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What are Retail Markdowns?

Wiser

Inventory management will rarely be the only thing that makes a retailer successful, but it can absolutely be the something that breaks you. Knowing what your customers like is one thing, but understanding how much of each item you need on shelves and how to price them is where inventory management can go awry. Don’t believe us?

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Gartner Hype Cycle for Retail Technologies 2018

Retalon

Distributed Order Management. Unified Price, Promotion and Markdown Optimization. The post Gartner Hype Cycle for Retail Technologies 2018 appeared first on Retalon. In this report: Analysis. What You Need to Know. The Hype Cycle. The Priority Matrix. Off the Hype Cycle. On the Rise. Contextualized Real-Time Pricing.

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Guide for Unified Price, Promotion and Markdown Optimization Applications

Retalon

Getting your product pricing right is absolutely critical to customer cross-channel experience, but the promise of unified price, promotion and markdown optimization is hard to achieve. The post Guide for Unified Price, Promotion and Markdown Optimization Applications appeared first on Retalon. In this report: Market Definition.

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What is Everyday Low Pricing?

Wiser

It’s a complex decision that involves customer behavior, marketing, supply chain and inventory management, and other functional areas. High-Low Pricing is a strategy where a brand starts with a high price and later decreases it via promotions, clearance, or markdowns. What is Everyday Low Pricing? Here are a few signs.

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Putting an End to the $50B Overstock Problem with Advanced Analytics

Retalon

This overstock issue is not new, and retailers have tried to manage their unsold goods through donations and resellers, but there is simply too much inventory. In 2018 retail giant H&M disclosed that they had $4.3 This means they can’t markdown their products without devaluing the brand. Billion in overstocks.

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Putting an End to the $50B Overstock Problem with Advanced Analytics

Retalon

This overstock issue is not new, and retailers have tried to manage their unsold goods through donations and resellers, but there is simply too much inventory. In 2018 retail giant H&M disclosed that they had $4.3 This means they can’t markdown their products without devaluing the brand. Billion in overstocks. Incentives.

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Forever 21: 4 Reasons it Failed & Filed for Bankruptcy

Indigo 9 Digital

Source: Bloomberg "[Forever 21] has lost much of the excitement and oomph which is critical to driving footfall and sales and is now something of an also-ran which is too easily overlooked," said Neil Saunders, the managing director of GlobalData Retail. By 2018 Forever 21’s online sales were only 16% of total sales.