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Why growth is slowing at e-commerce giant Shopee

Inside Retail

Marketplace revenues grew at a 62 per cent clip, while gross merchandise value (GMV) was up 27 per cent and the total number of orders grew 42 per cent to 2.0 At some point, though, something has to give, because at this low percentage there is too much money being left on the table. After peaking at $366.99

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Harrolds exits Pacific Fair after rent negotiations fall through

Inside Retail

“We have had to pull many levers during the last 12 months to mitigate the impacts of Covid-19 to our business nationally, including reducing operating expenses and attempting to negotiate revised rental agreements,” said Harrolds’ managing director Ross Poulakis.

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Emerging trends in IoT gateway and edge application management in a cloud native paradigm

Cisco Retail

Traditionally, IoT solutions were typically used to reduce operational expenses and increase operational equipment efficiency (OEE). With the onset of the pandemic however, the need for managing business operations remotely across these IoT verticals has increased rapidly. High frequency data processing.

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Inventory Management Workshop

DMS Retail

In this new Inventory Management Workshop ONLINE , you’ll get the benefit of a comprehensive program which covers all aspects of the Buying, Inventory Control and Category Management functions as well as Online and Digital Marketing, and much more. Sourcing is an important and very time sensitive task in buying management.

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Risky Business: Latest Benchmarks Show How Financial Industry Can Harness NVIDIA DGX Platform to Better Manage Market Uncertainty

Nvidia

Amid increasing market volatility, financial risk managers are looking for faster, better market analytics. Boosting the state of the art for risk platforms, NVIDIA DGX A100 systems running Red Hat software can offer financial services firms performance and operational gains. Efficiency for Reduced Operating Expenses.

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Ancora Holdings Calls for New Kohl’s CEO and Chairperson Following Rejected Acquisition Offers

Retail TouchPoints

Ancora cited Kohl’s repeated rejection of acquisition offers, including from Sycamore Partners and Acacia Research in February 2022 and Franchise Group in July 2022, as part of the need for new management. The offers had valued Kohl’s at $65 and $60 per share, respectively, well above the current share price of $27.50.

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H&M, DoorDash Eliminate a Combined 2,750 Jobs as Retail Layoffs Continue

Retail TouchPoints

“Most of our investments are paying off, and while we’ve always been disciplined in how we have managed our business and operational metrics, we were not as rigorous as we should have been in managing our team growth,” said Tony Xu, CEO and Co-founder of DoorDash in a publicly shared message to employees. That’s on me.