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Black Friday 2025: 6 Trends That Separated Retail Winners from Everyone Else

Black Friday 2025: 6 Trends That Separated Retail Winners from Everyone Else

Posted by FieldStack, December 04, 2025
Black Friday 2025 pushed retailers harder than any year in recent memory. Between surging in-store traffic, heightened customer expectations, and the pressure to keep shelves stocked in real time, this season revealed a clear pattern: retailers who communicated well, stayed ...

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Inside Look: Why Retailers Waste So Much Time on Manual Processes

Retailers rarely realize how much time they lose to manual work — until they finally step away from it. Tasks like cycle counting, flipping through old scan books, cleaning up bad inventory data, or ...

Inventory Management Software That Works in Real Time — Why It Matters

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Holiday Retail Checklist: Prep Your Store for Peak Season Success

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3 Telltale Signs Your Retail System Isn’t Truly Unified Software

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How Retailers Can Harness the Link Between Inventory Accuracy and Customer Loyalty

Ask any retailer what keeps their business alive, and the answer is almost always the same: loyal customers. The folks who swing by every week, grab what they need, and tell their friends why they ...

How Unified Commerce Improves Inventory Accuracy Across Channels

If you’ve ever had a customer call asking if you have an item in stock — and you weren’t completely sure — you know the pain of inaccurate inventory. It’s a common problem. The culprit usually isn’t ...

Unified Commerce vs Composable Commerce: What’s Better for Retailers?

Retail tech’s gotten complicated. If you’re a mid-sized or regional retailer, you’ve probably seen the pitch deck parade by now. “Composable.” “Unified.” “Headless.” Every vendor’s got a new term, ...

Why Mid-Sized Pet Retailers Need a Unified Commerce Platform to Compete

If you’re a regional pet retailer with a growing footprint, you’ve likely felt the tension between scaling operations and maintaining the customer experience that sets you apart. Maybe your store ...