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Can Nearshoring Prevent the Next Supply Chain Crisis?

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That increases the need for [domestic] storage locations, including warehouses and retail stores that are close to where your markets are. Once these materials get dedicated to [making a particular product] for a specific customer or location, that’s when the stakes get raised.

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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. The robots also can improve merchandising.

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

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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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