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The Merchandise Planning balancing act has never been more tippy

Inside Retail

The situation is complicated further by the prospect of rising local inflation, exchange rate gyrations and increasingly erratic weather patterns rendering traditional seasonality models obsolete. For discretionary retailers – fashion, homewares, sporting goods and the like – the balancing act is harder.

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Quadient and Decathlon Reaffirm Partnership on Parcel Lockers

Parcel Pending

Following a tender process, world sporting goods retail leader Decathlon has chosen Quadient to strengthen its omnichannel strategy and offer more delivery options to its customers. Paris, May 3, 2022. Since the adoption of the first Quadient locker solutions in 2015, Decathlon has equipped 62 stores in France with the lockers.

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Couldn’t Attend IRDC 2021? Here’s What You Missed

VMS

LEFT) Brian Solis opens IRDC with a compelling keynote; (ABOVE) VMSD’s Jennifer Acevedo sits down for a fireside chat with Dick’s Sporting Goods’ Toni Roeller; (BOTTOM) Bevan Bloemendaal led a panel discussion on designing healthy spaces. Organizations can break the cycle, he explained, offering strategies for avoiding common pitfalls.

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Announcing: Retail Reborn Season 2

Retail Prophet

Episode 1: We address the redrawing of city life as we examine the new lifestyle patterns that have propelled a seismic shift in urban centres not seen since the industrial revolution, before illuminating the growing importance of the metaverse in retail and the shifting nature of a physical store’s purpose.

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