Inside Retail

AUGUST 25, 2022

Laura Inman, non-executive director at Super Retail Group and chair of Melbourne Fashion Festival. Non-executive director, Super Retail Group , and Chair, Melbourne Fashion Festival. All too often, especially if there are supply chain challenges, retailers will be reluctant to take the deep markdowns required to clear the stock.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In addition to the rise of fast fashion and seasonal items, trend-driven products have further shortened product life cycles. Unlike traditional methods, which rely heavily on static historical data, predictive analytics uses advanced modeling to account for current and future trends, external variables, and market shifts.

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Retalon

MARCH 2, 2021

Business-Specific Analytics & AI for Fashion Retailers. But let’s be honest, what do fast food restaurants, automotive, luxury fashion, and an online pharmacy have in common? Destination resorts that run gift shops must account for occupation rates in their hotels as well as weather. . Not that much. For instance, .

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 11, 2024

to £288.6m, which it attributed to the improved profitability to its sales performance, tight control of markdown, effective cost management, and positive movements in input prices. to £1.15bn due to price increases, however EBITDA plunged 37.2% to £124.1m and operating profit before exceptionals spiralled almost 80% to £18.7m.

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

New ultra fast fashion competitors like ASOS and Boohoo entered the market and did what Forever 21 did but better. After Forever 21 opened its first store in 1984 in the United States fast fashion started to gain in popularity. In the 2000s the internet met fast fashion, and a slew of new competitors began to emerge.

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365 Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Californian lifestyle fashion brand, Pacsun , doubled its ship completes by better anticipating online demand and intelligently leveraging its stores as ecommerce fulfilment centres, partnering with antuit.ai , a leader in AI-powered SaaS solutions for consumer products and retail insights and now part of Zebra Technologies.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 11, 2024

The fashion and home retailer bounced back into the black when it was acquired by a group of investors at the start of last year, as it made a pre-tax profit of £255,500 in the 52 weeks to 25 February 2023, up from a loss of £2,500 the year before. in its second quarter, with sales up 0.8% in its second quarter, with sales up 0.8%

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Retalon

MAY 10, 2024

At home, the gift budget may need to be significantly higher in December than in January to account for holidays. If you plan to mark down products at a certain stage of the product lifecycle, such as the last trimester of the season, you need to adjust the numbers to account for markdowns.

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Retalon

MAY 10, 2024

At home, the gift budget may need to be significantly higher in December than in January to account for holidays. If you plan to mark down products at a certain stage of the product lifecycle, such as the last trimester of the season, you need to adjust the numbers to account for markdowns.

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Retalon

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Whether it’s fast fashion or high-end brands, at the end of the day, the goal of a business is to maximize shareholder value. The direct and indirect damages of lost sales are so great that retailers prefer to markdown unsold inventory, or even get rid of it at cost. How do retailers get into this mess? Incentives A current U.S.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Whether it’s fast fashion or high-end brands, at the end of the day, the goal of a business is to maximize shareholder value. The direct and indirect damages of lost sales are so great that retailers prefer to markdown unsold inventory, or even get rid of it at cost. How do retailers get into this mess? Brand Image. Incentives.

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Retalon

APRIL 14, 2021

Account for changing consumer behaviour and preferences. Consumers’ tastes in fashion change with the seasons and where they shop changes over the course of years. A fashion retailer, for example, with shelf space for 17 SKUs of jeans can optimize the combination of brands, colors, and styles that are best for each location.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Typically unexpected, this situation can be extremely detrimental for retailers and also has the potential to create additional issues such as: Inventory Imbalances Overstocks Markdowns. For example, fashion retailers often see products with trending styles and colours pull sales from last season’s top sellers. Promotional uplift.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

If your predictions are inaccurate (or your assortment plan fails to reflect consumer demand) — you’ll be facing out-of-stocks, markdowns, and unhappy customers all year. Their only option may be high-level planning that doesn’t take individual stores, demographics, and constraints into account. This is easier said than done.

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Retail Prophet

JULY 18, 2022

Most companies today, according to Thorbeck, are accounting only for the front-end advantage that low cost might afford them. Indeed, in a world where consumer preference can shift on a single influential TikTok video, fashion-based products may be out of fashion even before they reach the rack. Image Credit: Hip To Save).

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Retalon

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The decision came after similar announcements from other fashion retail competitors such as Gucci, DKNY, Versace, Burberry and Columbia Sportswear. The decision to drop fur, or any other category/sub-category of product, isn’t an easy one for retailers, especially those in high-end fashion retailing. Learn more at retalon.com.

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Retalon

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The decision came after similar announcements from other fashion retail competitors such as Gucci, DKNY, Versace, Burberry and Columbia Sportswear. The decision to drop fur, or any other category/sub-category of product, isn’t an easy one for retailers, especially those in high-end fashion retailing. Learn more at retalon.com.

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Retalon

OCTOBER 18, 2013

It’s been almost a joke what has happened in retail business for years where retailers will declare a promotion or announce a markdown, 20 percent off, and the stores will not have any additional inventory to support it. Another company in fashion that specifically plans to have terminal stock at the end of the season.

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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

This means that optimizing your fulfillment across all channels requires building a holistic process that takes your specific company policies and labour considerations into account, while still finding the cheapest and fastest method for fulfilling omnichannel orders (while keeping your customers happy) — for every order. Read More.

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Retalon

AUGUST 2, 2019

Prices (markdowns, promotions, competitor prices, etc.). Because retailers can’t afford to lose money because inventory purchases didn’t account for future promotions, business leaders imposed processes to keep everyone on the same page. POS data (sales, returns, etc.). Inventory levels (store, warehouse, distribution centers).

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In order to understand how to take full advantage of this new technology, we will first explain what demand forecasting actually is, the most common methods of demand forecasting in retail, key constraints that need to be accounted for, and modern examples of accurate demand forecasting. What is Demand Forecasting?

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Retalon

MARCH 4, 2019

Traditional inventory management is fragmented silo work that doesn’t take other processes into account. Things are done retroactively or not at all, and any changes made tend to be at a category level, not a SKU level, leading to lost sales and unnecessary markdowns. Inventory Management.

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Retalon

AUGUST 16, 2019

Consider high-end fashion labels like Louis Vuitton that simply refuse to undercut premium pricing or even offer any markdowns. The upside is, loyal customers may be more favorable toward product recommendations that take their personal preferences into account. This is the level of exclusivity their customers expect and prefer.

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Retalon

AUGUST 16, 2019

Consider high-end fashion labels like Louis Vuitton that simply refuse to undercut premium pricing or even offer any markdowns. The upside is, loyal customers may be more favorable toward product recommendations that take their personal preferences into account. This is the level of exclusivity their customers expect and prefer.

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