior Patterns and Shifting Dynamics: The Future of Retail & Retail Trends

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

The Retail market landscape has seen significant changes in retail trends and shifts in consumer behavior since the coronavirus breakout, but the industry now appears more optimistic about the growth prospects. New Look Stores. Retailers are also now tasked with turning temporary store hacks into longer-term standards.

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Three key trends in retail strategy for 2023

Inside Retail

During the pandemic, direct-to-consumer e-commerce brands took centre stage, including popular Australian activewear brand LSKD. Yet consumer demand is not wavering and fashion trend cycles are shorter than ever due to social media, fast fashion, and technology. And Nike and Adidas entered the metaverse at full speed.

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Digital Transformation Propels Burton’s Omnichannel Growth Plans

Retail TouchPoints

While the name Burton is almost synonymous with the snowboards the company began making in 1977, Burton has diversified over the years into new categories — including surfboards, apparel, goggles/optics and other sports gear — as well as expanding beyond manufacturing into direct-to-consumer (DTC) retail, both physical and digital.

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The Future of Retail in the New Era of Risk

Retail Prophet

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.