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How pop-ups helped inform Kat the Label’s new flagship store in Melbourne

Inside Retail

From pop-ups to a permanent location. It’s a central location where people can travel here, but there’s also enough eyeballs on it to make it worthwhile from a brand awareness point of view,” Metcalfe said. It will also continue its pop-up stores, with an opening planned in Los Angeles next year, and a Gold Coast pop-up on the horizon.

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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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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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The Future of Retail in the New Era of Risk

Retail Prophet

If a single image has come to define the failure of global supply chains amid the Covid-19 crisis it’s that of the Ever Given – one of the world’s largest container ships – seized in a diagonal death grip inside the Suez Canal, heavy with more than twenty thousand units of cargo aboard. Slave laborers load cotton onto waiting ships.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 297 -GroceryShop 2022 and news

Retail Geek

Scot: [33:57] Yeah and then yeah so I think I think they probably, you know what they’re doing is 10 experiments and getting rid of 3 and people focus on that versus the seven they’re keeping in those seven they’ll keep iterating on and making better so I don’t think it’s dead.

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Innovative Retailer: Geek Retreat

Retail Insider

The Place: Dotted around the UK so far with over 20 stores but another 14 listed as coming soon and with big further expansion plans…. You never know when Araumi of the Dead Tide might want her nails done too. Brought to you by Retail Insider and Flooid. The Name: Geek Retreat. Tick for Geek Retreat. And there are nail bars.