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The Home Depot launches $500M cost-savings plan

Retail Dive

Savings will focus on fixed operating expenses like supply chain holding capacity amid a decline in sales.

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Maximizing Profitability: How to Improve 4 Key Areas of the CPG Product Lifecycle

Retail TouchPoints

Consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies are obsessed with two things: maximizing revenue and minimizing operational expenses. Enhanced demand planning. Demand planning is the process that happens after demand forecasting, when you determine exactly how much demand can be planned for.

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Rent the Runway to Cut Corporate Staff by 24% After Q2 Active Subscriptions Drop

Retail TouchPoints

The restructuring plan we announced today underscores our commitment to building RTR into a business that is highly profitable, has strong margins, and is self-funding,” said Jennifer Hyman, CEO and Co-founder of Rent the Runway in a statement. million , it expects to save $25 million to $27 million in operating expenses during FY 2023. “We

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H&M, DoorDash Eliminate a Combined 2,750 Jobs as Retail Layoffs Continue

Retail TouchPoints

“Most of our investments are paying off, and while we’ve always been disciplined in how we have managed our business and operational metrics, we were not as rigorous as we should have been in managing our team growth,” said Tony Xu, CEO and Co-founder of DoorDash in a publicly shared message to employees. That’s on me.

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Price of Stamps Likely Going Up in 2023

Small Biz Trends

Sending domestic cards in the mail will also get more expensive. This plan would call for the second stamp price increase in the last 6 months. Operational Costs. The USPS had seen its operating expenses continue to rise, forcing it to explore increasing the current stamp prices. from $1.40. Postal Service.

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Milkrun seeks investment as a perfect economic storm hits instant delivery

Inside Retail

Voly, SEND , and Quicko are no longer, after operating expenses collided with rising input costs and a lack of investor appetite. Such plans could be hampered by the existence of Woolworths’ existing Metro60 offering , in which the supermarket chain uses Uber services to deliver groceries within a 60-minute window.

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Destination XL Taps $17.5 Million Loan to Fuel Liquidity After Difficult Fiscal 2020

Retail TouchPoints

Destination XL, which operates the DXL Big + Tall and Casual Male XL brands and ecommerce sites including dxl.com, has pivoted its operations to recover from the pandemic. Efforts include adjusting its product assortment, negotiating relief in occupancy costs and restructuring its operating expenses.