by Ness Blackledge | Apr 27, 2026 | Retail, Guides
For most bulk and large-format retailers, the honest answer to ‘are we ready?’ is that the data does not yet exist in the right form, in the right systems, or with the right level of item-level accuracy to meet what is coming. Digital product passport...
by Ness Blackledge | Apr 20, 2026 | Retail
RFID proof of delivery is an idea the pharmaceutical industry has already validated at scale, and one that bulk retail is only now beginning to adopt. Pharmaceutical supply chains do not tolerate ambiguity about where a product is, whose hands it has passed through,...
by Ness Blackledge | Mar 30, 2026 | Retail
In bulk retail, cost pressure rarely comes from one obvious source. It builds gradually across operations through inefficient processes, avoidable errors, and a lack of visibility that forces teams to rely on workarounds. Table of Contents FirstHeadingWhere...
by Ness Blackledge | Mar 24, 2026 | Retail
Bulk retail does not typically lose revenue because demand is weak. It loses revenue because the business cannot always fulfil what it has already sold. Table of Contents FirstHeadingBy the time an order is cancelled, the revenue has already been counted and then...
by Ness Blackledge | Mar 16, 2026 | Retail
GS1 Sunrise 2027 is a global initiative that will change how products are identified and tracked across retail and supply chains. Table of Contents FirstHeadingWhy GS1 Sunrise is more than a barcode changeWhy GS1 Sunrise 2027 is happeningWhat GS1 Sunrise means for...
