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

Retail TouchPoints

Especially in apparel, this can be an incredible drag on margins. Suggestive selling drives incredible value for retail brands – especially those in lifestyle or image. Were alternatives recommended? Inventory isn’t moving itself; skilled floor teams are the difference between turns and aging inventory.

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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. Good people make the difference.

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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.