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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. It’s not simply that goods are in short supply. So too are logistics. How to cope.

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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.

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Supermarkets See Superinflation in 2022

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Logistics costs add to the pressure, with the world’s shipping and freight companies also trying to re-orient themselves in the wake of the pandemic. In Australia, retailer Coles has warned of the effects of inflation there too. And the economic landscape is not the only pressure on supermarket prices. In the U.K.,

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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. Yet collectively, that is exactly what we are doing: one- third of all the food produced for human consumption is wasted. Governmental sustainability efforts.

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4 Elements of Amazon’s Strategy to Watch

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Then Amazon comes onto the scene and shows the retail industry there are other ways to make money including by having a lucrative cloud business or through advertising sales. That’s why if you are a food and beverage retailer, stores matter a lot. Amazon Fresh supermarkets are small, between 2 5,000 sq. to 45,000 sq.

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5 Examples of the Store of the Future

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For more visions of what the future holds consider how these five retailers are reimagining the in-store shopping experience. The Chinese eCommerce giant made a move into physical retail in 2016 by opening a chain of futuristic supermarkets called Hema or Freshippo in English. Fast shipping. Do you like this content?

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Tesco’s Strategy for Gaining Market Share

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Shipping speeds are at the forefront of competition in the retail sector. If you do subscribe to our retail trends newsletter to get the latest retail insights & trends delivered to your inbox. Retail media. Amazon continues to show retailers how to make money. Fast delivery.