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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. If the stock hadn’t been moved, we would have lost a good portion of it.”. Narrow escape.

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

Inside Retail

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. Naturally, we then suffer lower sales, as our customers [are] also in isolation. It goes on and on.

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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

Podcast about e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. 5:32] E-commerce and digital marketing obviously but it’s watchable and changeable, and movable and it can be with you the rest of your life that that led us to a whole design philosophy that now. [5:42]

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How Aussie label Form & Fold is building a better swimwear brand

Inside Retail

Carly had studied business and marketing, and we basically crashed our parents’ holiday in Europe. Every year, we learn more about our customers, or more about social media, or how to better manage our email [marketing]. SK: The awareness and marketing are unbelievable. Stephanie Korn: We were fresh out of uni.

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

Retail Geek

Jason: [1:48] Yes unfortunately not a large enough chunk of the total addressable Market are Geeks. And this is all about getting more efficiency so the idea is you know in the old model you placed an order and you know they ship from whatever Warehouse fulfillment center had the goods in stock so often that.