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99 Cents Only to Close All 371 Locations, Hold Liquidation Sale in Business Wind-Down

Retail TouchPoints

99 Cents Only Stores will wind down its business and shutter its 371 locations across California, Texas, Arizona and Nevada after more than 40 years in operation. Hilco Real Estate will manage the sale of the company’s real estate assets, both owned and leased.

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How Retailers can Combat Inventory Shrinkage with Drone-Powered Warehouse Monitoring

Retail TouchPoints

There’s been a lot of talk recently about retailers reporting lower-than-expected earnings due to inventory shrinkage. According to the Corporate Finance Institute , “Inventory shrinkage occurs when the number of products in stock are fewer than those recorded on the inventory list. What does this mean exactly?

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How smart new technologies are improving sales and reducing costs for retailers

Inside Retail

These technologies are helping retailers achieve efficiencies in operational functions including staff deployment and management, customer service, shrinkage reduction and lifecycle pricing. That extends the opportunity for the salesperson to build a rapport with the customer and potentially upsell.

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More than plexiglass: Experts weigh in on rising retail crime rate in US

Inside Retail

Factoring in the roughly US$700 million of inventory shrinkage that occurred in 2022, mainly attributed to retail crime, the company is on track to lose up to a total of US$1.2 billion due to organised retail crime over the past two years alone.

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Effective Ways to Utilize Video Surveillance

Independent Retailer

According to the 2020 National Retail Security Survey , retail theft, or shrinkage, is at an all-time high. In fact, in 2019, shrinkage accounted for an average rate of two percent of inventory, calculated at retail, costing the industry a record $62 billion. Remotely Manage Retail Locations.

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Effective Ways to Utilize Video Surveillance

Independent Retailer

According to the 2020 National Retail Security Survey , retail theft, or shrinkage, is at an all-time high. In fact, in 2019, shrinkage accounted for an average rate of two percent of inventory, calculated at retail, costing the industry a record $62 billion. Remotely Manage Retail Locations.

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Retail’s Last-Mile Challenge

Retail TouchPoints

More than one-third of retailers say they are now heavily investing in flexible commerce platforms, where they might use their brick-and-mortar locations as fast-delivery warehouses in competition with the likes of Amazon, IDC says. But many retailers are seeing opportunities in using those locations as micro-fulfillment centers.