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‘Like a ghost town’: Retailers react to the Omicron wave

Inside Retail

Foot traffic is down in CBDs and shopping centres as consumers return to working from home. We then struggle to get deliveries and stock, as their workers are also in isolation. Managing staff in isolation means a drop in sales as well, given 20 per cent more people are locked in the house undergoing isolation.

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RFID is a key technology in digital transformation

365 Retail

Technology has advanced significantly and with brands now moving into their busiest season, consumers will continue to opt for convenient shopping both online and on the high street for the ideal purchase. . Shoppers want to search, transact, acquire and consume products and services safely and easily across an entire ecosystem.

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How the Supply Chain Disruption Is Sparking Holiday Risk & Resilience

Rangeme

While retailers and consumer packaged goods (CPG) suppliers have had to grapple with COVID-19 and digital transformation, now they must also manage reduced capacity along the global supply chain, hampering holiday sales success. Shipping delays. Out-of-stocks. Today’s top supply chain risks. Source: SEI. 2 Unglesbee, Ben.

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WHAT IS FUELING THE REBIRTH OF PHYSICAL STORES?

Retail Minded

Brand health includes customer loyalty, the consumer experience journey and customer connectivity. The store of yesteryear may be dead, but the store of today is undergoing somewhat of a renaissance.

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The Future of Retail in the New Era of Risk

Retail Prophet

If a single image has come to define the failure of global supply chains amid the Covid-19 crisis it’s that of the Ever Given – one of the world’s largest container ships – seized in a diagonal death grip inside the Suez Canal, heavy with more than twenty thousand units of cargo aboard. Slave laborers load cotton onto waiting ships.

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4 Critical Steps for Optimizing Omnichannel Order Fulfillment in 2021

Retalon

Consumer expectations have evolved in the digital age, and retailers are now offering a multitude of flexible order delivery methods such as “Buy online, pick up in-store”, “curbside pickup”, “order in store, deliver home” and more. So how can retailers offer these options to consumers while lowering their costs?

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Sustainable Supply Chains in 2022 (and Beyond)

Retalon

For example, global supply chains have long been: Overproducing goods in foreign factories with lax labor laws Monopolizing finite raw materials in Third World countries Relying on trade agreements to keep international shipping cheap Using just-in-time inventory practices, taking the resilience of supply chains for granted.