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As Consumer Demand for Inclusion Rises, Retailers Must Tackle Legacy Issues and Attitudes

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When brands and retailers try to bring extended sizing to market, they need to determine how many SKUs they need to allocate to specific stores to accommodate in-store shopping and online fulfillment. Even staple items such as organic cotton T-shirts were priced higher when manufactured in extended sizes.

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(Some of) the Technology that is Empowering the Customer Channel in Physical Retail

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Today, retailers and brands need to support their customers how, when and where they want to shop. It’s seamless and can reorient around a customer’s changing needs, sometimes at a moment’s notice. . Customers (or should I say “shoppers”) don’t look at different channels. Virtual shopping. They are in control.

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KPIs In Retail: 7 Essential Metrics to Level Up Your Retail Game

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This metric can be used when planning your store layout. Improve space planning & store layout. Let’s say you recently launched a marketing campaign, like a window display promotion, to drive more people into your shop. There are several ways to improve your customer relationships, some of which include: .

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A Crisis Will Always Find A Supply Chain’s Weakest Link

Retail TouchPoints

As consumers avoided in-store grocery shopping, many began baking their own bread at home. For many, departmental silos prevented forecasting and inventory teams from working together to identify patterns and relay information to store space planning teams. The Flour Shortage: How Packaging Impacts Supply Chains.

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VMSD’s 2021 Designer Dozen: Future Proofing

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Nominated by their peers, these multidisciplinary designers, architects and visual merchandisers have demonstrated a dedication to design excellence as well as a commitment to advance the customer experience at retail in ways we are only beginning to imagine. She is also responsible for working on shop-in-shops.