As a retailer selling in multiple channels, it can be challenging to manage your operations and maintain data accuracy across your tech stack.
As a retailer selling in multiple channels, it can be challenging to manage your operations and maintain data accuracy across your tech stack.
Lightspeed Onsite is “retiring.” If you're a Lightspeed Onsite user, that's a polite way of saying that you’ve got another business challenge. After the last year of uncertainty, you’re probably thinking this is terrible timing.
Without the right setup, retailers quickly run into problems keeping accurate and available inventory across all sales channels (i. e. multi-channel inventory management.)
Today, customers shop across multiple channels: in-store, on your site using tablets and phones, and on Facebook, Amazon and eBay. This simplicity and choice on the customer side has become second-nature, but it means huge operational challenges on the retailer’s side.
As a retailer, you’ve probably heard a lot about omnichannel commerce over the past few years, and one of the key topics in this field is the rise of Buy Online, Pickup in Store (BOPIS).
Brick-and-mortar retail was supposed to be dead. But while many legacy retailers have had a rough go of it, modern retailers, including boutiques, aren’t just surviving. They’re finding ways to thrive. Research shows that for every company shuttering its stores, more than five other brands are opening new stores to fill that space.
Today’s retailers can’t survive without at least some elements of omnichannel retail at work in their stores. This is especially true for businesses operating multiple store locations.
It can be tough to separate fast-burning fads from meaningful trends that deserve your attention. But while “phygital retail” might sound like a punchy buzzword invented by marketers, it accurately represents a new—and better—way to build a retail business.
Millennials aren’t kids anymore. The majority have entered the workforce, built careers, and pursued milestones such as marriage, home ownership, and starting a family. As a result, today’s millennials are a major force in retail, accounting for 30 percent of all retail sales in the United States.
Imagine a customer named Mary walks by your retail store on her way to work. She doesn’t have time to stop and shop, but a jacket in your storefront window catches her eye.