Category Management

Inventory management is a challenge for all retailers, but it’s particularly fraught for today’s cannabis retailers given the industry’s complex system for managing incoming and outgoing SKUs.

Fred Meyer, a division of The Kroger Co., is updating its home electronics departments after a successful pilot. Learn why the grocer is experiencing roughly 92% sales lift in the new departments.

Party City Holdings is investing to gain more visibility into category spending at its 800-plus company-owned and franchised stores in North America.

Despite the changes that have occurred in 2020, retailers have not reduced expectations for minimizing out-of-stocks and are still willing to cut ties with suppliers unable to fulfill evolving demands.

In our first annual Supply Chain Technology Study, RIS benchmarks the state of the retail supply chain, identifies technologies that are keys to success, and recommends ways retailers can improve their ability to recover quickly from disruption. Benchmark your supply chain tech against the industry's best!

The pandemic has had a profound impact on shopper behavior and retail success, but will it last? One thing will. “Essential” retailing. Find out why.

Months of near-lockdown conditions have kickstarted new retail tech strategies and solutions that grocers are ready to embrace. See which ones have been pushed to the forefront and which are ready to move off the back burner.

Many shoppers experienced break downs in the retail supply chain during the crisis. This exposed a decades-old, slow-to-change system that needs kicking into high gear.

Being able to simulate multiple scenarios, as quickly as possible, will be the key to successfully “resetting” the company to the future economic and consumption state.

view on-demand!   The global pandemic is putting increased demand on grocers and their suppliers as the industry continues to operate under extraordinary circumstances.