How will the results of the US election affect holiday spend or retail in 2021?  Also, what are the top IoT trends, the challenges of the data created by the devices and how to know the best way to ensure HQ, stores, and supply chain have the right data they […]

With the holiday season quickly approaching, it’s more important than ever for retailers to adopt agile store execution and labor operations processes that can help quickly adapt to rapidly changing circumstances while achieving margin, sales, and service goals.  In this session, Greg Buzek, President of IHL Group, and Jennifer Myers, Solutions […]

C-stores are facing many challenges. This session included an economic update on C-Stores from IHL’s Greg Buzek, then Meyer Oil CEO Alan Meyer and NCR VP of Convenience and Fuel Steven O’Toole shared how to make in-store shopping seamless for consumers at your convenience store. Click here to download the […]

Increasing same-store sales are a critical KPI in the retail industry. Yet whether they realize it or not, retailers are losing up to 10.3% of same-store sales due to one simple, yet completely avoidable issue: inventory inaccuracies. From pricing discrepancies to unexpected out of stocks to planogram non-compliance, few issues […]

COVID-19 has radically changed retail. What is changed for good, what is temporary until there is a vaccine. This white paper talks about what has worked and what has not for retail.  Some segments saw rapid growth and tremendous out-of-stocks.  Others are struggling to survive due to government shutdowns and […]

Since the beginning of time, retailers have struggled with having what the customer wants to buy in-stock when they want to buy it. Inventory distortion occurs when a retailer has too many of an item (overstocks) or too few of an item (out-of-stocks). In an overstock situation, the retailer must heavily discount the item […]

As economies reopen, we are starting to get initial data on recoveries around the world and how deep the drop was when things were closed.  As well, what does this mean for technology.  We tackle these issues directly in this webinar. Click picture for the slides.  For complete replay, click […]

Jim Cramer of CNBC said it, but we were first.  For those of you who have followed our economic updates for the last several months we are have been harping on the business inequities that have happened in retail and hospitality due to the pandemic and how this favored large […]

Inventory distortion (out of stocks and overstocks) was already a huge problem in retail with worldwide costs of over $1 Trillion in 2019.  Things were improving coming into 2020 for many parts of the world but small pockets of issues around BOPIS and local delivery exploded when COVID-19 surge buying […]