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Non-Alcoholic Brand Boisson Files for Bankruptcy Protection, Closes all Stores

Retail TouchPoints

“This and other difficult decisions have been made, including the decision to close all retail locations. Bodkins took pains to stress that Boisson’s setback is not a failure for the NA category at large.

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Can Nearshoring Prevent the Next Supply Chain Crisis?

Retail TouchPoints

Retail TouchPoints (RTP): How are the increasing demands for fast fulfillment affecting supply chains? That increases the need for [domestic] storage locations, including warehouses and retail stores that are close to where your markets are. What you offer [in terms of fast fulfillment], and to whom, is very important.

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How Woodman’s Markets is Harnessing In-Store ‘Anti-COVID Robots’

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Woodman’s Markets operates 230,000-square-foot stores with approximately 100,000 SKUs each, and like most grocers its inventory was hit hard by shoppers stocking up early in the pandemic. In addition to finding misplaced displays, the robots can detect pricing mistakes and sale price discrepancies.

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Getting to Grips with Gen Z

Retail TouchPoints

First, for Gen Z, location is no longer immutable but fluid; it is wherever the brand is, so it is less about brick-and-mortar and more about cyberspace. The challenge for brands in reaching this consumer, whose trust is not easily won — and maybe even harder to retain — involves which views they will act on.

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In the Wake of ‘Returnageddon’ Retailers Seek New Solutions to an Age-Old Problem

Retail TouchPoints

It was the kind of “-geddon” that could be seen coming from a mile away — a perfect storm combining an ecommerce boom; retailers, fulfillment centers and shipping providers that were already stretched thin by a global pandemic; and the historically hectic holiday season looming. Return Meets the Resale Economy.

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