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Are Brick-and-Mortar Stores Just Showrooms for Online Retail Sales? Not Really

The myth of showrooming - the suggestion that tons of shoppers are flooding stores to only use them as a physical showroom as they had always intended to purchase the product at Amazon - lives on. But a survey conducted in late April by Bizrate Insights is helping to add a little clarity. First, showrooming really doesn't happen very often. But more interestingly, when it does, it's more likely to be within the same chain. That's a problem all right, but the name of that problem isn't showrooming. It's internal politics.

Brewing Up Supply Chain Success

Challenge: This rapidly growing domestic brewing company lacked a centralized planning process across all of its breweries further hampered by disjointed supply chain functions. The company was unable to accurately forecast across its 180 products for the 575 wholesalers across its global footprint.

JDA Releases Cloud Optimize Services; Offers Short-Term Consulting

JDA Software Group Inc. has released six JDA Cloud Optimize Services for supply-chain management.

U.S. Retail Import Growth Expected to Slow Significantly During Summer Months

Import volume at the nation's major retail container ports is expected to increase 3.3 percent in May over the same month last year, but growth could trickle to a standstill by the end of the summer, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates.

Cadec Offers Mobile Proof of Delivery on PowerVue Platform

Cadec Global, a provider of fleet-management software and systems, has made DeliveryTracker, its mobile proof-of-delivery application, available on the PowerVue platform.

Procurement Transformation and the Management of Retail Indirect Spends

More retailers today are looking at the way they manage their non-merchandising indirect spends, and procurement transformation is increasingly coming into the conversation.

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International cosmetics brand streamlines Brazilian distribution with Penske Logistics

Challenge: A leading manufacturer of premium cosmetics and beauty products sought a new logistics model to meet its rapidly growing customer base in Brazil while reducing its carbon footprint.

Penske Logistics helps deliver freshness to growing convenience store chain

Challenge: A leading retail convenience store chain desired major improvements in replenishing its stores with fresh food items. The solution needed to facilitate daily collection, staging and delivery of fresh-baked goods and refrigerated foods by truck to every store across a wide geographic area.

Digital Coupon Users Spend 42% More Annually Than Average Shoppers, Survey Says

Digital coupon users spend 42 percent more per year at supermarkets than the average shopper - a differential of $1,029, according to a GfK report, based on more than 120 campaigns run by Coupons.com in 2012. This reflects a 7-percent increase compared to 2011.

War on Waste and Packaging to Target Supermarkets, Retail

There are few issues guaranteed to make environmentalists' blood boil quite like packaging and food waste. From single bananas in plastic wrapping to giant bags of produce that spoil within days, packaging and food waste remain one of the most visible symbols of resource inefficiency and a source of deep frustration for green campaigners and mainstream shoppers alike.

Litigation Suggests Care Needed in Selecting Vendor to Mine Your Customer Data

A new U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) case illustrates how retail chains can get in serious legal troubles when they use third parties to help mine shopper data.

More Retailers Come Clean on Where Their Products Come From

Some retailers are doing what was once unthinkable, handing over information about exactly how, and where, their products were made.

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How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

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Enhancing High-Value Electronics Shipment Security with Tive's Real-Time Tracking

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