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Can Nearshoring Prevent the Next Supply Chain Crisis?

Retail TouchPoints

“While we’ve returned to some sense of normalcy, the VUCA [volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous] proposition has become a reality,” said Dr. Thomas Goldsby, Professor and Chair in Logistics in the Supply Chain Management Department of the University of Tennessee. Retailers have to right-size consumer expectations.

Returns 283
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Challenges Faced by Emerging Brands in the Retail Industry

Retail TouchPoints

This accessibility has historically allowed emerging brands to scale their businesses, gain widespread distribution and seamlessly find their way into consumers’ hands. Retailers can more easily demonstrate to buyers that these brands can drive net new consumers to their categories.

Marketing 219
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NRF 2024 Preview: Hear From Top Execs at Levi’s, Ulta Beauty, FedEx — and Magic Johnson

Retail TouchPoints

The Foodservice Innovation Zone will reflect the increased roles for technology in a field that’s embracing new formats and venues to satisfy consumers’ hunger and thirst.

ATS 211
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Challenges Faced by Emerging Brands in the Retail Industry

Retail TouchPoints

This accessibility has historically allowed emerging brands to scale their businesses, gain widespread distribution and seamlessly find their way into consumers’ hands. Retailers can more easily demonstrate to buyers that these brands can drive net new consumers to their categories.

Marketing 211
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Sustainable shopping: what options are available to retailers?

Retail Focus

Not only will this reduce their own impact on the planet, but help paint their stores, and indeed wider business, in a more sustainable light that will appeal more to consumers that share a similar passion. Retailers must also consider their consumers, and modern consumers are prioritising sustainability.

Shopping 162
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Dollar General Invests in AI as it Doubles Down on Fresh Food Commitment  

Retail TouchPoints

“We have exceeded our goal of having 5,000 total stores with fresh produce by January 2024. “This collaboration is a strategic step toward improving our operational efficiency while serving our customers with improved in-stock levels of fresh produce.”

Grocer 175
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NRF 2023: How Target Makes its Culture of Inclusion Tangible

Retail TouchPoints

“We went through the exercise of understanding them and the communities that we operate in. That captures the voice of the team and helped us manage through one of the most challenging experiences any of us have had to face,” the COVID pandemic. What’s our rally call? It’s that we care, grow and win together.

Planning 252