{"id":17,"date":"2009-01-05T02:51:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T07:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anilchopra.com\/personal\/fresh-retailer%e2%80%99s-dilemma-concludes\/"},"modified":"2010-06-11T07:10:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T12:10:49","slug":"fresh-retailer%e2%80%99s-dilemma-concludes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anilchopra.com\/blog\/business\/fresh-retailer%e2%80%99s-dilemma-concludes\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Retailer\u2019s dilemma concludes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, you can stop the bleeding only when you know where to apply band-aid. With first step taken by capturing data on where all the category is bleeding, balm can be applied to target areas to bring the shrink down.<\/p>\n<p>In corporations quite often it is not possible to even start the healing process\u00a0without getting a\u00a0sign off from bottom to the top. Everyone has to know and acknowledge\u00a0that they own\u00a0part of the problem. When you start delving deeper, you will find that department lime Commercial and IT which apparently look remotely linked with Freshness issue, contributes a lot towards shrinkage.\u00a0(Ask me &#8211; I&#8217;ll tell you how). Only this way it is possible\u00a0to\u00a0crack the issue. Next step would be\u00a0to nominate\u00a0someone who\u00a0is now responsible for freshness or dump\/shrink- end to end &#8211; period. It is also important that this freshness officer reports to the chief executive and is suitably empowered. It is pertinent to note\u00a0here that this freshness executive is bound to ruffle many feathers. Organisations which thrive on polticking and back-biting shall ensure that this freshness officer is moved out of\u00a0scene. So it is important to create safeguards in this regard. The scene now set for implementing and executing the crated agenda\u00a0and thereafter measure and contol the losses. This approach shall sure work than bringing in cold chain and costly technologies. Good luck fresh produce retailers. You still have a long way to go&#8230;. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, you can stop the bleeding only when you know where to apply band-aid. With first step taken by capturing data on where all the category is bleeding, balm can be applied to target areas to bring the shrink down. In corporations quite often it is not possible to even start the healing process\u00a0without getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anilchopra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anilchopra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anilchopra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anilchopra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anilchopra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anilchopra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/anilchopra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anilchopra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anilchopra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anilchopra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}