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The Retail Landscape Continues to Evolve — Data Departments Need to Keep Pace

Retail TouchPoints

Discounts of 60% or more can be problematic unless they are at the very end of your markdown season, as customers start to perceive them as artificial and question if your prices mean anything at all. Fabrizio Fantini, PhD is VP of Product Strategy at ToolsGroup , a supply chain planning and optimization firm.

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15 Things to Do RIGHT NOW to Get Your Store Ready for Holiday 2020

Retail Adventures

Making the Golden Quarter work for you requires careful planning that, but even if you haven’t laid the groundwork for a big finish throughout the year, you can still reap the benefits of a solid holiday season. This year consider the following in your Golden Quarter planning: 1. Both of these retailers offer good plans.

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How Smaller Assortments, Lower Inventory Levels Can Maximize Post-COVID Success

Retail TouchPoints

By creating narrower product assortments and limiting inventory levels — especially for product shipments headed to brick-and-mortar stores —merchants would gain the ability to react more quickly to changing consumer trends, and even potentially reduce their need for markdowns. Richard Maicki.

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How Halara uses machine learning to make just the right amount of activewear

Inside Retail

Halara is a fast-growing athleisure and lifestyle brand founded in October 2020 by Joyce Zhang, a technologist who previously led algorithmic projects at tech-centered companies like Microsoft and Hulu. Hirata sat down with Inside Retail to discuss the brand’s growth strategy and its upcoming plans for building a physical in-store presence.

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7 Price Planning Tips to Maximize Retail Profits (2020)

Retalon

Price planning is one of the most difficult (and often misunderstood) elements of retailing strategies. But emulating successful retailers in price planning isn’t enough. Standard price planning strategies (competition pricing, cost-plus, high-low, EDLP, etc.) What does this mean for price planning?

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Your Store has Reopened, Now What?

Retail Adventures

We will still have a Black Friday and Holiday 2020 and you have to be prepared. Plan In-Store Events & Promotions: You have brick and mortar stores, online retailers, TV, catalogs, and more coming at you from all sides, all vying for the customers’ attention. Plan each event, buy featured product, and get your team involved.

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More recessions lessons from Greenlit Brands, Camilla, Super Retail

Inside Retail

We spoke with customers, watched them shop and planned accordingly. With liquidity being key, we knew that if the product was not selling now, it would not sell in November, being summer, so we had to take the markdowns and be ruthless. Equally, keeping all financial stakeholders informed and on side with plans. Cash is king.