{"id":4355,"date":"2025-05-30T12:50:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T10:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elementlogic.net\/au\/?page_id=4355"},"modified":"2025-12-02T10:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:43:57","slug":"black-friday","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.elementlogic.net\/au\/whitepaper\/black-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Ready for Black Friday?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<div style=\"--dekode-hero-dim:0.5; --t2-icon-fill:var(--wp--preset--color--white);\" class=\"alignfull dekode-hero-content-position-center has-media-background wp-block-dekode-hero has-text-color has-white-color\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elementlogic.net\/content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/05\/autostore_efficiency1-1024x422.jpg\" class=\"dekode-hero__image\" alt=\"AutoStore R5 robot\" style=\"--focalpoint: 50% 50%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elementlogic.net\/content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/05\/autostore_efficiency1-1024x422.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.elementlogic.net\/content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/05\/autostore_efficiency1-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elementlogic.net\/content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/05\/autostore_efficiency1-768x317.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.elementlogic.net\/content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/05\/autostore_efficiency1-1536x634.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.elementlogic.net\/content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/05\/autostore_efficiency1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"dekode-hero__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"dekode-hero__container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-was-black-friday-a-success\"><strong>Was Black Friday a success?<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Success starts long before the first order rolls in. 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