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Retail, POS Finance and the Quest for ESG

Retail TouchPoints

In addition to the products and services they offer, retailers are reconsidering the environmental and social impacts of their supply chains, employee activity and even which partners they choose to work with in an effort to fulfill a moral obligation to their consumers — especially the younger generation.

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NOT Your Dad’s Supply Chain: 4 Trends Every Retail Exec Should Know for 2024

Retail TouchPoints

In 2024, it won’t be your dad’s supply chain. These four emerging trends elevate the urgency for supply chain execs to move distributed order management (DOM) to the top of their lists. #1: Retailers need additional tools to fully integrate these stores’ back-of-house (BOH) operations into the rest of their supply chain.

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Lightspeed Integrates Retail and Supplier Supply Chain Data for Greater Flexibility

Retail TouchPoints

The fully integrated stock ordering solution aims to improve supply chain management for SMBs by giving them greater strategic inventory visibility. Omnichannel commerce provider Lightspeed has launched the Lightspeed Supplier Network for North American retailers.

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Shopify POS Hardware: What to Get and How to Set It Up

Ecommerce Platforms

However, Shopify also provides the infrastructure you need for running a brick-and-mortar checkout counter with its POS (point of sale) software and hardware. You can combine an online store with the Shopify POS hardware or simply stick with a system for collecting payments from customers in person. What's Shopify POS?

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Preparing Retail Supply Chains for a Post-COVID World

Retail TouchPoints

Many retailers’ supply chains have been hit by the combination of the global pandemic, skyrocketing global logistics costs and the recent dramas in the Suez Canal. What steps do retailers need to take to secure product and supply chains as we move toward a post-COVID world? Demand, Not Supply Chains. Know Where Your Product is.

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The Best POS System for Coffee Shops in 2022

Ecommerce Platforms

The best POS system for coffee shops is a convenient solution for managing transactions, customer data, and inventory tracking in one place. If you’re running a fast-paced coffee shop environment, your POS solution will ensure you can make a profit, organize your team, and even keep track of your supplies as you work.

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How Hot Topic and Lamps Plus Mastered Inventory Management and More

Retail TouchPoints

Smart retailers are realizing that their increasingly complex omnichannel offerings have made strong supply chain management more important than ever. For Hot Topic’s Young Customers, ‘It’s All About Breadth’ At Hot Topic, two factors put additional pressure on an already complicated supply chain. We need to make sure it’s seamless.