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‘Like a ghost town’: Retailers react to the Omicron wave

Inside Retail

Foot traffic is down in CBDs and shopping centres as consumers return to working from home. We then struggle to get deliveries and stock, as their workers are also in isolation. Managing staff in isolation means a drop in sales as well, given 20 per cent more people are locked in the house undergoing isolation.

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4 Critical Steps for Optimizing Omnichannel Order Fulfillment in 2021

Retalon

Maintaining margins within business constraints while efficiently providing order fulfillment to customers is a tall order, especially considering each customer purchase requires a real-time fulfillment decision within a shifting context of inventory, demand, returns, delivery times, and shipping costs. Emphasizing BOPIS.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 305 Amazon and Shopify Q1 2023 Earnings

Retail Geek

Scot: [2:38] Who will we have it’s been a while since we dropped a pod because we both had spring breaks and then you’ve been traveling a bit so it’s great to be back. Adjusting their returns policy as well but like they’re they’re all in on that fast same day delivery.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 251 Annual Predictions 2021

Retail Geek

The year of returns – “happy returns” – a startup raises $100M+ in space. for year of returns). Amazon Shopify Competitor (shipping solution). Shipping (Shopify) – launch own DSP. Shopify wilts a bit – new competition comes out with different angles (marketcap stays static) – No.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 252 – Amazon FBA Roll-ups with Chris Bell CEO of Perch

Retail Geek

People used to record ideas on dead trees and sometimes you need a copy of the dead tree so you could actually make a machine that duplicated the dead tree. Chris: [13:24] Oh my gosh it’s such the as this we’re still talking to UPS about shipping things from the eve of the UK and they still aren’t.