Inside Retail

MAY 30, 2024

As Hirata remarked, “Often you can’t, that’s why brands do markdowns like discounts or sample sales, or even why inventory sometimes goes straight to the landfill.” In addition, Hirata said the company eventually plans to open permanent bricks-and-mortar locations. In fact, that’s a large part of what drew Hirata to the brand.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 15, 2022

Store grading – retail stores all come in different sizes and locations with varying customer demands: fashionability, location and price for example. Reduce markdown activity through planning width (number of options) and depth (units per option) of range. This is all managed by the store grading. More on this later.

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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. learn more… Fewer Markdowns Minimize profit loss from excess inventory. Learn more… Rebalancing Inventory Identify and relocate slow-moving items to high-demand locations for increased sales.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 20, 2023

Similarly, AI can analyse social media images and fashion magazines to identify emerging trends, helping retailers stay ahead of the curve and stock products that will interest customers. The Louis Vuitton mobile app, for example, enables users to take photos of a Louis Vuitton bag and then shows them how and where to purchase it.

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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? What sizes should you offer for each product at each location? The one constant in fashion retailing is that there are no constants.

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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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Indigo 9 Digital

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Farfetch claims it is the largest digital marketplace for luxury fashion. With more pricing control brands can offer more merchandise at full price, avoiding markdowns which are thought to negatively impact a luxury brand’s image. In 2015 Farfetch purchased Browns, a luxury fashion boutique in London.

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Retail Assist

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Allocation in retail refers to the process of distributing stock from suppliers, through warehouses, to various retail locations. These systems use data-driven insights, such as shopper behaviour and sales trends, to allocate stock more effectively across locations. What is Allocation in Retail?

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Retalon

MAY 10, 2024

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. Previous commitments In the fashion industry, for instance, it’s common to plan and commit to certain expenditures well in advance.

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Retalon

MAY 10, 2024

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. Previous commitments In the fashion industry, for instance, it’s common to plan and commit to certain expenditures well in advance.

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Retalon

APRIL 14, 2021

It needs to be relevant to the current (and upcoming trends), as well as sensitive to the unique geo0demographics of your channels and locations. Don’t use the same product assortment across all locations. Clustering retail locations by common attributes let you tailor the assortment more closely.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

As a business grows and introduces more products, locations, and channels, the complexity of managing merchandise planning increases exponentially. Spreadsheets, which work for small-scale operations, become cumbersome and unreliable for multi-location retailers managing thousands of SKUs.

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Retalon

MAY 25, 2020

This strategy of incremental markdowns is also used as a product is nearing the end of its season. For example fashion retailers may start incrementally lowering the price of winter jackets as winter ends and spring begins — especially if they happened to overstock on inventory.

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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.

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M19 Retail

MARCH 22, 2021

By incorporating weather information into their forecasts, retailers can realize annual forecast accuracy improvements of up to 30 percent for specific products, time periods, and locations. carrying costs, markdowns, shrink, etc.). “The About Mi9 Retail.

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Retalon

JULY 15, 2019

Not only do overstock situations force retailers to markdown inventory at the end of a season at slim-to-no profit margins, but it also takes up physical space in stores warehouses, accruing carrying costs, and ties up extra cash that could be used towards advancing business goals. 2. Sizes left over. How much safety stock is ideal?

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Retalon

JUNE 11, 2021

According to a McKinsey report , which looked at the fashion industry specifically, researchers project that the “rise in volumes could push carbon emissions to around 2.7 . • Outrageous Amounts Of Packaging: Since more orders are fragmented and sent separately, there is a huge amount of plastic waste an average consumer deals with.

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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

direct-to-consumer e-commerce orders), retailers now have to worry about fulfilling orders across multiple complex channels and B&M locations. Instead of turning every B&M store into a fulfillment node, some retailers have realized massive cost savings by centralizing fulfillment to a select few locations.

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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. If you are a small retailer, or have an incredibly standardized retailing model across all locations (demographics, store size and layout, etc.),

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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.

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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.

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Retalon

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Another thing that retailers are trying to do today is to monitor inventory in different locations. The reality today is they can do much more by balancing inventory between locations by satisfying online requests of customers directly from different locations and that basically allows them to use inventory much more efficient.

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Retail Prophet

JULY 18, 2022

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. The result is slow turns, deep markdowns, write-offs, and heaps of dead stock in warehouses, much of which eventually becomes landfill.

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Retalon

MARCH 4, 2019

It then calculates the demand of every individual SKU across each location and/or channel and then proactively makes profitable recommendations. Every time a number is changed, the entire plan must be re-calibrated to consolidate the number and make sure it works across all locations, products etc.

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Retalon

AUGUST 16, 2019

Delivering an experience that feels personalized to shoppers, while also… Creating a consistent experience across retail locations and channels so that customer can enjoy the comfortable familiarity of your brand. Any business that caters to a consumer marketplace deals with 2 common challenges.

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Retalon

AUGUST 16, 2019

In any business undertaking that caters to a consumer marketplace, there are two major challenges – delivering an experience that feels personalized to shoppers, while simultaneously creating a consistent experience across retail locations and channels so that customer can enjoy the comfortable familiarity of your brand.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Demand varies based on the store’s location, the time of year, and the impact of other SKUs in the assortment. Different store types : Medium to large retailers often have multiple store types, for examples express/convenience, pop-up stores, mall locations, standalone showrooms, and outlet centers.

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Retail Adventures

JANUARY 1, 2024

This is especially important if your store is located in an area where people tend to walk, and areas populated with restaurants and bars. Don’t wait too long to take a markdown. Now, potential customers can easily get in touch or check your website even when your store isn’t open for business. Light your window displays at night.

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