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Let’s Move from Fast Promising to Smart Promising

Retail TouchPoints

At the same time, many retailers are reporting higher and higher shipping costs, which are affecting profits on their balance sheets. As they begin to address these expectations, many retail IT teams are finding that the process is costly and complex.

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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. Doesn’t that sound amazing?!

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The Order Fulfillment Process in 2022 and Beyond

Retalon

Why should retailers care about their Order Fulfillment Process? Order fulfillment may seem like a fairly straightforward process and according to the generic “high-level” definition, it is. In fact, the best order fulfillment processes become sources of revenue, profit, and even customer loyalty.

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Jump Start 2022 Holiday Preparations

Independent Retailer

85 percent of customers will not shop with a retailer again after having had a poor delivery experience. It may only be August, but July’s Amazon Prime Day event proved the holiday shopping season is already here. Consumers will only stop buying gifts when the shipping deadline for Christmas delivery has passed.

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Retail Crisis: Why Mountains Of Excess Inventory And Overselling Is Set To Kill Off Many Promising Businesses

Retail Minded

The never-before-seen surge in online shopping. Stockouts were disastrous for retailers during the pandemic – up by 250% (Adobe, 2021) – and with 37% of consumers saying they’d simply shop elsewhere if they couldn’t find what. Among them, a global supply chain crisis – rife with driver shortages and lengthy shipping.

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Forever 21: 4 Reasons it Failed & Filed for Bankruptcy

Indigo 9 Digital

Shein is vertically integrated allowing it to go from design to shipping in as little as three days. Shein has grown very fast becoming the most downloaded shopping app on iOS and Android in the United States in May of 2021 with Amazon coming in second. If you are shopping at F21 Red you can pick up a camisole for less than $2.00

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The Future of Retail in the New Era of Risk

Retail Prophet

If a single image has come to define the failure of global supply chains amid the Covid-19 crisis it’s that of the Ever Given – one of the world’s largest container ships – seized in a diagonal death grip inside the Suez Canal, heavy with more than twenty thousand units of cargo aboard. Slave laborers load cotton onto waiting ships.