Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Retailers, particularly those in the apparel, footwear and soft goods verticals, have an opportunity to turn the lemons from COVID-19 into lemonade, according to Keith Jelinek and Richard Maicki, Managing Directors in the Performance Improvement Practice of Berkeley Research Group (BRG). Richard Maicki.

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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 2019 Forever 21’s sales declined from a peak of $4.4 billion in 2019.

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Retalon

AUGUST 2, 2019

Businesses collect more data than ever before and from every aspect of the supply and demand chain—logistics; vendor compliancy/lead times; POS data; inventory levels; traffic cameras; prices; markdowns; consumer behavior; demand forecasts; and more. Merchants and inventory managers attended more co-planning meetings.

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Retalon

AUGUST 2, 2019

Retail businesses collect more data than ever before, and from every aspect of the supply chain, including: Logistics data (vendor compliance, lead times, etc.). Prices (markdowns, promotions, competitor prices, etc.). Predictive analytics systems go beyond traditional forecasting by letting you unify processes within your business.

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Retail Prophet

JULY 18, 2022

Soon, merchants everywhere began to experience what many thought could only happen in third-world economies and banana republics – panic buying, empty shelves and bottomless backlogs to fill them. McClean had managed to reduce the cost of loading and unloading cargo from $5.83 It proved a short journey with long lasting consequences.

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Retalon

JUNE 22, 2020

Demand forecasting is the process of removing the effect of factors that influence sales data to uncover true past demand for your products at all locations and channels. According to a 2019 McKinsey report , retailers that use advanced analytics are outperforming their competition by over 68% — with the number growing exponentially.

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