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How Hot Topic and Lamps Plus Mastered Inventory Management and More

Retail TouchPoints

Smart retailers are realizing that their increasingly complex omnichannel offerings have made strong supply chain management more important than ever. They are at the cusp of all things digital, which drives us on everything, from payment options to search — and ultimately, from a merchandising platform standpoint.

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Trending The Rules: Top Retail Trends Are Trending At An Unprecedented Rate

Retail TouchPoints

Smooth Operators Appeal Online And Off. Whether click-to-pay for e-Commerce or contactless payments for traditional commerce, efforts to improve online and offline checkout experiences did not originate with COVID-19. Offline, contactless payments also provide two critical functions to physical stores that have remained open.

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Dropshipping: What it is & why it might be smart for your small business

Clover - Retail

Dropshipping is a type of supply chain management in which a retailer does NOT keep the product it sells in stock. Instead, when a customer orders the product, the retailer contacts their manufacturer or wholesale merchant–who keeps inventory of the product on-hand–and has the product shipped directly to the customer.

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Ten competitive strategies of successful retailers

I Vend

They have become ever more demanding about what they want: service, price, choice, convenience, omnichannel retail, frictionless checkout – and if they’re not satisfied, they simply go elsewhere. So the first common feature we see in successful retailers is their customer-centricity. You can read on next month in part 2.