Brian D. Gabbert

Apparel brands focused on long-term duty savings need to get their HTS classifications right from the start. Your general rate is the baseline everything else is built on. Get it wrong and you're underpaying or overpaying on every single shipment, and either way that's a big compliance risk. Watch the full Classification Guide for Apparel Brands webinar for more insights: https://lnkd.in/gEk6KmGY

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Spring is supposed to be the busy season for home improvement. This year, it delivered a familiar mixed bag for the industry's biggest player. The Home Depot reported its results for the quarter ending May 3, and the headline for anyone watching the hardware and home improvement space is this: the company beat profit expectations but came up short on the sales metric that analysts watch most closely. Read our latest blog to learn more: https://lnkd.in/eQququyA

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For warehouse and operations teams, it's no secret that excess inventory isn’t just clutter– it’s time, money, and space being eaten away. In Women in Retail (WiR), our CEO Disney Petit, MBA breaks down how retailers are rethinking returns and overstock: not as waste, but as a chance to streamline ops and make an impact. This isn’t just about ESG– it’s about smarter logistics. Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/gwN8dQcy

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“Why Dead Stock is the Silent Margin Killer” In apparel & footwear retail, dead stock is the silent killer of margins. Here’s why it hurts more than we realize: ❌ Capital gets locked in unsold inventory ❌ Warehouses fill up with slow-moving SKUs ❌ Heavy markdowns eat away at profit ❌ Sustainability takes a hit when excess stock ends up as waste Most retailers treat dead stock as “just part of the business.” But it doesn’t have to be. With the right ERP, we’ve seen clients reduce dead stock by 20–30% in just a year — simply by improving demand forecasting, size/color ratio planning, and real-time visibility.

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AE Regional Distribution Co., a subsidiary of apparel company American Eagle Outfitters, is closing its Devens fulfillment facility, laying off 103 employees in the process.

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🔍 🚨 BREAKING: Kohl's Shares Soar as Department Store Chain Highlights Turnaround Momentum The stock of department-store operator Kohl's witnessed a substantial surge, advancing by 35 percent, following an announcement where the retailer communicated an improved business outlook. This not...📖 read more at 👉 https://lnkd.in/gRFSPmbC 📰 Published on November 27, 2025 by Aartie on Aakash News and Media Syndicate #News #BreakingNews #TechNews #AI #TrendingNow #LinkedInNews #AakashNewsAgency #ANMS

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Training alone doesn’t move the needle in retail. What does? Standardized training + real-time communication. When every store is trained the same way and stays connected retailers unlock: ✔️ Consistent customer service across locations ✔️ Faster onboarding and skill adoption ✔️ Aligned execution from HQ to the floor ✔️ Better frontline confidence and performance With x-hoppers, standardized training doesn’t stop at onboarding — it lives on the sales floor, in real time. Because consistency is what customers remember. Visit us at NRF, booth #2219 to learn more Secure your slot before Christmas ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d-2MN9cu National Retail Federation #xhoppers #tradeshow #nrf2026 #stafftraining

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Retail Daily Minute Home Depot Beats Q1, Unframe Hits $100M TCV & Gap Names a New Banana Republic CEO In today's fast-paced retail world, staying informed is crucial. Omni Talk's Retail Daily Minute provides the insights you need to stay ahead. Learn how Home Depot, Unframe, and Gap Inc. are shaping the market. • Home Depot outperformed Wall Street's Q1 expectations with $41.77 billion in sales. • Despite a decline in comparable transactions, Home Depot maintains its full-year guidance. • Shoppers are delaying big-ticket home improvement purchases. • Unframe achieved a $100 million total contract value in 12 months. • An impressive 400% net revenue retention highlights Unframe's growth. • Unframe secured an additional $50 million in funding led by Highland Europe. • This funding underscores the market's demand for production-ready AI. • Gap Inc. appointed Donald Kohler as the new CEO of Banana Republic. • Kohler brings experience from Calvin Klein and PVH Americas. Quick Action Items: 1. Monitor Home Depot's full-year performance for investment insights. 2. Explore opportunities in AI-driven business models like Unframe. 3. Follow leadership changes at Gap Inc. for potential strategic shifts. As retail giants adapt, how will your strategy evolve to leverage these shifts? From Omni Talk Retail Full Episode https://lnkd.in/g99hXh85

