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Kmart MD talks Target merger, shrinkage, and adapting to customer behaviour

Inside Retail

If you’re looking at this over a time period, the greater benefits [will come] in FY25-26,” Bailey said. We’re confident that we can continue to hit the lowest price in the market, and make good margins which are appropriate for our shareholder returns.

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The Future of Ecommerce Demands a Better Understanding of Online Consumer Journeys

Retail TouchPoints

It now sits at an estimated 22% of all sales, according to a 2022 Morgan Stanley global ecommerce forecast report , which notes that “Over the long term, the ecommerce market has plenty of room to grow and could increase from $3.3 We’re getting close, but at this point it isn’t even an apples-to-oranges comparison.

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How 5G Will Power a New Retail Experience

Retail TouchPoints

Thanks to vastly reduced latency and increased speeds, it allows significantly more devices to access the internet at the same time. In addition, if the shopper is not ready to buy everything, they can send the data to their mobile phone to easily purchase it at a later date. Technology Snapshot.

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‘Not acceptable’: Drakes director exposes rising cost of retail theft

Inside Retail

Drakes Supermarkets is losing around $10 million each year largely due to theft in stores, according to company director John-Paul Drake. We lose approximately $10 million a year on shrinkage – that covers a range of things but the majority of that is goods that are unaccountable,” Drake said. “It’s

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More than plexiglass: Experts weigh in on rising retail crime rate in US

Inside Retail

Factoring in the roughly US$700 million of inventory shrinkage that occurred in 2022, mainly attributed to retail crime, the company is on track to lose up to a total of US$1.2 billion due to organised retail crime over the past two years alone. billion due to theft in 2023 alone. Walmart is cited as a prime example.

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While tech giants have their heads in the clouds, this is why other retailers don’t need to follow suit

A1 Retail

By Ofri Ben Porat, Chief Executive Officer at Edgify. Loss prevention teams call this inevitable outcome “external shrinkage”. Which is why it is so encouraging to see retailers utilising new technology to reduce the impact of shrinkage. Instead, it’s possible to train deep learning AI models at the point of sale (PoS).