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Realizing the Potential Business-Specific Analytics in Specialty Retail (2021)

Retalon

Business Specific Analytics and AI for Specialty Retail. The word “retail” gets used interchangeably as if all retailers are all the same. That’s why specialty retail analytics software needs to be flexible and powerful enough to work with unique business cases and considerations. Not that much.

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How to Launch a Marketplace to be the Disruptor, not the Disrupted

Retail TouchPoints

Some retailers launch their own marketplace to become the disruptor instead of the disrupted. Retailers large and small have transformed their businesses with the marketplace business model and technology. Walmart, Target, Home Depot and most big box retailers run their own successful marketplaces.

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The Top 5 E-Commerce Fulfillment Predictions For 2018

RTP blog

Combined with superior tracking technology, in 2018, customers in select markets will be given the opportunity to change delivery instructions and locations (home, office, store, car, locker) on the fly, almost up to the point of delivery itself. Massive retailers like Walmart or Target? Who will they be?

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As ‘Appointment Retailing’ Use Cases Expand, More Brands See Value

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers such as Best Buy and Apple were two of the first to implement the model at scale, showing the value for businesses outside of luxury and specialty retail. Like any new technology investment, retailers need to think critically about the role, and potential value, of appointment setting. 4 Keys to Success.

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Realizing the Potential Business-Specific Analytics in Retail (2021)

Retalon

Let’s take a look at a retailer with many unique business considerations that massively benefited from implementing Retalon’s analytics. The Paper Store is an American gift-shop retailer with more than 80 locations. Unsurprisingly, this is all thanks to a much more accurate and reliable forecast built for specialty retail.

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6 DTC product content logistics challenges only a PIM can fix

Talkoot

Logistics is not just central to war, but to the functioning of civilization; last month’s Suez Canal blockage is estimated to have cost the shipping industry an eye-watering $9.6bn every day as an anxious world- not just supply chain managers- fretted about delayed shipments and goods shortages.

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What Is Inventory in Retail – Everything You Need To Know As a Retail or SMB Owner

Korona

Knowing how much inventory you have in your retail store and how much you need to meet your customers’ needs enables you to determine inventory levels with much greater accuracy. In addition, you save on shipping expenses, logistics, depreciation, and the opportunity cost of not having another product that might sell better.