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Coping With Omicron Disruption Across the World

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Retailers and their suppliers face a string of problems. With sick staff unable to work, suppliers are struggling to maintain output – and even when their products are ready, staff shortages and travel restrictions make shipping them challenging. Planning – have you made clear plans for alleviating the worst of the disruption?

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How the Supply Chain Disruption Is Sparking Holiday Risk & Resilience

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The scarcity of productive ports, people, and products has led to the following supply chain threats and retail responses. Shipping delays. Trans-Pacific cargo ships face bottlenecks in major ports like Los Angeles, and these shipping delays threaten access to merchandise. Retail Dive. Source: SEI. Reuters.

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Why Tackling Food Waste Is Good for Business

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No shopper would ever walk into a supermarket, buy three bags of food, and then throw one of them in the dustbin. But there is some positive news: many countries now have plans for food waste reduction, setting clear targets and laying out roadmaps to achieve them. Governmental sustainability efforts. For example, last fall in the U.K.

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The Top 15 Ways to Find New Customers in Retail

Indigo 9 Digital

Speaking about this Bob Nelson, Senior Vice President of Financial Planning and Investor Relations at Costco said : Costco generates “very little money” on the combo deal, but “we get so much more mileage out of it than we would by raising the price to $1.60 Costco’s hotdog combo is actually the same price it was in 1985.

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Alibaba’s Strategy, 6 Things to Consider

Indigo 9 Digital

If you are curious about Alibaba’s plan for staying on top then consider these six elements of its strategy. Create a seamless link between online and offline retail. While eCommerce represents nearly 50% of retail sales in China today that hasn’t always been the case. “In Create a true omni-channel retail chain.

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10 Ways to Succeed in Retail

Indigo 9 Digital

As big box retailers like Walmart, who are often located in off-mall locations, continue to grow so does the traffic in those locations. With this in mind several retailers are shifting their store network to off mall locations. Macy’s is also part of this group with plans to open more off mall locations. “We

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Understanding ESG and How to Build On It 

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As climate change and retail’s war on plastic make global headlines, these companies are taking action to protect the environment. Amazon uses machine learning and computer vision to optimize the amount of packaging it uses for the products it ships. Iceland announces commitment to be the UK’s first plastic neutral supermarket.