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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. Retail workers are quitting at record rates for higher-paying work: ‘My life isn’t worth a dead-end job.’ Out-of-stocks. Source: SEI. 2 Unglesbee, Ben. Retail Dive.

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

A1 Retail

Ship from store. TFS deployed its ‘ship from store’ functionality in November 2020. This functionality was an excellent enabler for the business during Covid-19, increasing orders and satisfying delivery times, whilst selling inventory which was at risk of being written off as dead stock. Customer 360.

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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 310 Sam’s Club VP of E-Com, Sabrina Callahan

Retail Geek

Sabrina: [11:29] Yeah yeah I walked around this morning it was so nice you Dallas is brutal yeah I did you ever see the thing that went viral with the guy who he was pointing out the temperatures and then he showed McKenney and it was like a hundred thousand degrees he’s like everyone in McKinney’s dead.

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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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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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Jason & Scot Show Episode 251 Annual Predictions 2021

Retail Geek

Amazon Shopify Competitor (shipping solution). Shipping (Shopify) – launch own DSP. Jason: [4:27] Yeah I want to say their stock was at 450 when you made that prediction and you can get it for the budget price of 1193 right now. Grocery E-Com > 10% someone deploys(not pilots) MFC. Retail Media > $20B.