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Stores underwater, staff displaced: Floods take major toll on Aussie retail

Inside Retail

Queensland-based online homewares retailer The Somewhere Co narrowly escaped losing tens of thousands of dollars in stock last week, thanks to the timely opening of a new warehouse outside the flood zone three days before the rain began. Its head office, located just 200 metres away from the Brisbane River in Newstead, QLD, wasn’t as lucky.

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12 Stockroom Organization Ideas and Guidelines to Implement in Your Retail Store

Retail Times

It may not be the sexiest part of your store, and it doesn’t get a lot of customer eyeballs, but your stockroom is still a critical part of your physical location. Manage it right, and the stockroom will help you run a tight ship. Once she “ found a dead mouse in a ‘return to vendor’ pile!” . But if you mismanage it?

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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. That’s the billion dollar question.

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The Fragrance Shop (TFS) partners with BetterCommerce to improve the customer experience

A1 Retail

TFS needed to initiate the shift online while managing a huge influx of traffic and staying on top of business KPIs, but it didn’t want to lose its autonomy. TFS looked to BetterCommerce to help manage this seismic shift and create a smooth transition from physical only to a hybrid of digital and physical commerce. Ship from store.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 314 – Lovesac Founder and CEO Shawn Nelson

Retail Geek

10, 20, 50, 100, 250 locations now. 10, 20, 50, 100, 250 locations now. We don’t, we don’t stock things there. And yeah, it is, I was like, I’m not going to look at the stock, it’s not going to influence me.

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Sustainable Supply Chains in 2022 (and Beyond)

Retalon

For example, global supply chains have long been: Overproducing goods in foreign factories with lax labor laws Monopolizing finite raw materials in Third World countries Relying on trade agreements to keep international shipping cheap Using just-in-time inventory practices, taking the resilience of supply chains for granted.

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RFID is a key technology in digital transformation

365 Retail

Physical locations will be critical to building and maintaining the flexibility demanded of retail supply chains, with stores now serving as fulfilment centres or distribution points. Gartner also says that half of the online orders are now handled by a store, through either click-and-collect or store fulfilment (ship-from-store). .