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

Inside Retail

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. Its packaging and shipping is biodegradable, and its online orders are carbon-offset. The brand endeavours to buy dead-stock from larger brands, which it redesigns into its own pieces.

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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. MW: To increase efficiency, we now ship online orders from the store, but none of our stores have been able to open back to normal trading. Brittany Garbutt: It’s one big domino – we struggle with staff shortages, as they are all in isolation.

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How the Supply Chain Disruption Is Sparking Holiday Risk & Resilience

Rangeme

Shipping delays. Trans-Pacific cargo ships face bottlenecks in major ports like Los Angeles, and these shipping delays threaten access to merchandise. As contingency plans, more executives are finding new vendor partners and sourcing domestically to keep their supply chains closer to home. Out-of-stocks.

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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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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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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.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 273 – Amazon FBA Roll-ups with Alex Kopco of Forum Brands

Retail Geek

Scot: [11:03] A lot of people that have worked at Amazon that start companies they bring a lot of the management principles over is that something you plan on doing or you’re just like starting with the clean white board. Alex: [38:43] Oh my gosh.