Tag: retail operations

August 7, 2023

In a retail landscape where margins are slim and competition is fierce, operational efficiency is the invisible engine driving success. The topic of retail operations may not be as sexy as the latest tech or marketing trend, but managing your […]

December 21, 2022

Retailing is a cutthroat business with razor-thin margins and tough competition. You have to find every avenue to increase revenue and cut down costs. The supply chain is a business function that you can optimize to achieve exactly that. It’s […]

October 28, 2022

In a rare turnabout, Amazon’s AWS cloud services unit underperformed its retail operations. Sales in that segment rose 27% year-over-year to $20.5 billion, and operating income fell 9.6% to $5.4 billion. In retail, the company joins rivals in facing embattled […]

April 19, 2021

Returns may be primed for change. Returns have always played a part in retail operations, as companies strive to make them painless in the name of customer service. The pandemic has sped everything up, though, including e-commerce, which heavily contributed […]

December 17, 2019

Amid the thousands of store closures of 2019, the retail industry as a whole has continued growing its sales. Even after a sluggish November, with its all-important shopping holidays, analysts are largely positive on the industry’s prospects going into the […]

June 27, 2018

Amazon began as a bookseller but soon morphed into a mass merchant with a huge assortment, increasingly bolstered through the years by the third-party sellers on its marketplace. For more than a year, over half of the goods sold through […]