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This book provides a contemporary theoretical insight into the fashion and luxury industry, addressing potential gray areas within the literature. The authors analyze the luxury and fashion industry using multiple perspectives, allowing for a critical comprehensive overview of the phenomenon across diverse streams. The book provides insight into fashion and luxury retailing in the context of both online and brick and mortar retailers based on a variety of market scenarios. It deciphers the rationale of customer behavioral and decision making in online and offline luxury and fashion purchasing contexts. It provides an overview of the challenges that the industry faces with the advent of the evolving omni-channel environment. The multiple theoretical and practical nuances of the fashion and luxury industry are presented. In this sense, the book is a fundamental reference point for the students and academics. This book will be of interest to practitioners in the fashion and luxury retailing sectors. Also, many policy makers will find the conceptual and exploratory insight of this book relevant to their organizational and retailing policies. The new knowledge that is produced in this book is a ground breaker in the fashion and luxury literature. It offers insight from both theoretical and practical perspectives from both retailer and customer perspectives.

Omni-Channel Retail and the Supply Chain The days of going to the local department store to buy a television, view the options available, and make a purchase now seem "quaint." The emergence of the internet, smartphones, social media, and other technologies has opened a world of new options for consumers (and businesses) to review, research, and buy online with an ever-increasing array of delivery options. The emergence of e-commerce has resulted in what is commonly known today as "omni-channel" marketing, in which customers engage with companies in a variety of ways, including in a physical store or online via websites and mobile apps. This process puts the supply chain "front and center," as consumers are increasingly demanding and browsing, buying, and returning goods through various channels, not just the traditional "brick and mortar" way. To accomplish this with high levels of service while remaining profitable requires real-time visibility of inventory across the supply chain and a single view of consumers as they continuously move from one channel to another. While this is a boon to consumers, it has made the already complex global supply chain even more challenging to manage. On top of that, the 2020 Covid19 pandemic has accelerated this omni-channel retail trend, as consumers need even more ways to order and additional options for last-mile delivery, such as curbside pickup. Covid19 has exposed a lack of flexibility and readiness, resulting in shortages of everything from toilet paper and meats to personal protective equipment (PPE) and ventilators. It has been a real-life example of the "bullwhip effect," where variability at the consumer end of the supply chain results in increased variability as one goes upstream towards distributors, manufacturers, and suppliers. This results in shortages, misallocations, and increased costs. No longer can a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer of consumer products just "fill the pipeline" and wait for orders to come in. Now, they must anticipate various purchases and delivery items, while at the same time minimizing costs. To do this is no easy task, requiring a Lean, agile, and responsive supply chain. Until now, there was no existing "playbook" for organizations to navigate their way through this new world. This book describes the impact of omni-channel marketing on the supply chain and logistics functions, and is intended to help management meet the needs of not only today’s ever-changing world but to anticipate what may be required in the future to achieve superior customer service, profitability, and a competitive advantage.

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“In Omni-Channel Retailing, Ken Wong has captured the essential technologies and tools that we use everyday to provide our customers with the products they want, through the channel that best serves their needs.” -David Markwell, Chief Technology and Analytics Officer, Loblaw Companies Ltd. “Ken Wong has crafted a formidable yet highly approachable guide that every retail business, large, medium and small, should devour. Retailers who want to do more than survive will find Omni-Channel Retailing an indispensable roadmap to winning and keeping customers.” -David Agnew, President, Seneca College “Dr. Ken Wong provides an outlook that is current to today’s Retail industry. His contemporary insights provide relevance to all those interested in learning more about Omni-Channel Retailing.” -Dr. Seung Hwan (Mark) Lee, Director, Professor, Retail Management, TRSM, Ryerson University “There is no space for ‘silos’ or functional borders within the organization. All have to be integrated to deliver the best and consistent customer experience. Omni-Channel Retailing explores this strategy, provides proven examples of success, and delivers practical advice to help today’s retailers.” -Perry Oosting, Former CEO, Clergerie Paris The COVID-19 pandemic is rewriting the rules of retail. A growing number of shoppers now rely on same-day delivery, curbside pickup, in-home/in-car delivery, and AI-powered drive-thru to get their goods. To accommodate such a paradigm shift, retailers must undertake significant changes in their business models to become digitally enabled and data-driven. Omni-Channel Retailing is written to help retailers and retail students understand the importance of delivering a seamless, cohesive, and contextual customer experience throughout the shopping journey. This book addresses today’s retailers’ challenges and gives new ideas for implementation. Relevant activities and discussion topics are included to help readers master the concepts.

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Amelie Winters investigates omni-channel strategies in retail and provides new insights and important implications for researchers and managers based on theoretical considerations and empirical analyses. She shows that retailer should focus on the interdependencies between major purchase channels and emphasizes the need to identify supportive stimuli and cues, such as integration services and online- and omni-channel-specific marketing instruments, to support such transfers and improve behavioral outcomes at the retailer and channel level.