Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

I’m an avid runner so naturally I’ve made this analogy, and it’s a great one to describe to retailers who are mired in the minutiae of pricing — especially as the market fluctuates in year two of the pandemic while Amazon makes a different move to any SKU multiple times a day and the supply chain is riddled with hiccups in every link of the chain.

Retailing Pricing 246

Retailing Pricing Markdowns Accounting Outdoor 246

Wiser

MARCH 14, 2025

Additionally, they oversee promotional strategies, ensuring that discounts and marketing initiatives align with both retailer objectives and supplier funding. They need a structured, data-driven approach that accounts for competitive pricing, product performance, and promotional effectiveness across retailers.

Management 78

Management Inventory Turnover Promotions Markdowns 78

Retalon

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In todays fast-paced market, relying on gut instincts and spreadsheet-based planning alone is like using a flip phone in a smartphone erait just doesnt cut it anymore. learn more… Fewer Markdowns Minimize profit loss from excess inventory. Curious to see how AI can improve your numbers? Request an AI-Impact assessment.

Planning 41

Planning Markdowns Marketing Consumer 41

Inside Retail

MAY 30, 2024

Through a combination of advanced predictive analytics to precisely tailor its product offerings and a successful leveraging of its social media community, the company has carved out a small but steadily growing niche in the highly competitive athleisure market. In fact, that’s a large part of what drew Hirata to the brand.

Markdowns 130

Markdowns Wholesale Planning Consumer 130

Inside Retail

AUGUST 25, 2022

Some of your variable expenses like marketing come under scrutiny. One of the concerns analysts have about the current market is that some retail brands are getting over-inventoried, or overstocked. Unless the product is truly classic and can be packed away for another year or season, you need to be bold and take the markdowns now.

Drop-Shipping 130

Drop-Shipping Markdowns Management Shipping 130

Inside Retail

JANUARY 30, 2024

Inventory is the second largest controllable expense and retailers are reporting back an improvement in markdown reduction losses of as much as 50 per cent through using the software to manage planning. This is particularly helpful for someone bringing a new product to market, where there is no sales history.”

Loss Prevention 147

Loss Prevention Shrinkage Inventory Management Markdowns 147

Wiser

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Six-X pricing: the full cost of the item (sales, advertising, distribution, and administration expense of direct marketing) multiplied by six. The product is offered at this price consistently and it can help win market share. The particular formula you will follow is: (Price or Average of Prices) x (1 + your markup or markdown rate).

Advertising 148

Advertising Markdowns Marketing Promotions 148

365 Retail

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Unify by DemandTec includes four initial applications, available together as a platform or separately: 1) DemandTec Autonomous Pricing, 2) DemandTec Autonomous Promotions, 3) DemandTec Autonomous Markdowns, and 4) DemandTec Autonomous Collaboration.

Markdowns 52

Markdowns Promotions Retailing Pricing Accounting 52

Wiser

JANUARY 12, 2021

Doubling the wholesale cost allowed retailers to take into account fixed and variable costs, such as coupons, theft, returns, and other common margin-eaters while still turning a profit. We often see this strategy used in luxury markets or when a product is highly differentiated from its competitive offerings.

Wholesale 78

Wholesale Shrinkage Markdowns Returns 78

Wiser

AUGUST 3, 2017

Value and mid-market retailers tend to have giant red signs that take over their windows, websites, and marketing emails. One of the key metrics we track at Quad is called the Market Price Index (MPI). If shoppers thought that your markdowns were just a gimmick, they wouldn’t pay them any attention.

Promotions 99

Promotions Markdowns Marketing Checkout 99

Retail Minded

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Orders need to be fulfilled in real-time, taking into account last-minute changes from the customer while keeping a close eye on cut-off times. With the increasing demand for speed that shifting consumers expectations, batch driven processes are only part of the solution. Fulfilment processes in the warehouse need to be flexible. Among them?

Fulfillment 111

Fulfillment Markdowns Specialty Retailers Consumer 111

Wiser

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Additionally, the market trend insights allow you to make smart, real-time decisions to outperform competitors. The goal of competitive price analysis is to compare where your price sits in comparison to the market. Competitive price analysis gives you insights on which products are priced higher but are still winning in the market.

