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Mining for data can be hard work, but can be very beneficial for online retailers to stay competitive. You can look for competitor prices, but even better, you can look for competitors pricing structures to be able to have an edge against the competition. A useful tool, too, is to do a SWOT analysis to compare yourself to your competition

The world of retail may never be the same, thanks to the internet of things (IoT) and its network of connections linking the physical and digital worlds in an ecosystem of computers, smartphones, stores, vehicles, wearables and more.

How Changing Retail Best Practices Will Advance Workforce Management, Talent Management, Payroll, HR Core and Benefits This report examines how technology-driven changes in retail best practices will redefine the roles of retail workers and affect how they are managed.

Modern retail has long been guided by a powerful premise: the bigger, the better. Retailers, consumers and suppliers all benefited from economies of scale, but over the past 10 to 15 years, the retail store model has evolved. So how can retailers stay ahead in the rapidly changing landscape?

Accelerating change Added to the perfect storm of cost pressures, rising inflation and slowing wage growth could impact consumer confidence and therefore dampen demand. Retailers will also have to contend with ongoing disruption from the next wave of digital technologies and will need to prioritise investment in the technologies that will really add value for…

The top business issue cited by North American retailers is increasing availability without increasing stockholding (67%). The second-largest issue is better collaboration with suppliers.

El AECOC (Asociación de Fabricación y Distribuidores) ha presentado las cifras de ventas online en alimentación en España, las cuales suponen un 1,2% del total, una cifra muy inferior a la del resto de países europeos como el Reino Unido donde alcanza el 5%.

Es necesario incrementar la eficiencia en los procesos logísticos del sector de la alimentación, con el objetivo de aumentar la cuota de mercado y los beneficios. Debido al bajo porcentaje de ventas online, actualmente no resulta rentable la inversión que supone actualizar la estructura para hacer frente al eCommerce.