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How Hot Topic and Lamps Plus Mastered Inventory Management and More

Retail TouchPoints

Another key challenge for Hot Topic’s inventory management system is ensuring its BOPIS options run smoothly even as it fulfills orders across multiple channels. It manages our BOPIS component. We also have a heavy ship-from-store side, and it also drives our curbside pickup component.

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From Barcodes to Bytes: Retailers Prepare for Next-Generation UPC

Retail TouchPoints

It’s hard to believe that the invention of the UPC — first used by railroads almost 100 years ago and then introduced to speed grocery checkout lines back in 1974 — hasn’t changed. Walmart mandated that its suppliers put it on products by 2022, which has made a big impact on RFID adoption.

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4 Key Steps to Profitable Store-Based Fulfillment

Retail TouchPoints

The dramatic increase in ecommerce volume triggered by the pandemic increased many retailers’ topline revenues, but many are finding it difficult to contain the costs of new types of order fulfillment such as BOPIS, ship-from-store and curbside pickup, according to a report from Incisiv , commissioned by Manhattan Associates Inc.

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Meet Nakedvice, the brand founded by best friends in the Sportsgirl stockroom

Inside Retail

Last year, the brand partnered with Datapel, an inventory management system that Santic credits for enhancing the business’ capabilities in inventory tracking, order fulfilment and improving warehouse processes. It has also enabled the brand to ship from store if an item is out of stock.

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How to Improve Business Processes with B2B eCommerce Software

Retail Focus

Checkouts. A robust, streamlined, automated checkout will help boost sales significantly as customers can quickly move from the RFQ/quotation stage to placing an order online literally anytime, anywhere. . Inventory Management. Once you have shipped an order (or maybe even beforehand), you’ll want to get paid.

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Vitamin Shoppe CEO Sharon Leite Went Undercover in Her Stores. Here’s What She Learned.

Retail TouchPoints

million on inventory management solutions; $1.2 million on a new mobile checkout system; and The launch of The Vitamin Shoppe Cares Foundation, a peer-supported employee assistance fund to provide financial support to employees experiencing hardship. We also launched a new system, Relex , for inventory management.

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eCommerce Logistics for Retail Stores

Rain Pros

Ensure you compare different eCommerce platforms as they feature varying degrees of logistics integration that can impact order processing, shipping and delivery. Platforms with good logistics integration capabilities can ensure you can manage orders efficiently, provide accurate shipping information and streamline operations.