Challenges in Retail 2025: YRC Insights

This communiqué from YRC, a retail and eCommerce consulting firm, outlines four key challenges online and offline retailers may face in 2025.

In this communiqué, the team of retail management consultants of retail and eCommerce consulting firm - YourRetailCoach (YRC) highlights four typical challenges that online and offline retailers are expected to face in 2025.

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Offline Retailers to Continue To Face Competition from Online Players

ECommerce offers many such advantages to customers that are not present by default in traditional brick-and-mortar retailing ( https://www.yourretailcoach.in/digital-retail/brick-mortar/ ). Online orders can be placed 24/7 and the order fulfilment process nearly begins in real-time. The problem of space constraint is subdued in eCommerce which means customers have a wider range of options to choose from. On the contrary, physical retail stores must have active stock on the floor or in backstage stocking facilities to be able to offer and sell. ECommerce platforms also allow customers to make much more informed decisions in choosing and buying products by way of making an extensive range of product-related information to customers. This includes product descriptions, prices, alternate brands, and available packaging sizes. Even when working with retail management consulting firms, retailers should have a clear understanding of the features, information, and UX they want to incorporate into their eCommerce websites/apps.

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Creating Brand Resonance to Remain Tough

Producing the intended brand resonance has always been a challenge in retail, and now, also in eCommerce. Some of the reasons for this are competition, market saturation, frequently changing consumer behaviour, the impact of social media on span of attention and creating a long-lasting impression, and budgetary constraints.

A handful of very large businesses like MNCs may have the resourcefulness to push their brand images with mighty and extensive promotional campaigns. But that is not true for all businesses and also, it becomes difficult to achieve any convincing ROI from such massive investments into advertising and promotions.

The element of sameness in offerings is another roadblock in building a brand resonance. Sometimes it is challenging even for veteran retail consulting companies to deliver the targeted results - owing partly to gaps in strategies and partly to issues in implementation.

Managing Inventory - This One Never Gets Easy

A core task in retail inventory management is keeping track of goods in detail and with accuracy. No product variant can go accounted for. With inventory in different stages of its journey including storage, measuring goods is never an easy mountain to conquer.

Making accurate demand projections for the entire assortment is the next big challenge. After inventory or goods are procured, there is no turning back. It arrives and it gets stocked and all this procurement is taking place based on demand projections made earlier. If the demand projections turn out to be off the place, working capital gets stuck in the form of unsold goods.

As one of the emerging retail consulting firms in the global picture, YRC stresses that quality planning and operational precision help keep these and many other universal challenges at bay faced by retail brands and businesses from all over the world.

Trying to Achieve Operational Excellence Without SOPs

Retail operations management ( https://www.yourretailcoach.in/retail-operations-management/ ) demands careful planning and the use of tight tools and technologies. Every operational detail is important in executing business processes. Planning for what is already known as required to be done is immensely beneficial to avoid mismatches between desired and actual results or performance.

An important principle of operations management is to be process-driven. Not being process-driven is a major deterrent for retail brands and businesses in achieving operational excellence. With no or poor process mapping, employees may try to fill the void with what they believe to be right according to their sincere judgements. Such judgements need not necessarily align with the bigger business or functional objectives.

With more than 10 years of experience in retail consulting services, YRC maintains that the key to achieving operational excellence in retail lies in developing SOPs for retail operations ( https://www.yourretailcoach.in/sop-standard-operating-procedures-for-retail-store-management/ ), finding the best-fit retail IT solutions, and ensuring SOP-IT integration.

Rupal Nikhil Agarwal
YourRetailCoach
+91 98604 26700
consult@mindamend.net

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