What Is Safety Stock? Definition, Benefits, & Why It's Important
Not much is more frustrating than running out of a product customers expect you to have.
Not much is more frustrating than running out of a product customers expect you to have.
Running a pet store already comes with enough to manage. Between inventory, employees, customers, and everything else that happens day to day, marketing can easily fall to the bottom of the list.
Two hundred fifty years ago, there were no barcode scanners, loyalty apps, or online orders waiting to be picked up curbside. There weren't even cash registers.
Ask a group of pet retailers about inventory management, and you'll hear a lot of the same frustrations. Products that don't move. Products that move too quickly. Suppliers that don't deliver on ...
In our recent survey of independent pet retailers, we found that 75% have complaints about their current POS but aren't actively looking to replace it.
Stockouts are rarely what they look like on the surface. The inventory existed. The demand was there. The product just wasn't in the right place at the right time — and no one caught it early enough.
As pet retailers grow across locations and channels, keeping systems aligned becomes increasingly important. Inventory, eCommerce, POS, loyalty, and fulfillment all need to work from the same ...
Most retailers switch to unified commerce because their systems have become harder to manage across day-to-day operations. Inventory may not always align across channels, reporting can take longer ...
Running a multi-location retail business is very different from running a single store. Once you have multiple locations, things get messy quickly. Inventory ends up in the wrong place, one store ...