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Consumers now demand a unified “always-on, always-open” shopping experience. Retailers, marketplaces, brand owners, manufacturers, solution providers, and other retail industry stakeholders are seeking ways to keep pace and grow. Working collaboratively as members of the GS1 US Apparel and General Merchandise Initiative, they’re defining retail business challenges and opportunities, exploring solutions, and creating adoption plans to evolve their value chain, fulfillment, and business processes.
The GS1 US Apparel and General Merchandise Initiative represents a broad cross-section of industry trading partners. Today more than 100 member companies work together to help industry:
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By joining the Initiative, your organization will take a leading role in helping shape the future of the retail industry and its value chain. Benefits of membership include:
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