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How to Win Consumer Choice in 2022: Focus on These 3 Trends

Retail TouchPoints

Consumers demand grocers and mass merchants in particular provide these last-mile services, and it’s not without challenges, as over 40% of grocery consumers cite delivery and fulfillment services as key attributes while deciding where to shop in the past year. Embracing sustainable products and practices.

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Integrate Pricing, Promotions and Markdowns to Drive Profitability

Retail TouchPoints

But at the same time merchants’ margins are being squeezed, making intelligent pricing and promotions strategies even more critical for success. You have marketing, creative and the brand vendors who are sometimes the ones initiating the promotions, so it’s a more complex process that is starting to get streamlined by technology.”

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From Barcodes to Bytes: Retailers Prepare for Next-Generation UPC

Retail TouchPoints

And in 2014, Inditex SA, which owns fast-fashion giant Zara, implemented RFID to effectively track all its products at every step in the process. Brands can include a number of features in a 2D barcode that can help improve and ease access to customer service. alongside a large QR code.

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2024 in review: The biggest hires and fires of the year

Retail Gazette

It’s not Leighton’s first time turning around the grocer after he, alongside current M&S chair Archie Norman, spearheaded Asda’s recovery in the late 1990s and helped orchestrate its sale to Walmart. Leighton succeeds Lord Rose, who will remain on the board to ensure an orderly transition before stepping down.

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FMI honors seven food industry executives

Mass Relators

The seven executives — Rick Brindle, Elizabeth Chace-Marino, Ron Edenfield, Bob Obray, Art Potash, Gordon Reid, and Joe Sheridan — have exemplified food industry excellence through first-rate company leadership, community impact and customer service, according to FMI. In 2001, industry relations was added to Rick’s responsibilities.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 319 Amazon Q1 2024 Results

Retail Geek

Furthermore, we embark on a detailed exploration of supply chain logistics, with a spotlight on Amazon’s expansion into third-party logistics services, revolutionizing traditional retail strategies by sharing proprietary capabilities for wider adoption. They had a fashion store. So it was fun. They had Amazon five-star stores.

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How Malaysian department store Pavilion is connecting with customers

Inside Retail

per cent (RM95 billion in total retail sales), and all retail sub-sectors such as fashion, department stores and grocery are expected to rebound. Making such a purchase is all about the physical shopping experience and customer service that adds to the prestige of making such an investment.