article thumbnail

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

Retail TouchPoints

If a legacy POS is your plan to manage the complex web of inventory — amid the many different ways today’s consumers buy and receive products — please… Let us know how that works out for ya! Especially in apparel, this can be an incredible drag on margins. Omnichannel doesn’t mean “starts online” and retailers automatically embrace it.

article thumbnail

Where Have All the Salespeople Gone?

DMS Retail

but no sales associates who seek out customers to attend to them…to sell to them. For retailers who allow the merchandise, the placement, visual effects, the brand image and all other things not human to do the suggestive selling, well…it’s going to be tough to double up on productivity. How do I implement a Productivity Plan?

article thumbnail

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. You sometimes they’re able to sell through your stuff and your top line sales can even be okay but your margins get really hammered and so. [41:52]