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Consumers Turn to BNPL, BOPIS to Cope with Rising Prices and Supply Chain Uncertainty

Retail TouchPoints

Some of the most popular gift-giving categories are those experiencing the highest levels of inflation, including electronics , toys and apparel. Even outside of the holiday season, uptake in buy now, pay later (BNPL) services is exploding in the U.S., This is causing many Americans to stress this holiday season.”.

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How Retailers Can Control Costs Even As Return Rates Climb

Retail TouchPoints

In the wake of COVID-19, returns are receiving serious (and necessary) attention for several key reasons: Retailers are spending more processing returns in stores. However, apparel and department stores are elevated. Normally, apparel returns are roughly 7.5% Infection Control: Burden Or Benefit?

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How Smaller Assortments, Lower Inventory Levels Can Maximize Post-COVID Success

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers, particularly those in the apparel, footwear and soft goods verticals, have an opportunity to turn the lemons from COVID-19 into lemonade, according to Keith Jelinek and Richard Maicki, Managing Directors in the Performance Improvement Practice of Berkeley Research Group (BRG).

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 258 – Retailer Owned Brands and Other News

Retail Geek

Um and you know nobody wanted to like store anything information in their platform and all these things and, um I would say a lot of healthcare providers like suddenly discovered out of necessity that there are plenty of HIPAA compliant ways to do telemedicine and Amazon has both.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 300 – Goodwill Finds CEO Matt Kaness

Retail Geek

We cover many of the tactical challenges (onboarding SKUs, product content, fulfillment, and curation), as well as the opportunities of this new “CircularCommerce” space. Scot: [18:46] Did some point I think I saw a ModCloth working to the stores where you there for that. And we wound up. [29:43]