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How Ikea Australia plans to champion affordability and the shopping experience

Inside Retail

We responded by ensuring affordability was at the forefront for the customer. However, international shipping disruptions in the Red Sea and global conflict’s potential impact on oil prices will continue to put pressure on product availability and costs. What impact has that had on the business?

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Address Labor Shortages by Creating Attractive Retail Career Paths

Retail TouchPoints

For a very long period, the last 20 to 30 years , real wages in retail were flat,” said Dr. Michael Mandel, Chief Economic Strategist at the Progressive Policy Institute in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. Many of these changes are recent: “Ship-from-store wasn’t economically viable [as recently as] two years ago,” said Ritter.

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The Future of Shopping: What to Expect in 2032

Retail TouchPoints

By 2032, digital will be the most important area of their business, and sectors that today have remained relatively untouched — motor vehicles and parts, convenience stores, furniture/home furnishing stores, building material, and more — will have reinvented their digital posture and orientation.

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Expert Tips for Handling Inventory Surplus

Storis

One of the challenges home furnishings retailers are facing today is having excess inventory due to prolonged supply chain delays. As a retailer, you want to ensure you have enough inventory to fulfill your customers’ orders but not too much that you have a hard time selling it. Speak to a Home Furnishings Retail Expert.

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Cross-Channel Home Décor Retailing: 5 Take Away Lessons from The Game Changers

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

While brick and mortar stores still play a strategic role in this market vertical, online shopping has skyrocketed, and with $294 billion expected in online home furnishing sales by 2022, retail store owners can no longer afford to miss out on the opportunity to ramp up their cross-channel game plans. What is cross-channel retailing?

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(Some of) the Technology that is Empowering the Customer Channel in Physical Retail

Retail Next

It’s seamless and can reorient around a customer’s changing needs, sometimes at a moment’s notice. . Customers (or should I say “shoppers”) don’t look at different channels. Half shipped, half in store? Ship to store? Shoppers look at a retailer and engage how, when, why and where they want to. Fulfillment.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 254 – Walmart and Shopify earnings and retail sales data

Retail Geek

Jason: [2:04] Yeah yeah so it’s very cool I feel like I remember some of our very first podcast we’re like early in you know as SpaceX was knocking off all these milestones and we were we were talking about those a lot at the beginning of podcasts and. Five years later we’re still doing it. was a pretty big beat.