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Academy Sports + Outdoors Expands Revionics Partnership to Optimize Customer-Centric Pricing

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Academy Sports + Outdoors will extend its use of Revionics’ pricing intelligence software. Pricing is core to this merchandising strategy—and Revionics’ Base Price solution empowers the retailer to offer prices that present the most value to local communities.

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Backcountry Bolsters Digital CX to Manage Outdoor Recreation Shopping Surge

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Fueled by consumers’ desire for safer, socially-distant-friendly entertainment during the pandemic, the increased interest in outdoor recreation has driven growth for outdoor gear and apparel retailer Backcountry.com.

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A Generational Analysis of Today’s Home Improvement Customers

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These homebound tendencies ignited a fervor for redecorating and DIY home improvement that, by all accounts, is continuing strong into 2022. Using the Resonate Ignite consumer intelligence platform, we recently examined home improvement trends through the lens of three key generational segments. Gen X Homeowners Making Improvements.

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Product Searches Reflect Indoor-Outdoor Split: Headphones, Stationary Bikes and Lipstick Pique Shoppers’ Interest

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So even though shoppers spent plenty of time outdoors, their overall habits still reflect the way they spent most of 2020. The intersection of at-home and outdoors is impacting electronics sales as well, with headphones particularly popular. Stationary Bikes and Robotic Vacuums Benefit From Lingering Pandemic Habits.

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Kroger Launches Temperature-Controlled E-carts to Improve Curbside Experience

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where it experienced an improvement in both the customer and associate experiences. of groceries to reduce the physical strain of picking and auto-braking to improve safety. Each cart has nine compartments to enable segmenting items by temperature and product type and is weatherproofed for outdoor use.

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Walmart Partners With Angi to Expand Assembly and Home Improvement Options

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are doing more home improvement, maintenance and repair work and they are often turning to Walmart to find the tools and materials needed to start those projects,” said Oisin Hanrahan, CEO of Angi in a statement. “Since the start of the pandemic, the home is in focus and people across the U.S.

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Backcountry Harnesses PLM Solution to Improve its Private Label Development Workflow

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Outdoor gear retailer Backcountry has selected Centric Software ’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution for emerging brands, Centric SMB, to help it plan, design and develop products. Backcountry’s private label team is aiming to improve collaboration, reduce data entry errors and create a better workstream flow.