Inside Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A few years ago, it seemed like every new brand making noise in the market was adopting a direct-to-consumer (DTC) business model. Like many trends, the discourse around DTC is a rollercoaster, ranging from ‘DTC is dead!’ to ‘Look at this amazing DTC brand! Everyone should do this.’

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Retail Prophet

JULY 18, 2022

While cotton could indeed be sourced elsewhere, the US had several distinct market advantages. If anything, it was the use of slave labor that made it simply impossible to compete with the United States with on the global cotton market. Thus preventing the US from ever again recapturing such outsized share of the global cotton market.

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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

This includes everything from storing inventory, processing orders, picking stock, shipping packages, and delivering orders to the end consumer. And yet, failing to live up to consumer expectations can be just as deadly — especially when retail behemoths like Amazon are gobbling up market share.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The marketing and loyalty department provide consumer/promotion data, the POS system provides sales/returns data. How much extra inventory should be ordered for planned promotions? What is the optimal pricing/markdown strategy to sell off inventory by end of season while a staying away from lost sales, and dead inventory?

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Retalon

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The marketing and loyalty department provide consumer/promotion data, the POS system provides sales/returns data. How much extra inventory should be ordered for planned promotions? What is the optimal pricing/markdown strategy to sell off inventory by end of season while a staying away from lost sales, and dead inventory?

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