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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 feel that we have enough levers at our disposal to be able to continue to do that.” While value for money is undoubtedly a large focus for retailers moving forward, stamping out shrinkage is another.

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“It’s taking a toll”: How retail theft is changing, and what to do about it

Inside Retail

In the US, for example, department store Target recently blamed a US$593 million reduction in its gross profit on organised retail crime, with shrinkage causing its profit margin to fall by around US$400 million. “We Townsley urged retailers to make it as easy as possible for staff members to report customer aggression and product loss.

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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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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. trillion in 2026.”.

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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.

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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).