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September 8, 2021 By Jason Wirl

How to Handle Inevitable Disruptions in Grocery

In this short paper, Retail Wire author Jamie Tenser explores several ways the current environment in grocery is causing disruption to things that have been very steady...until COVID. Human labor is scarce, the supply chain is in a state of flux, inflation is creeping in, and shopping trips are … [Read more...] about How to Handle Inevitable Disruptions in Grocery

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December 1, 2019 By Jason Wirl

Humans Matter

A chain of 100 supermarkets executes 3.8 million discrete ordering decisions per night. That’s 1.4 BILLION reordering decisions per year (how exhausting!).Can your hard-working store personnel succeed at this with their existing tools? What are the costs of even a small percentage of misses or … [Read more...] about Humans Matter

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Itasca Grocery Tech

June 12, 2019 By Jason Wirl

Will New Grocery Tech Amplify Your Old OOS Challenges?

New grocery tech has driven overwhelming sentiment and buzz in the first few months of 2019. Much of it centers around the growing abundance of really cool digital and mobile technology for taking orders, fulfilling orders and delivering them to consumers. While shiny new technologies can bring … [Read more...] about Will New Grocery Tech Amplify Your Old OOS Challenges?

Filed Under: Thought Leadership Tagged With: CGO, Edge of Shelf, Frictionless, Grocery, Grocery Technology, inventory, tech, technology

December 12, 2017 By Jason Wirl

Shrinking Shrink with Itasca

Shrink. Almost no one wants to spend time hearing or worrying about this retail reality. Whether it’s from damage, theft (internal or external), spoilage, date-coded product, or bad ordering, shrink is a bane to profit, and it’s not easy to fix. Itasca retailers have a different experience. Think … [Read more...] about Shrinking Shrink with Itasca

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October 20, 2017 By Jason Wirl

Itasca: Enriching the eCommerce Experience

Recognition of the need for understanding inventory levels in a grocer’s supply chain, and especially on-line when an order is being placed, has rapidly become the hot topic-of-the-day. And for good reason…it’s vitally important to retailers’ success in a world where they are relative newcomers – … [Read more...] about Itasca: Enriching the eCommerce Experience

Filed Under: Download, Gold Paper, Progressive Grocer, Study, Thought Leadership Tagged With: C-Core Consulting, inventory, Perpetual Inventory, PI, Progressive Grocer, RSR, Whole Foods

June 22, 2017 By Jason Wirl

Delivering on the Promise

THE BLOCKBUSTER announcement in Summer of 2017 from Amazon.com and Whole Foods Market has analysts and the business media buzzing about a potential new era in online grocery ordering. Amid the hype, it seems to us at that an important fundamental point about On-Shelf Availability is being … [Read more...] about Delivering on the Promise

Filed Under: Download, Gold Paper, Thought Leadership Tagged With: Click & Collect, On-Shelf Availability, online, Whole Foods

September 9, 2016 By Jason Wirl

Downstream It’s a Forecast; Upstream It’s a Fact

THE HEADLINE FOR THIS COLUMN may seem like a riddle, but it’s intended as a succinct way to characterize the flow of forecasted order quantities up and down the supermarket supply chain. The prevalent method has long been to order product in a consolidated way for use downstream – that is, for … [Read more...] about Downstream It’s a Forecast; Upstream It’s a Fact

Filed Under: Guest Column, Thought Leadership Tagged With: DBSC, demand based, SCO, Smith, Supply Chain

March 14, 2016 By Jason Wirl

Talking DSD at NGA

AT THE VIBRANT National Grocers Association meeting in Las Vegas, attendees heard from a trio of grocery retail experts about the role DSD receiving processes play in loss prevention. In a session entitled, “DSD Receiving & Auditing,” Bob Summers, Director of Loss Prevention, Buehler Food … [Read more...] about Talking DSD at NGA

Filed Under: Events, Thought Leadership Tagged With: DSD, Grocers, NGA

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