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New merchandise offering boosts The Reject Shop’s top line

Inside Retail

Meanwhile, general merchandise sales were down, with planned lower average selling prices largely offset by strong unit volume growth. Like many Australian retailers, The Reject Shop is facing some near-term margin pressure from higher shrinkage and rising costs. EBIT for the half was $19.4 million, down 16.1 per cent year on year.

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

Retail TouchPoints

The demise of 99 Cents Only points to a larger weakness in the dollar-store category, Brad Thomas, Equity Research Analyst at KeyBanc Capital Markets told Yahoo Finance , pointing to Dollar Tree ’s plans to close nearly 1,000 locations over the next several years.

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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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John Lewis redundancies are paving way for ‘better quality jobs’, says director

Retail Gazette

John Lewis Partnership’s operations director has said the business is creating “better quality jobs”, despite plans to reduce its headcount by 11,000 in the next five years. Simcock said headsets being worn by staff in some Waitrose stores was helping to increase customer metrics, reduce shrinkage and help employees “feel safer”.

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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. The software uses AI to help a retailer plan the introduction of new stock into a store and manage the pricing levels across its shelf life.

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The Future of Ecommerce Demands a Better Understanding of Online Consumer Journeys

Retail TouchPoints

That lens could include category sales share, unit volume/share, percent of ad sales versus total sales, percentage of ecom sales versus total sales, Total Advertising Cost of Sale ( TACoS) and competitor growth/shrinkage, which are all viable KPIs with varying levels of available measurement. It means we still have much to learn.

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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. The challenges retailers face within areas of high crime rates is staff safety.

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