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‘People Are Hoarding’: Food Shortages Are The Next Supply Chain Crunch

There’s plenty of food. There just isn’t enough processing and transportation capacity to meet rising demand as the economy revs up.

A Walmart Inc. shopper walks by empty shelves. Photo: Bloomberg.

Three Lessons for Retailers in a Year of Disruption

It’s time that retailers shifted from a reactive to a proactive strategy, one that anticipates and accounts for all future disruptions.

Watch: How Fast Fulfillment Changed Retailing

Sanchoy Das, professor in the Engineering Department of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, explains how “fast fulfillment” has come to dominate e-commerce, to the point where online shoppers expect nothing less.

How Fast Fulfillment Changed Retailing

Fashion Brands Have Gone Quiet on Xinjiang Cotton in Fear of Retaliation

When a fashion industry sustainability group called out China over its treatment of Uyghur Muslims, the idea was to nudge Beijing toward human-rights reforms while cleaning up a troubled corner of the $60 billion global cotton business. Western brands have learned the hard way that things don’t work that way in China.

Cotton ready for harvest. Photo: Bloomberg.

Retailers Expect to Disappoint Holiday Customers, Study Finds

Retailers are trying to maintain a cheery outlook despite looming pressures on the upcoming holiday season, including worker shortages and supply chain disruptions, according to a new report.

A retail employee adjusts a store mannequin. Photo: Bloomberg.

Vietnam’s Factory Crisis Worsens as Migrant Workers Flee

Tens of thousands of factory employees have gone back to their home villages from Vietnam’s southern industrial belt — and millions more are poised to follow — after months-long COVID-19 restrictions recently eased.

A person carries a Nike Inc. branded shopping bag. Photo: Bloomberg.

Investors Fret Supply Chain Woes Could Knock Earnings

Reopening demand and marooned containers are prompting downgrades across analysts estimates for the upcoming earnings season.

A financial analyst at work. Photo: Bloomberg.

Unlocking Opportunity in the Post-Purchase Ecosystem

Understanding customer expectations, improving their experience and implementing the right reverse logistics systems will increase shopper loyalty and prevent profit-margin erosion.

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High Quits Rates, Poaching: U.S. Firms Are Plagued by Turnover

U.S. employers aren’t just having a hard time attracting workers, they’re increasingly struggling to hold onto them.

A Post-it note reads 'I quit!' Photo: ptnimages/ Canva.

Christmas at Risk as Supply Chain ‘Disaster’ Only Gets Worse

It’s the beginning of October, just the start of what the retail world simply calls “peak.” But the industry is already in various forms of panic that usually don’t take hold until the weeks before Christmas.

Labor shortages have stalled trucking across the U.S. Photo: Bloomberg.

Johnson Says Brexit Britain Must Adapt Amid Fuel, Food Shortages

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he won’t fall back on immigration to solve the U.K.’s truck driver shortage, as he presented supply chain troubles that have left supermarket shelves bare and gas stations dry as a “period of adjustment” in the wake of Brexit and the pandemic.

A gas pump reads 'out of use' amid fuel shortages in the U.K. Photo: Bloomberg.

Podcast | Why Supply Chains Are Critical to the Success of Brands

A lot of factors go into the success or failure of consumer brands, but one of them stands out today: the supply chain.

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