Markdowns 47

Markdowns Promotions Marketing Accounting 47

Retalon

MARCH 7, 2022

Retail CIOs can use this special edition to advise the business areas on how to cut through market. Retail Today considered nearly 7,000 nominees for these awards. “Retail CIO Radar 2022 helps CIOs and Retail business leaders to stay on top of the latest innovations. .

Markdowns 41

Markdowns Inventory Management Accounting Promotions 41

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. Not only are these retailers fast to market with their trendy designs they are also skilled eCommerce operators. Like Sears and Neiman Marcus, Forever 21 simply did not react to changes in the market fast enough.

Fast Fashion 98

Fast Fashion Fashion Apparel Department Stores 98

Retalon

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Often resulting in inventory distortion that lead to lost sales and costly markdowns. These retailers are therefore unable to account the demand uplift resulting from the promotion. It proactively accounts for short life cycles, dynamic seasonality, vendor lead times, and dozens of other factors that influence demand.

Fashion 41

Fashion Markdowns Promotions Accounting 41

M19 Retail

APRIL 14, 2021

The multiplication of choices induced by this model translates into a drop in productivity of the physical store space and an increase in markdowns at the end of the season to sell unsold products. E-commerce pure players can offer hundreds of products in a single product category.

Point of Sale 52

Point of Sale Management Markdowns Accounting 52

Retalon

JANUARY 17, 2022

Granted, many retailers have developed pricing strategies that account for multiple factors affecting product price, such as; Production and distribution costs Competitor pricing Revenue goals. On top of having visibility across the business, retailers also need to account for all internal and external factors that affect pricing and demand.

Retailing Pricing 41

Retailing Pricing Markdowns Promotions Accounting 41

Retalon

JUNE 10, 2020

may cover generic approaches to managing and optimizing price for any given product, but they don’t account for the most critical variables that determine your pricing success. Retailers who don’t account for these considerations often struggle with profitability. ultimately determine how profitable your business is.

Planning 41

Planning Markdowns Promotions Accounting 41

Retalon

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Challenges in Demand Forecasting Leading to Lost Market Share. Retailers who rely on approximated demand disappoint customers, bleed profits, and lose market share to more tuned-in competitors. Unfortunately, approximations often lead to lost sales, drastic markdowns, and unfulfilled potential. Reduced markdowns.

Markdowns 41

Markdowns Inventory Turnover Fulfillment Accounting 41

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.

Planning 41

Planning Markdowns Merchant Services Payment Services 41

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.

Planning 41

Planning Markdowns Merchant Services Payment Services 41

Mass Relators

JUNE 21, 2021

Same-store sales of consumables, which account for more than 75% of the top line, fell during the quarter, but, as Vasos noted, key nonconsumable categories of apparel, seasonal and home products all registered growth. The post Dollar General’s first quarter results beat analysts’ forecast appeared first on MMR: Mass Market Retailers.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services Markdowns Apparel Accounting 52

Retalon

MARCH 2, 2021

Destination resorts that run gift shops must account for occupation rates in their hotels as well as weather. . Retalon automatically suggests the optimal size distribution for all fashion products to make sure they are not left with fringe sizes at the end of the season significantly reducing markdowns. For instance, . Crawl-Walk-Run.

Fashion 41

Fashion Markdowns Promotions Accounting 41

M19 Retail

MARCH 17, 2021

Mi9 is committed to extending our market-leading merchandise management platform with modern, mobile capabilities that help store associates access and maintain real-time inventory levels,” said Neil Moses, Mi9 Retail CEO. About Mi9 Retail.

Inventory Management 40

Inventory Management Management Markdowns Planning 40

Retalon

APRIL 26, 2021

Product clustering (or grouping) is an increasingly common technique that leading retailers use to manage their planning, inventory, pricing, promotions, and markdowns. Most commonly, retailers use geographical clusters to better account for demographics, distribution cost, climate, and other relevant factors to their business.

