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RSSCorset Shop Supplies What Its Customers Demand
April 16, 2004
The final link of the Retail Logistics Supply Chain is Floor-Ready Merchandise (FRM). The system works when retailers can receive merchandise and speed it to the sales floor, knowing it's marked to their specifications for style, size, color and price.
At checkout, the item's UPC bar code is scanned to automatically price the item, balance inventory and reorder stock. Items in demand by consumers can be automatically reordered at store level. FRM takes human error and delay out of the equation while it increases productivity and profitability.
Corset Shop, based in Newark, NJ, distributes women's underwear and sleepwear for national retail chains, including its company owned stores under the name Bare Necessities (http://www.barenecessities.com). In 1985, Corset Shop began to field requests from its retail customers to begin UPC item ID marking of its 8 million SKUs.
