Retail Focus

JUNE 18, 2025

Smart markdowns keep the shelves clean without damaging your brand. Or were you just seduced by a 70% markdown and the words “final hours”? When Promotions Work (And When They Don’t) Promotions can be brilliant when done right. Launching a new product? Offering an exclusive discount to early buyers builds excitement.

Promotions

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

JUNE 9, 2025

Whether you’re selling sneakers, sofa sets, or fine jewelry, carrying too much stock ties up cash, eats up space, and leads to markdowns. Experiment with markdowns, flash sales, or multi-buy offers like BOGO or “Buy 3, Get 1 Free.” A new context can turn a stale item into a must-have.

Inventory Management

Retail Adventures

DECEMBER 1, 2024

MASTER MARKDOWNS Plan now for your post-holiday markdowns. You should also decide now where holiday returns will be processed: at the checkout or at a separate table. Try to save the sale by politely encouraging an exchange first: “I will be happy to hold your item here at the cashwrap while you shop.”

Markdowns

Small Biz Trends

JUNE 21, 2025

Unsold Items : If items don’t sell within the specified timeframe, you retrieve them or agree on actions like markdowns or donating. Payment : After a successful sale, retailers pay you a percentage of the sale price, typically ranging from 40% to 60%, based on the consignment agreement.

Payment Services

Small Biz Trends

JULY 7, 2025

Use promotional tools available on eBay, such as markdowns, coupons, and volume pricing, to entice buyers. Consider running eBay promotions, like markdowns or limited-time offers, to attract buyers. Consider running targeted ads to reach a wider audience, emphasizing your unique selling proposition (USP) to attract potential customers.

Payment Services

I Vend

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Additionally, real-time inventory management makes it easier to identify slow-moving stock and make adjustments to promotions or markdowns to clear it out. By optimizing stock turnover, mid-size retailers can free up valuable storage space and reduce carrying costs.

Inventory Management

A1 Retail

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Differs (stand #E40) A predictive AI SaaS solution that optimises discounts for each product, allowing retailers, including Sephora and H&M, to sell more at higher prices, protecting margins and optimising markdowns to generate sell-through.

Markdowns

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2025

Whether that’s the algorithmic side of where to fulfill products from so that we have fewer split shipments, or making sure that we are putting the right depth, size and color basis from a geography between digital and physical so that we don’t take as many markdowns because we put the wrong product in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Department Stores

Inside Retail

MAY 5, 2025

Enhanced inventory accuracy also leads to fewer markdowns, lower storage costs, and less waste, directly contributing to improved EBIT. It delivers high levels of pick and stock accuracy, streamlines order processing, and supports reliable fulfilment. This reduces returns, builds customer trust, and improves forecasting.

Fulfillment

Inside Retail

JUNE 16, 2025

According to industry expert Brian Walker, sustained discounting could be the result of inventory misalignment, weak full-price sell-through and/or traffic dependency on markdowns.

Markdowns

Retail Gazette

JUNE 10, 2025

11/03/2025 x 3:41 PM Historically, manual efforts resulted in reactive, trial-and-error markdown cycles, said Debenhams Group. The new system ensures more efficient product movement through clearance, reducing terminal stock buildup and improving cash flow.

Promotions

Inside Retail

JULY 29, 2025

She also noted the “excessive markdowns of what looks like seasonless and basic silhouettes and colours on their website.” In her view, Maison Kitsuné should keep one store open in NYC and use customer feedback to help refine its product assortment and sizing.

Wholesale

Small Biz Trends

JULY 28, 2025

Furthermore, conducting periodic reviews allows you to make timely markdowns, further preventing losses. Practices like FIFO (First In, First Out) guarantee older stock is sold first, reducing the risk of unsold items.

Inventory Management

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 17, 2025

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. 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.

Markdowns

Small Biz Trends

JUNE 14, 2025

They didn’t analyze historical sales trends, resulting in markdowns that cut profits deeply. Lessons Learned from Failures Fashion Store A : This small business failed to anticipate a sudden shift in consumer preferences, leading to significant excess inventory. A data-driven approach could have mitigated this loss.

Inventory Management

Inside Retail

MARCH 5, 2025

We dont want this to be a markdown experience. Its a place where you come for a cappuccino or a manicure, not necessarily to buy something. The store will have less product and more good product [from legacy and niche luxury brands]. We are buying in a more strategic way, for a higher price sell-through.

Retail Marketing

CJ Retail Solutions

JULY 21, 2025

This not only improves customer satisfaction but also optimizes inventory turnover rates, reducing excess stock and minimizing markdowns on unsold items. By implementing technology solutions that integrate inventory data from both online and physical stores, you can ensure accurate stock levels are reflected at all times.

