Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In addition to this timing variation, over 60% of shoppers plan to do their browsing online, yet 85% expect to buy at least one product in a store. In this kind of shopping environment, how should retailers align their promotions and markdowns for the greatest impact?

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Retail Adventures

JANUARY 20, 2021

Just because you fell in love with that item when you saw it at the last trade show you attended it doesn’t guarantee it will sell once it hits your sales floor. And when it doesn’t you need a plan to get rid of it so you can buy fabric that will sell. When done on time, the first markdown you take is always the cheapest markdown.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 17, 2024

will deploy the Base Price and Markdown pricing solutions from Revionics , an Aptos Company , to help scale optimized pricing across its 2,200 stores and ecommerce site. The scale and sophistication of Revionics, along with the ability to price at a localized level, have been extremely strategic for our business.” Tractor Supply Co.

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Wiser

AUGUST 15, 2017

In a perfect retail world, markdowns wouldn’t be necessary and every item would sell at full price within weeks of being in store. This is where markdowns come in handy, as the demand for a product diminishes, sales can encourage shoppers to purchase an item they wouldn’t have considered buying at full price.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2024

The deployment is designed to reduce the risk of markdowns and stock shortages while also limiting the impact of underperforming products. First Insight’s platform gives us fast, actionable insights into our customers’ preferences, which has already provided significant value.”

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Inside Retail

JUNE 1, 2021

TheDOM.com (DOM stands for Digital Off-Price Mall) will offer discounted designer fashion, streetwear and activewear from more than 90 leading Australian and international brands when it goes live in the second half of June, and there are plans to expand into additional categories, such as homewares, electronics and travel, in the future. “We

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Retail Focus

JUNE 3, 2021

As other sectors, including travel and hospitality, experienced online commerce surges, the retail market shifted at a more leisurely pace. Fortunately, there is well-established, proven science-based technology that enables retailers to offer carefully crafted prices, promotions and markdowns in online as well as brick-and-mortar channels.

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Markdowns Promotions Shopping Planning 200

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 15, 2021

More and more, that means rethinking product development and expanding their sizing and assortment planning to represent a wider range of sizes and body shapes. But it’s still true that only a small fraction of the fashion retail market has put tactical plans into place to support this significant consumer base. billion in the U.S.

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Consumer Merchant Services Markdowns Fulfillment 283

Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

An increase in volatility in any one of these variables would be troublesome for a retailer, but when all six are in play it makes for a perfect planning storm. The planners in turn use data and adopt planning methodologies of varying complexity to move stock at optimum price and margin. .

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Optimize Seasonal Promotion Plans Seasonal promotions are a staple in retail, but not all promotions are created equal. This strategic approach to promotion planning can help retailers avoid unnecessary discounting while still driving sales during peak periods.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Under the new market delivery model, large items are shipped directly from DCs to the customer, reducing the number of “touches” for each order and freeing up space at brick-and-mortar stores. This helps us to not only capture sales, but also mitigates markdown risk because we avoid stranding product unnecessarily in our stores.

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Fulfillment Markdowns Store Operations Customer Experience 243

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 18, 2023

As part of the new multiyear agreement — which builds upon a partnership that started in 2016 — Academy will use the Revionics Base Price and Markdown solutions to not only optimize its pricing strategy but better manage inventory levels throughout the product lifecycle.

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Outdoor Markdowns Apparel Fulfillment 169

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It was at that point that putting the technology and operations in place to fulfill from an increasingly complex supply chain network embarked upon its next frontier. The digital channel typically had one or more dedicated facilities, which ironically were often planned and managed like an individual additional brick-and-mortar location.

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Fulfillment Drop-Shipping Shipping Markdowns 227

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2021

With seasonal items in particular, missing the mark on pricing, even if only a little, often results in excess stock on hand that has very weak demand, necessitating markdowns. Michaud launched his career with 16 formative years at IBM in a variety of sales, marketing and solution executive roles. [i]

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Markdowns Promotions Retailing Pricing Marketing 212

Inside Retail

MARCH 15, 2022

With customer demands coming in hotter and the stakes higher than ever, assortment planning is the key to profit growth. Here, we help you avoid profit margin mayhem with a considered, data-driven assortment plan. What is assortment planning? Why is assortment planning important? More on this later. Hello, retention!

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

“We created the Ai.Retail platform several years ago [to offer retailers] a repository of capabilities that teams could quickly pull off the shelf as they’re figuring out what to do with all their data,” said Jill Standish, Global Retail Lead at Accenture in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “So

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Inside Retail

APRIL 17, 2023

From essentials – at the supermarket and the petrol pump, in the mortgage and in the power bills – to the not-so-essentials, such as the local café, the fashion boutique, the travel agent and the new car dealer. Retailers ignore this heightened awareness of ‘the value of a dollar’ at their peril.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2023

at its flagship banner and up 5.8% at Family Dollar stores, but even discounters are facing cautious consumer spending and employee pay raises that aren’t expected to pay off for some time. at its flagship banner and up 5.8% Beauty sales were a bright point at both businesses. during Q4, but they were up 0.6%

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Markdowns Operating Expenses Department Stores Planning 262

Inside Retail

JULY 6, 2022

Supply chain disruption may have become a singularly hot topic in retail circles these past years, but a focus on improving supply chain planning and forecasting is far more than just a passing trend. These software solutions identify patterns in demand data from a variety of sources and use them to make accurate decisions at the store level.

