What are the specific challenges of retailing anything at all?

[Trush Jodie]

Retail business has been popular for a long time now. It has been the bridge between bulk sellers and small buyers. What are the specific challenges that a business that retails is bound to face? What do retailers particularly have to deal with?

 

[Kera]

One of the biggest challenges of retailing is supply chain management. Getting to have an efficient supply chain is not easy.

 

[eLdavis]

I think one major challenge they face is managing the constant changes in the customer demand and taste.

 

[Augusta]

Retailers face challenges in managing complex supply chains, ensuring data security, and staying competitive in a rapidly changing market.

 

[Suba]

The most specific challenges for sellers such as choosing the wrong business location, wrong target market, limited capital, lack of skills and experience, etc.

 

[Augusta]

Optimizing inventory levels to meet customer demand while minimizing waste and holding costs is essential.

 

[King Belieal]

One of the challenges that retail businesses face is expiry of products in stock. That would need proper inventory management.

 

[Augusta]

Yes if you are a location with low sales volume you might just be having products that are expiring as nobody is buying them fast.

 

[Springtime]

Some of the challenges of retailers is to manage supply chain, the changing demand and taste of target audience.

 

[King Belieal]

Some of the challenges that retailers face are when a customer needs bulky purchase. It stresses the hell out of us, we need to calculate a whole lot, we need to package items in bits for one person who need plenty.
Keeping the product for a longer time where there are no sells, sometimes the product could expire before being sold out.

 

[Augusta]

Lack of Tech, Infrastructure, and logistics : The Feasibility and adoption of technology are the major challenges faced by Indian retail outlets