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AI in Action: How Retailers are Transforming Demand Forecasting with New Tech

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers are well aware that having too much inventory in the wrong store, or not enough in the right one, affects not just sell-through but labor costs and store operations. These mismatches also create the need for either markdowns or additional shipping costs to get the products to where they are more likely to be sold.

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As the Holidays Approach, it’s Time to Rethink Retail Pricing Methodology…and AI Can Help

Retail TouchPoints

In this kind of shopping environment, how should retailers align their promotions and markdowns for the greatest impact? Keeping in mind as well the need to optimize their supply chain fulfillment to meet consumer delivery expectations while managing parcel carrier costs?

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Is Your Fulfillment Strategy Healthy Enough to Keep Pace with Customer Expectations?

Retail TouchPoints

Checking inventory in a local store but not placing an order? The strong and growing desire for store pickup and store shipment (both same-day delivery and ground) now requires the demand forecasting algorithm to ‘shift’ some of the digital demand away from the DC and toward specific, individual stores in the fleet.

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44% of UK shoppers want best-before date discounts to help cut grocery bills

Retail Focus

With retailers removing best-before dates to reduce food waste, UK consumers still want supermarkets to offer discounts on goods nearing expiry, according to the latest data from Retail Insight , the leading provider of store operations execution software.

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Genesco to Close 100+ Journeys Stores as it Focuses on Off-Mall Locations

Retail TouchPoints

This was attributed to increased markdowns at Journeys offsetting an otherwise normalized promotional environment, which led to improved margins at the other businesses. Genesco’s gross margin was 47.3% in Q1 2024, compared to 48.3% in Q1 2023. This is really a newer initiative for us.

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Dollar General Revises 2023 Outlook Amid Financial Shortfalls  

Retail TouchPoints

billion, largely driven by positive sales contributions from new stores. decrease in same-store sales, which was largely due to a decline in store traffic. Even though the retailer saw growth in the consumables category, sales across home, seasonal and apparel categories fell. drop in operating profit to $692.3

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Google, Accenture Deepen Relationship to Help Retailers Harness and Optimize Their Data

Retail TouchPoints

Google Cloud and Accenture are expanding their strategic partnership with a series of new initiatives to help retailers modernize their businesses and transform store operations. and all of those have a data and analytics element, which is what we’re helping them figure out.”