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Can Nearshoring Prevent the Next Supply Chain Crisis?

Retail TouchPoints

“While we’ve returned to some sense of normalcy, the VUCA [volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous] proposition has become a reality,” said Dr. Thomas Goldsby, Professor and Chair in Logistics in the Supply Chain Management Department of the University of Tennessee. We’re now battle-tested.” To provide a 99.5%

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How Retail Tech Solutions Address Stadium Concessions Gripes

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This has so far been extremely useful for retailers to manage inventory and monitor products in cases of shoplifting. One retail tech trend picking up steam is radio frequency identification (RFID), which can automatically identify and track tags attached to objects.

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Challenges Faced by Emerging Brands in the Retail Industry

Retail TouchPoints

It could be problematic for a retailer if a brand can’t fulfill orders or support the brand in their stores, resulting in retailers offering their shoppers recognized household names across their network of stores.

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Challenges Faced by Emerging Brands in the Retail Industry

Retail TouchPoints

It could be problematic for a retailer if a brand can’t fulfill orders or support the brand in their stores, resulting in retailers offering their shoppers recognized household names across their network of stores.

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

Retail TouchPoints

The robots also provide location data down to four-foot sections, which Woodman’s Markets will use to empower associates when it comes to fulfilling online orders and stocking shelves. The robots also can improve merchandising. This will help them make better-informed decisions about how much shelf space each item needs.

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How Technology is Supporting the Era of ‘Value’ and ‘Values’

Retail TouchPoints

It also guarantees that every employee is going to have a tool to help the customer and that they’re going to do timekeeping, schedule management and interacting with management and operating procedures. Inside a store , for example, retailers invest in a mobile solution, a shelf solution, a solution to track their inventory.

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Spend your Christmas time well with this game-changing e-commerce platform

Inside Retail

Backed by the power of the Salesforce platform, business owners no longer need to manage different platforms and plug-ins to track inventory, sales, shipments, digital marketing, customers & tax,” StoreConnect founder and CEO Mikel Lindsaar says. “By The interface for our operations team in fulfilling orders is a complete breeze.