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Next Steps in Sustainable Apparel Retail: Consumer Communication and Carbon Offsets

Retail TouchPoints

A logical next step is for merchants to educate themselves about the sustainability of the brands and items they sell, particularly in the apparel space. Of course, apparel retailers themselves may be uncertain about the most effective methods to reduce their carbon footprints and those of their supply-chain partners.

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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%

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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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Mi9 Ranked 2nd in Customer Satisfaction and Quality of Support on the 2023 RIS Software LeaderBoard

M19 Retail

Mi9 Retail is a retail software platform that enables retailers to automate and optimize their merchandise management, store operations, retail analytics, and eCommerce. RIS Software LeaderBoard Mi9 Retail Rankings: #2 – Customer Satisfaction for Department Store/Mass Merchant Vendors. #2 About Mi9 Retail.

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More Private Label, Smaller Store Footprints: How COVID-19 Is Accelerating Existing Retail Trends

Retail TouchPoints

Mass merchants in particular have benefited from this change: private label sales in the segment have increased by 41% over the past five years , approximately 4X higher than overall private label growth. COVID-19 Creates The Foundation For Private Label Renaissance. growth rate. In comparison, one hot market that may cool off is resale.

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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.