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How Woolies is using 2D barcodes to increase sales and transparency

Inside Retail

The same barcode that you use at your point-of-sale can also be scanned on a phone by the consumer so they can access a lot of information about the products they’re buying. At Woolworths, we plan to build on the potential of these barcodes to offer customers valuable information on provenance, quality and sustainability.

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Streamlining Retail Operations With Innovative Tech Solutions

365 Retail

Advanced inventory management software integrates with point-of-sale systems, monitoring every sale and tracking stock levels. Streamlining Checkout and Payments Long checkout lines are a great way to frustrate customers and lose sales. Contactless payments and mobile checkout solutions eliminate this pain point.

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Trade Promotion vs Consumer Promotion: A Comparative Analysis

Wiser

Tactics often include bulk buying discounts, rebates, or incentives like free point of sale displays. Trade spend is employed in trade promotion in several ways: Discounts and Special Offers: Brands often provide markdowns on their products to retailers.

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Health crisis: what impact on supply management in points of sale?

M19 Retail

The health crisis is accelerating the transformation of physical points of sale. The multiplication of choices induced by this model translates into a drop in productivity of the physical store space and an increase in markdowns at the end of the season to sell unsold products.

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Building a Futureproof Omnichannel Retail Strategy in 2023

Retalon

The Shortfalls of Traditional Retail Planning in Today’s Omnichannel Environment Many retailers today still rely heavily on traditional planning approaches that were effective in the past but now have major shortcomings in our omnichannel reality. These technologies are transforming retail planning in powerful ways.

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The Future of Retail in the New Era of Risk

Retail Prophet

In 1956, after almost two decades of planning, McClean’s musings became reality got when he loaded 58 metal containers in Port Newark onto the S.S. The result is slow turns, deep markdowns, write-offs, and heaps of dead stock in warehouses, much of which eventually becomes landfill. A huge saving of time and labor, he thought.