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New merchandise offering boosts The Reject Shop’s top line

Inside Retail

Discount variety retailer The Reject Shop has reported sales of $458.3 The company ended the half with a national store network of 383, up from 376 at the end of December 2022. Like many Australian retailers, The Reject Shop is facing some near-term margin pressure from higher shrinkage and rising costs.

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How retailers can combat shrink and create an enjoyable shopping experience

Inside Retail

Retailers face continual challenges with increasingly sophisticated shoplifters causing in-store ‘shrinkage’. The FoxTag detacher is designed with additional security features to help reduce stock shrinkage and increase store profitability. It’s the optimal high-quality, reliable, and durable solution to retail stock protection.

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Shrink increases with more shoppers and thieves in stores

Retail Wire

Retailers have reported a rise in shrinkage at the same time that more people are going to stores to shop. “We definitely had an uptick since last year,” Macy’s CEO Jeff Gennette said on the retailer’s earnings call. “It’s an industrywide trend.”

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#TBT: Service Merchandise Was the OG Multi-Channel Shopping Experience

Retail TouchPoints

Service Merchandise was a bit more fun than today’s similar IKEA shopping experience because it carried more than mediocre DIY housewares and furniture. (No At its peak, the company achieved more than $4 billion in annual sales. Increasing the risk of identity theft made some customers wary of shopping in such stores.

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Why Every Café and Coffee Shop Needs a Linerless Sticky Label Printer

Star Miconics

Operating a coffee shop or café is an exercise in multitasking. Modern Labeling Technology The teams at these shops must ensure they work accurately; mistakes and shrinkage can account for 4-10% of inventory loss. coffee shop market expanded to more than 40K stores in 2023 , 7% growth over 2019.

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How smart new technologies are improving sales and reducing costs for retailers

Inside Retail

Retailers worldwide may be facing challenging times right now, but the evolution of technology – including the deployment of AI – is opening the way to dramatic improvements in productivity at all stages of the retail business model. And that’s where your Workforce Management systems come into play,” says Bretherton.

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5 Real-World Ways 5G Will Transform Retail

Retail TouchPoints

5G is really three things — speed , latency and massive connectivity ,” said Michael Colaneri, a 30-year AT&T veteran who now leads the telecom’s retail business vertical. Here are five places where 5G-enabled experiences/solutions are either being tested or have already been deployed at retail. What is 5G, Really?