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Can Nearshoring Prevent the Next Supply Chain Crisis?

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Retail TouchPoints (RTP): How are the increasing demands for fast fulfillment affecting supply chains? That increases the need for [domestic] storage locations, including warehouses and retail stores that are close to where your markets are. What you offer [in terms of fast fulfillment], and to whom, is very important.

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Getting to Grips with Gen Z

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First, for Gen Z, location is no longer immutable but fluid; it is wherever the brand is, so it is less about brick-and-mortar and more about cyberspace. The challenge for brands in reaching this consumer, whose trust is not easily won — and maybe even harder to retain — involves which views they will act on.

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In the Wake of ‘Returnageddon’ Retailers Seek New Solutions to an Age-Old Problem

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It was the kind of “-geddon” that could be seen coming from a mile away — a perfect storm combining an ecommerce boom; retailers, fulfillment centers and shipping providers that were already stretched thin by a global pandemic; and the historically hectic holiday season looming. Return Meets the Resale Economy.

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