Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2023

In the fourth quarter, we benefited from our disciplined inventory approach and compelling gift-giving strategy, which allowed us to provide fresh fashion and style at great values for all our customers,” said Jeff Gennette, Chairman and CEO of Macy’s in a statement. “We during Q4, but they were up 0.6% at its flagship banner and up 5.8%

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Inside Retail

MARCH 5, 2025

In a press release, Jean-Marc Bellaiche, Printemps Groupes chief executive officer, stated, “We think we can bring something unique, both to its engaged local consumer base and the strong tourist flows the city welcomes We plan to pioneer a new format of experiential retail in this fast-changing and demanding market.”

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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? This is all managed by the store grading.

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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. Tread carefully because markdowns will bite hard if you misjudge stock weights.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In todays fast-moving retail landscape, outdated assortment planning methods lead to lost revenue, frustrated customers, and inefficient operations. Retailers using AI-based assortment planning have seen a 36% SKU reduction while increasing sales by 1-2% ( McKinsey ). Why Is Assortment Planning in Retail So Challenging?

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 26, 2022

New York fashion designer Lindsay Nicholas started her business seven years ago as a side hustle while working in marketing in Singapore. Here, we chat with Nicholas about what sets the New York fashion scene apart, how her business fared in Covid, and why she’s committed to physical retail. What brought you to Melbourne?

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Retail Wire

MAY 18, 2021

The fashion label is planning to offer additional features include customized patterns and logos over the next year. David Lauren, the company’s chief innovation and branding officer and vice chairman of the board, said that the customized polos will enable the company to reduce waste, limit inventory and cut markdowns on the brand.

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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.

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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 Gazette

JANUARY 8, 2024

The retailer bolstered its online offer last month by adding 10 new third-party fashion brands to its website including Quiz, Yumi and Vanilla with more planned for later this year. rise in sales for the period to £288.6m.

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Inside Retail

MAY 30, 2024

Hirata sat down with Inside Retail to discuss the brand’s growth strategy and its upcoming plans for building a physical in-store presence. 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.” What’s next for Halara?

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 25, 2022

Laura Inman, non-executive director at Super Retail Group and chair of Melbourne Fashion Festival. Non-executive director, Super Retail Group , and Chair, Melbourne Fashion Festival. We spoke with customers, watched them shop and planned accordingly. Equally, keeping all financial stakeholders informed and on side with plans.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In today’s landscape, when a new fashion retail trend latches on, companies need to have the ability to make the right decisions quickly. So, why is advanced analytics so successful and what is the difference between the traditional approach and this new advanced approach to fashion analytics? Fashion Retail’s Unique Challenges.

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Retalon

MAY 10, 2024

If you have ever planned a family budget, you will easily understand Open to Buy (OTB). There are two types of families in household budget planning: those who operate on a tight budget, where planning is essential, and those for whom purchasing what they like at the moment is a priority, with budgeting taking a back seat.

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Retalon

MAY 10, 2024

If you have ever planned a family budget, you will easily understand Open to Buy (OTB). There are two types of families in household budget planning: those who operate on a tight budget, where planning is essential, and those for whom purchasing what they like at the moment is a priority, with budgeting taking a back seat.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

A robust merchandise planning solution powered by AI-driven analytics is now a necessity for retailers looking to optimize inventory, forecast demand accurately, and enhance profitability. The traditional planning solution often resulted in inefficiencies, data silos, and costly errors.

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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. After Forever 21 opened its first store in 1984 in the United States fast fashion started to gain in popularity. In the 2000s the internet met fast fashion, and a slew of new competitors began to emerge.

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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? Run a promotion last year that you don’t plan for this year? The one constant in fashion retailing is that there are no constants.

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Fashion brand AllSaints has reported another record-breaking performance, as profits surge. The retailer said the strong financial performance was driven by a reduction in promotional and markdown activity, as well as a changing sales mix with growth in wholesale, franchise and licensing channels. Operating profit rocketed 40% to £39.9m

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 11, 2024

to £288.6m, which it attributed to the improved profitability to its sales performance, tight control of markdown, effective cost management, and positive movements in input prices. Matalan revealed last October its EBITDA came in at £47.9m in its second quarter, with sales up 0.8%

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Critical Considerations for Retail Assortment Plans. A retailer’s assortment planning process can make or break their selling season (or even their entire fiscal year). But if you manage to predict consumer demand accurately and plan your assortment accordingly — you’ll rake in the profits. What is assortment planning?

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 11, 2024

Matalan’s pandemic cost-cutting efforts returned the business to stable ground ahead of its sale last year, helping to provide a launchpad as it steps up its transformation plans under CEO Jo Whitfield. in its second quarter, with sales up 0.8% Matalan said it will report its full year results for the current trading period in June.

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Retalon

APRIL 14, 2021

Creating a product assortment strategy is necessary for retailers to have a holistic, long-view plan of their business. And it needs to fit into your retail planning process to ensure you’re still hitting your financial and inventory targets. Everything you need to know about product assortment strategy.

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M19 Retail

MARCH 22, 2021

MIAMI, FLORIDA, March 22, 2021 – Mi9 Retail, the number one vendor for tier one retailers (RIS 2021 Software LeaderBoard) that enables them to automate and optimize merchandise management and retail planning is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Planalytics, the leading provider of weather-informed demand analytics and insights.

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Retalon

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Whether it’s fast fashion or high-end brands, at the end of the day, the goal of a business is to maximize shareholder value. 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. How do retailers get into this mess? Incentives A current U.S.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Whether it’s fast fashion or high-end brands, at the end of the day, the goal of a business is to maximize shareholder value. 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. How do retailers get into this mess? Poor Demand Forecasting.

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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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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. 6. Buying and assortment planning.

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Retail Prophet

JULY 18, 2022

In 1956, after almost two decades of planning, McClean’s musings became reality got when he loaded 58 metal containers in Port Newark onto the S.S. 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.

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Retalon

JUNE 11, 2021

While optimizing a retail supply chain for efficiency and reduction of waste requires careful planning and consideration, machine learning and predictive analytics technology have changed the rules of the game. In a 2018 report , Gartner, Inc. The Retail Sustainability Problem. billion metric tons a year by 2030.”

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Retalon

OCTOBER 18, 2013

It’s been almost a joke what has happened in retail business for years where retailers will declare a promotion or announce a markdown, 20 percent off, and the stores will not have any additional inventory to support it. And if you use these numbers to forecast your next year data, you’ll basically plan yourself to be out of stock next year.

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Retalon

MARCH 4, 2019

Modern retailers take advantage of advanced retail predictive analytics planning solutions. With multiple plans, and several levels of planners, plans may go through lots of re-consolidations, merging, and adding up to the “master plan”. This means that changes to plans are very cumbersome. Inventory Management.

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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. Contributed by Adrian Silipo.

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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. Learn more at retalon.com.

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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

Once the rules are in place, the Smart Fulfillment system combines the retailer’s inputted information with available sales histories, current inventories, and planned promotions to forecast demand for walk-in and online sales, as well as how many online sales are likely to be BOPIS (and at which locations). April 26, 2021. Read More.

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Retalon

AUGUST 16, 2019

You can better plan for stocking of inventory at warehouses and retail locations and optimize the fulfillment process for online and mobile orders. Consider high-end fashion labels like Louis Vuitton that simply refuse to undercut premium pricing or even offer any markdowns.

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