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Inside Look: Why Retailers Waste So Much Time on Manual Processes

Inside Look: Why Retailers Waste So Much Time on Manual Processes

Posted by FieldStack, December 02, 2025
Retailers rarely realize how much time they lose to manual work — until they finally step away from it. Tasks like cycle counting, flipping through old scan books, cleaning up bad inventory data, or importing spreadsheets across disconnected systems feel routine, but the ...

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