Retail has become incredibly complex. This presentation discusses how retail has evolved over the last 40 years and where it is at today.

1. It’s time to embrace the next era of retail. 1

2. Old School: Retail from the last era Back in the 80s Retailers were limited by the basic technology of the time, but it was slow and expensive.

3. Old School: Retail from the last era In the 90s Retailers invested heavily in improved technology that became the foundation of many large systems.

4. Old School: Retail from the last era In the 00s Habits were formed. Despite major advances in predictive and automated systems, retailers continued to add band-aid fixes to the old school technology they were committed to.

5. Today... Retail has changed. 5

6. Today…Retail is incredibly complex

7. Today…Retail is incredibly complex

8. Today…Retail is incredibly complex 500+ stores x 3+ buys or receipts x 10,000+ SKUS =15,000,000+ decisions

9. Today…Retail is incredibly complex Wrong decisions cost retailers millions of dollars every day.

10. So how do you make profitable decisions across your chain? 10

11. How do you keep up with the complexity of new channels? 11

12. How do you use today's intelligence to predict customer behaviors and buying patterns at the local level? 12

13. You need next generation technology. 13

14. new school retail for the next era. 14

17. New School: Retail for the next era Global strategy – Local action Q provides a competitive advantage by understanding the evolving nuances of localization, channels, and retail formats, as well as giving transparency to inventory and profit across channels.

18. New School: Retail for the next era Hyper-responsive Q allows retailers to continuously maintain pace with market shifts, competitive pressure and emerging threats to strategic goals.

19. New School: Retail for the next era Profit-seeking Q is proven to unlock unprecedented value for retailers, contributing at least a 2% sales lift, 5% reduction in inventory and 2% margin contribution in only a few months.

20. New School: Retail for the next era Efficient Q helps retailers do more with less to scale their people, processes and systems, translating data into actionable knowledge and automatically aligning execution to strategic goals.

21. is the answer. 21

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