Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2022

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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Retail Times

MARCH 16, 2021

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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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

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. Centralizing fulfillment.

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Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

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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Retalon

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 6, 2022

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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