Shopping

Retalon

MARCH 21, 2025

Promotional calendars: Planning key campaigns, promotions, and markdown events throughout the year to drive sales and clear seasonal inventory. For example , A specialty apparel retailer may align on a KPI such as 8% revenue growth while keeping markdowns below 15%, using the AOP as a performance framework for every team.

Markdowns

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

JUNE 12, 2025

Dynamic Promotions & Discounts Engine: Configure, automate, and manage fashion-specific markdowns and sales campaigns. Omnichannel Hub: Real-time sync across in-store, mobile, eCommerce, and back office for seamless operations.

Apparel

Retalon

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

learn more… Fewer Markdowns Minimize profit loss from excess inventory. By accurately forecasting demand, retailers can minimize overproduction and avoid costly markdowns, ensuring optimal stock levels that maximize profitability and reduce financial waste.

Planning

Wiser

JUNE 9, 2025

Mattresses followed a different playbook: staggered markdowns, volatile rebounds, and brand-level strategies that masked broader declines. These kinds of V-shaped trends aren’t signs of market instability; they’re markers of margin tactics, end-of-season clearances, and fresh assortment rollouts. Retailer behavior also diverged.

Management

Retail Dive

JULY 11, 2025

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Payment Services

Small Biz Trends

JUNE 29, 2025

Other tech items from brands like Dyson also feature substantial markdowns, offering you the latest in small business technology. These gadgets enhance remote work and virtual collaboration by providing quality audio for video conferencing.

Shopping

Wiser

MARCH 14, 2025

This includes assessing how markdowns affect sales velocity, ensuring promotional pricing aligns with financial objectives, and maintaining consistency across assortments.

Management

Retail Times

MAY 14, 2025

Last year, Retail Insights AI-powered markdown solution helped the cooperative prevent 1.8million meals from entering landfill. East of England Co-ophas moved closer to its goal of eliminating edible food waste by 2030 by working withRetail Insight, the leading provider of in-store execution software.

Markdowns

Retail Dive

JULY 14, 2025

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Retail Dive

JULY 14, 2025

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Department Stores

Wiser

AUGUST 24, 2017

They are also a way to ensure markdowns and promotions are effective. If your markdown and sale patterns become obvious to your consumer, they will wait for those markdowns and hold off on shopping until a promotion rolls around. Some psychological pricing strategies can have a bigger impact on shoppers than others.

Markdowns

Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

From ensuring high-demand items are always available to minimising markdowns on short-lifecycle products, the pressure to get inventory right has never been greater. Short lifecycle and markdown risks: High-value, short-lifecycle products need accurate forecasting to avoid costly end-of-season write-offs.

Markdowns

Retail Dive

JULY 14, 2025

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Department Stores

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 19, 2025

If one stores best-selling sweater lags at another, you can shift stock accordingly and reduce markdowns. Supply Chain and Inventory Coordination: With heightened demand signals from fitting room analytics, your supply chain can adapt faster to local preferences.

Visual Merchandising

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Lifecycle pricing , which integrates base pricing, promotions and markdowns into one holistic strategy, can help merchants optimize their approach — especially as they strive to localize, and even personalize, experiences for consumers across all channels. Many times, markdowns are heavily weather related, especially for fashion retailers.

Markdowns

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 27, 2024

Additionally, shoppers are continuing to buy even after school has started to save on markdown items and stretch their budgets further. “Buyers across income levels are choosing to trade down, purchasing less expensive store brands and online options. Retailers should plan for an extended back-to-school season.”

Markdowns

Retail Focus

JUNE 16, 2021

Online retail giant The Very Group will continue to enhance its pricing strategies with DemandTec Markdown Optimisation. The post The Very Group Renews DemandTec Markdown Optimisation appeared first on Retail Focus - Retail Design.

Markdowns

Wiser

APRIL 7, 2020

Altering your price, particularly through markdowns, can be a smart strategy, but only if done correctly. Unsuccessful or excessive markdowns can lead to staggering losses in terms of missed revenue and a lower margin on your goods. What are Retail Markdowns? How to Implement a Markdown Strategy. Don’t believe us?

Markdowns

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 7, 2021

These insights are a powerful way to gauge consumer demand for sustainable products with current and past sales data, identify the most profitable promotional strategies, and minimize markdowns and waste from the start. Businesses can then better predict and measure markdown results while dynamically updating markdown plans.

Markdowns

Inside Retail

APRIL 9, 2022

Your markdown SKUs are live, but how are they tracking? Now is the time to check how your markdown performance is tracking against your retail markdown strategy keeping inventory management top of mind. Full price vs markdown mix. Review performance of current markdown clearance stock. Markdown cover.

Markdowns