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Planning Supply Chain Management Markdowns Management 130

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 8, 2023

The retailer is aiming to eliminate slow-selling items evenly throughout the year rather than making a large push at the end of each season. The decline was primarily driven by clearance markdowns of approximately 750 basis points, according to CFO Jill Timm. in Q4 2022.

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Markdowns Planning Promotions ATS 196

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

At Mejuri, we view data as a strategic asset, especially when it helps us create more compelling customer experiences,” said Majed Masad, COO at Mejuri in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. Retailer Plans to Use Solution Across Multiple Channels.

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Wiser

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Promotions influence shopper behavior , and consumers are conditioned to search for the best deals and prioritize brands and retailers who markdown products more often than the competition. Examples of TPRs include the standard dollars-off markdown, limited-time coupons, contests, rebates, and more. Can You Execute at the Store Level?

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Markdowns Promotions Consumer Planning 147

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 19, 2024

Even worse, these promotions often fail to clear the desired inventory at all. 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.

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Consumer Markdowns Promotions Advertising 284

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2023

The company is looking to pivot Journeys to an off-mall strategy, with 13 locations out of a planned 25 already open. Comparable sales at Journeys plummeted 14% , dragging the company’s overall comparable sales down 5% despite positive results from the Schuh and Johnston & Murphy banners. Genesco’s gross margin was 47.3%

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 3, 2023

Becoming proficient at navigating these obstacles is key to protecting retail profits. As consumers faced higher prices at the gas pump, grocery stores and other places, many cut back on their spending, increasing the competition among retailers. Neil Cohen is Chief Marketing Officer at Kasada. Bad Bots are Siphoning Profits.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Many retailers are worried that they don’t have all the data at their fingertips, like product data, customer data, transactional data, when items sold, on what device and more. Everyone starts somewhere, and it’s OK wherever you are at in your data journey. Begin with what you have and build a plan to fill in the gaps.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 16, 2024

However, like-for-likes at its core UK business fell 3.5%, which it attributed to “exceptionally strong comparatives” last year and poor weather in April and May this year. “We continue to offer our customers exceptional value at a time when household incomes are under pressure.

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Markdowns Planning ATS 110

Inside Retail

JANUARY 31, 2022

“With this next generation of barcodes, there’s a real opportunity to connect with consumers in ways we haven’t before,” explained Richard Jones, chief marketing officer at GS1. At Woolworths, we plan to build on the potential of these barcodes to offer customers valuable information on provenance, quality and sustainability.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

RFID is also being extended for item-level identification as part of future-forward innovation plans, such as the adoption of blockchain for increased transparency. The lack of digitization in the supply chain coupled with unpredictable demand makes inventory management chaotic at best.

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Fulfillment Markdowns Inventory Management Customer Experience 226

Retalon

APRIL 14, 2021

What is a retail markdown strategy? A retail markdown strategy is a plan that describes when and how certain products should go on markdown. Having a markdown strategy is important because, all too often, markdowns are a kneejerk reaction to end-of-life inventories. ” What are markdowns in retail?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 31, 2023

of retail sales, has multiple causes, including inaccurate demand planning, lack of inventory visibility and inadequate staff training. alone at $100 billion. Inventory distortion, which is equivalent to 7.2% The report cited vendor issues as the primary driver of both out-of-stocks and overstocks in 2023, contributing $417.7

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Markdowns Shipping Fulfillment Consumer 215

Inside Retail

AUGUST 26, 2024

LVMH-owned beauty giant Sephora is reportedly carrying out a significant workforce reduction in China, a move aimed at mitigating financial losses in the challenging market. The company plans to lay off approximately 4000 employees, which represents 10 per cent of Sephora China’s total workforce.

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Markdowns Promotions Marketing Consumer 147

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

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. What can retailers do to eliminate or at least minimize these?

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365 Retail

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Cross-Item Effects at Your Fingertips. With the ability to set the guardrails and adjust them for the evolving business at any time, retailers have the confidence that the automated recommendations are in line with their overall financial goals and targets. The holiday season has never been more challenging or difficult to predict.

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Markdowns Promotions Accounting Planning 98

Inside Retail

MAY 30, 2024

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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Markdowns Wholesale Planning Consumer 130

Inside Retail

JANUARY 30, 2024

Retailers worldwide may be facing challenging times right now, but the evolution of technology – including the deployment of AI – is opening the way to dramatic improvements in productivity at all stages of the retail business model. You are optimising the value of that product by discounting at the right time, rather than too early.”

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 8, 2024

We’ve unlocked efficiencies at a time when inflation and input costs are starting to fall, enabling us to pass these savings on directly to our customers – bringing down the prices of new and existing lines of everyday essentials and favourites across all our key categories. “So, for 2024 we want to start the year off differently.

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Markdowns Fashion Planning Management 111