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Extended Back-to-School Season Spotlights Need for Tactical Markdowns

Retail TouchPoints

Additionally, shoppers are continuing to buy even after school has started to save on markdown items and stretch their budgets further. Consumers also are allocating more of their BTS budget to apparel and school supplies rather than pricey electronics, although belt-tightening is likely influencing decisions in multiple product categories.

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Navigating AI Adoption: Why the Co-Pilot Approach is the Most Successful  

Retail TouchPoints

Examples can include customer service escalations, product recommendations for high-involvement purchases, new product introductions and other more complicated tasks. These tasks require human judgment, empathy and creativity to navigate effectively, ensuring positive customer experiences and upholding ethical standards.

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As Consumer Demand for Inclusion Rises, Retailers Must Tackle Legacy Issues and Attitudes

Retail TouchPoints

this year alone, representing approximately 21% of the total women’s apparel market. Retailers need to listen to the customers who are demanding representation, or risk walking away from potential profit and alienating a new consumer base.”. billion in the U.S. Inclusion Definitions Expanding Beyond Sizing. Challenge 3: Pricing.

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Sick of hearing about AI? The key is understanding how to make it work for you

Inside Retail

This enables retailers to make data-driven decisions, improve forecasting accuracy, and enhance customer experiences, while also reducing costs and boosting profits. We all know that omnichannel is a challenge to manage against the product and customer objectives of your brand or business.

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How retailers are protecting margins and profits amid economic uncertainty

Inside Retail

We never found that [a sitewide sale] is the right approach in the apparel space because that is giving away margin on good products that people pay good prices for, Pavone explained. Putting older products through markdowns might not necessarily be the trigger [either], as customers want a quality product.

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

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers, particularly those in the apparel, footwear and soft goods verticals, have an opportunity to turn the lemons from COVID-19 into lemonade, according to Keith Jelinek and Richard Maicki, Managing Directors in the Performance Improvement Practice of Berkeley Research Group (BRG).

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Dollar General posts mixed Q1 results

Mass Relators

“We are controlling what we can control and have made significant progress improving our execution on multiple fronts, including on our supply chain recovery efforts and enhancements to the customer experience with our previously announced investment in incremental labor hours. Gross profit as a percentage of net sales was 31.6%