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‘Like a ghost town’: Retailers react to the Omicron wave

Inside Retail

We talked to four retailers about Omicron: Maxine Windram, director of specialty apparel store Brava Lingerie; Brittany Garbutt, owner and director of popular restaurant chain Pretzel Australia; Natasha Dwyer, founder of children’s clothing store Arthur Ave; and Avi Efrat, owner of Fantastic Framing. It goes on and on.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 305 Amazon and Shopify Q1 2023 Earnings

Retail Geek

Scot: [4:43] Macy’s Woodberry Amazon and apparel. And this is all about getting more efficiency so the idea is you know in the old model you placed an order and you know they ship from whatever Warehouse fulfillment center had the goods in stock so often that. Jason: [4:47] But I feel like this is.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 251 Annual Predictions 2021

Retail Geek

Jason : Made to Order apparel business > 9 figures. Amazon Shopify Competitor (shipping solution). Shipping (Shopify) – launch own DSP. Jason: [4:27] Yeah I want to say their stock was at 450 when you made that prediction and you can get it for the budget price of 1193 right now. 2021 Predictions.

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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.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 297 -GroceryShop 2022 and news

Retail Geek

Right I go out of the inventory that’s getting unpacked right now is Home Improvement and apparel that had a like a nice Spike. So I did a test order and exactly like wish the promise ship date was like 21 days. So you order this shirt and then you wait 21 days and wow.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 265 – News, retailer earnings, and listener questions.

Retail Geek

Jason: [5:17] Yeah the crazy bald super buff guy that owns his own rocket ship and then buys the company James Bond works for like I think that’s the theme for like a James Bond movies. Jason: [5:06] Yeah well a couple of That’s So a whether Jeff realize it is it or not he could only is the bond villain in this scenario.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 287 – Amazon Supply Chain Deep Dive with Marc Wulfraat

Retail Geek

For example apparel and Footwear or jewelry and even things like car parts or textbooks. A place where inventory is kept and where orders are picked act and put into the shipping carton. Um you know requirement that is different. And then from there you have after the performance center I mean think of the Fulfillment center as being.