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August Retail Sales Are Up. Here’s Why It’s the Moment to Double Down on EAS. When sales accelerate, more units move through your doors, more merchandise sits on the floor, and more associates are stretched to meet demand. That combination reliably increases opportunistic theft especially in small, high margin items (beauty, accessories, electronics peripherals) and busy zones near entrances/exits. With tariffs lifting input costs and wage pressure still elevated in many markets, every basis point of shrink now cuts deeper into profitability https://lnkd.in/ekWnJWJj

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Tony often reflects on a lesson that has stayed with him throughout his long career in retail operations. One of the most influential leaders Tony worked with used to say: “Make the complex simple and the simple compelling.” It’s a principle that continues to shape how Tony approaches leadership and execution. Across years of operational leadership, Tony has seen how quickly complexity can creep in unclear roles, over engineered strategies and messaging that loses its impact. And with that complexity comes friction. The shift happens when leaders do the hard work of simplifying what matters. Not by cutting corners but by bringing discipline, clarity, and focus. Whether it’s defining a team’s role, aligning around strategy, or sharpening how a business shows up to its customers, the outcome is the same clarity drives action and action drives results. As Tony puts it, simple doesn’t mean simplistic it means disciplined. And in environments where execution matters most, that discipline is often the difference between momentum and stagnation. At Horizon Shift Australia, this mindset sits at the core of how we help businesses move from capable to scalable. #scalable #leadership #simple #strategy #business #execution Michael Flanderka Jason Banks Benjamin Corbin Grant Galvin George Latter

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Retail organizations rarely fail overnight. They slow down first. Decisions take longer. Alignment becomes harder. Execution loses momentum. Not because teams aren’t capable but because clarity disappears. And when momentum fades, competitors don’t wait. The real advantage in retail isn’t just insight. It’s maintaining the momentum to act on it faster than everyone else. Maxnet Technologies – Navigating complexity. Delivering clarity. #RetailLeadership #BusinessMomentum #EnterpriseData #DigitalTransformation #RetailStrategy #MaxnetTechnologies

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Ever worked toward a compliance deadline… and then realized your label supplier isn’t fully DPP-ready?  We are hearing this more often across apparel and footwear industry. Maxim is here to help on how the DPP actually comes together — from data capture at source to product-level connectivity.  Swipe through to see how it works in practice. #MaximGroup #DPP #DigitalProductPassport #RFID #Sustainability #Apparel #SupplyChain

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The Shrink Story No One Talks About: Vendor-Related Loss Not all shrink happens inside your store. Short shipments, vendor miscounts, and receiving errors quietly drain profits — and too often, department managers take the blame for losses they didn’t cause. Vendor-related shrink is real, and the best defense is data. Structured audits and accurate receiving records protect your department when questions come up during vendor negotiations. A few ways to reduce vendor-related loss: • Verify deliveries by count, not assumption. • Document discrepancies immediately. • Schedule periodic audits to confirm vendor accuracy. Shrink isn’t always internal — but accountability should be. Accurate records protect both your numbers and your reputation.

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In 2012, JCPenney’s CEO tried to "fix" retail with a perfectly logical plan: one simple, everyday low price. No coupons. No games. No frantic sales. The result? Sales plummeted by 25% and they lost nearly a billion dollars. Why? Because he was selling logic when his customers were buying a feeling. In the B2B world, your prospects are no different. They don't just want a solution; they want: 📌 The thrill of winning. 📌 A sense of power over their budget and process. 📌 The comfort of established routines 🎧 Listen to the full Money Monday episode on Spotify: https://hubs.li/Q03Z7qNs0 #SalesGravy #sellmore #SalesLeadership #ConsumerPsychology #B2BSales

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The Home Depot touted that its investments in delivery speeds, driven by leveraging both distribution and stores to move products to customers, are paying off. https://lnkd.in/gYi64ujs #supplychain #retailsupplychain #delivery

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