Markdowns 41

Markdowns Promotions Inventory Management Accounting 41

Retalon

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The consequences of out-of-stocks are severe, from losing profits to losing customers, and inevitably market share. 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. This means they can’t markdown their products without devaluing the brand.

Markdowns 41

Markdowns Fast Fashion Consumer Accessories 41

Retalon

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The consequences of out-of-stocks are severe, from losing profits to losing customers, and inevitably market share. 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. This means they can’t markdown their products without devaluing the brand.

Markdowns 41

Markdowns Fast Fashion Consumer Accessories 41

Retalon

JULY 28, 2021

Simply put, seasonal demand forecasting is a type of advanced demand forecasting that takes into account the many complex variables of predicting the performance of seasonal products (non-evergreen products). Retailers either lose sales and customer satisfaction due to inventory shortages or face drastic and expensive markdowns.

Markdowns 41

Markdowns Inventory Management Accounting Management 41

Retalon

JULY 28, 2021

Simply put, seasonal demand forecasting is a type of advanced demand forecasting that takes into account the many complex variables of predicting the performance of seasonal products (non-evergreen products). Retailers either lose sales and customer satisfaction due to inventory shortages or face drastic and expensive markdowns.

Markdowns 41

Markdowns Inventory Management Accounting Management 41

Retalon

JANUARY 20, 2014

Retalon has helped businesses plan their operations, optimize prices and markdowns, and ensure efficiency in supply chain and inventory management processes. Incorporated in 2002, Retalon’s main goal is to bring accuracy for retail businesses by predicting future market conditions. About Retalon.

Markdowns 32

Markdowns Inventory Management Accounting Promotions 32

Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The problem stems from business intelligence, buyer intuition, or company targets lacking the ability to account for all factors that affect demand. Retailers run costly markdowns to clear out overstocks, and out of stock merchandise leads to lost sales. connecting marketing with merchandising). Key Takeaways.

Markdowns 32

Markdowns Inventory Management Promotions Accounting 32

Retalon

APRIL 27, 2021

Traditionally, retailers have treated forecasting, planning, pricing, inventory, and promotions (marketing) as completely separate domains, often with competing mandates. Promotions can increase foot traffic and sales of market basket items, while simultaneously cannibalizing sales from a variety of other SKUs.

Fulfillment 41

Fulfillment Markdowns Promotions Returns 41

Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The problem stems from business intelligence, buyer intuition, or company targets lacking the ability to account for all factors that affect demand. Retailers run costly markdowns to clear out overstocks, and out of stock merchandise leads to lost sales. connecting marketing with merchandising). Key Takeaways.

Markdowns 32

Markdowns Inventory Management Promotions Accounting 32

Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The problem stems from business intelligence, buyer intuition, or company targets lacking the ability to account for all factors that affect demand. Retailers run costly markdowns to clear out overstocks, and out of stock merchandise leads to lost sales. connecting marketing with merchandising). Key Takeaways.

Markdowns 32

Markdowns Inventory Management Promotions Accounting 32

Retalon

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The pressure for transformation is coming from all sides, as consumers expect a more streamlined shopping experience, workers expect flexibility and modernity, and competitors like Amazon win more market share using cutting edge tech as their advantage. Why invest in pricing and promotions?

Fulfillment 41

Fulfillment Markdowns Promotions Shipping 41

Retalon

DECEMBER 17, 2021

This creates internal competition between products instead of pulling customers, revenue and market share from the retail businesses’ external competitors. The overstocks of cannibalized products taking up shelf space force retailers into unplanned promotions and end-of-season markdowns to clear the excess inventory. Seasonality.

Markdowns 41

Markdowns Promotions Consumer Fashion 41

Retalon

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

This dramatically increases revenue from transfers, lowers inventory costs and increases sales while helping you avoid unnecessary markdowns and subsequent allocations. Moreover, having a fully integrated end-to-end predictive analytics solution means that promotions will always take the supply chain part of your business into account.

Markdowns 32

Markdowns Promotions Customer Experience Fulfillment 32