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Meet Lindsay Nicholas, the fashion designer bringing NY edge to Melbourne

Inside Retail

With luxurious touches, such as a VIP area with velvet chairs, a personal shopping service, and free domestic shipping for in-store customers, Nicholas calls it “one of the most elegant stores” she has ever seen. Of course, life doesn’t always turn out as we plan, and we wound up moving to Melbourne in 2017.

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4 Critical Steps for Optimizing Omnichannel Order Fulfillment in 2021

Retalon

Omnichannel order fulfillment that drives customer experience (and boosts profits). In retail, omnichannel fulfillment is the process of getting products to customers across many different channels (delivery from DC, drop-shipping, in-store pickup, contactless pick-up, etc.). That’s the billion dollar question.

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Top 3 Challenges in Demand Forecasting, and How Analytics Solves Them (2022)

Retalon

The forecast of future sales demand informs almost all of the decisions a retailer makes throughout the product journey: Planning. Price elasticity of demand, meaning the effect that a set price will have on demand, is an important consideration when setting prices, running promotions, or markdowns. Customer experience.

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Is Your Fulfillment Strategy Healthy Enough to Keep Pace with Customer Expectations?

Retail TouchPoints

It was no longer enough to route orders to a handful of DCs and drop ship vendors. When it came to inventory planning and optimization, stores were planned, allocated and/or replenished, and transacted with their customers entirely separately from the digital channel.

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Marks & Spencer’s Turnaround Strategy, Why it’s Working

Indigo 9 Digital

That means if there is slow moving merchandise the retailer doesn’t have to worry about taking markdowns to sell the inventory. Selling groceries online has also helped Marks & Spencer attract younger customers. Marks & Spencer plans to lean more into its food offerings in the future.

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The Order Fulfillment Process in 2022 and Beyond

Retalon

Some factors affecting this decision include the proximity of the storage location to the customer, inventory availability, and the labour involved. Methods are established to transfer inventory from storage to customer. Customer preference (fulfillment). Ideally, inventory is available in the location nearest to the customer.

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How Smaller Assortments, Lower Inventory Levels Can Maximize Post-COVID Success

Retail TouchPoints

By creating narrower product assortments and limiting inventory levels — especially for product shipments headed to brick-and-mortar stores —merchants would gain the ability to react more quickly to changing consumer trends, and even potentially reduce their need for markdowns. What can the retailer learn from and improve?