Retail Critical Issues

Online retailers and their carriers are delivering parcels almost 20% faster than usual, with the average delivery time reducing from 2.1 days to 1.7 days in the last two weeks, according to new internal data released from post-purchase experts parcelLab.

Symphony RetailAI, the provider of integrated AI-enabled marketing, merchandising and supply chain solutions for FMCG retailers and CPG manufacturers, has announced the findings of a new benchmark report, ‘The Retail Supply Chain: Designing New Ways to Satisfy Demand’.

By Peter Lumsden, Ergonomic Solutions.

The advertising slogan ‘Every Little Helps’ is used by one of the UK’s leading supermarket chains and seems to have greater relevance than ever as we collectively fight the battle against the Covid-19 global pandemic.

Ivalua, provider of global spend management cloud solutions, has announced the latest findings of a worldwide study of supply chain, procurement and finance business leaders on Effective Procurement Performance Measurement. The study revealed the challenges procurement teams face when it comes to achieving business objectives and the wide and growing gap in performance between advanced and less mature teams.

Restrictions on movement and trade as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic have led to a significant shift in consumer behavior in Saudi Arabia, with locals increasingly turning to digital channels.

The rise of the open plan office; good for collaboration, but not without its distractions and costs. According to new research by global market research firm IPSOS and high-end audio brand EPOS, 95% of audio end-users and decision makers experience pain points relating to sound that affect their concentration or efficiency at work.

Independent online retailers in the UK are taking, on average, 23% more orders this March than in 2019, according to new data from James and James Fulfilment. Essentials such as health supplements and store cupboard ingredients have seen triple-digit growth in orders between the last week of February and third week of March.

Radware has issued findings from bot research it has conducted this year that show in February 27.7% of traffic on media sites was made up of bad bots and involved automated activity, including scraping. The findings includes detailed graphs of the bot activity and shows a distinct correlations between bad bots and CV-19.

AgeChecked, the leading global provider of secure and anonymised online age verification technology, is reminding businesses taking their operations online of the need to comply with laws on selling age-restricted goods.

Consumer spending within the online retail industry in China declined for the eleventh day in a row on Monday despite claims from the Chinese government that life is getting back to normal in the country after its Covid-19 lockdown.