2019 Markdowns Planning Shipping 
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?
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. Richard Maicki. What can the retailer learn from and improve?
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Inside Retail
JANUARY 26, 2022
With luxurious touches, such as a VIP area with velvet chairs, a personal shopping service, and free domestic shipping for in-store customers, Nicholas calls it “one of the most elegant stores” she has ever seen. Of course, life doesn’t always turn out as we plan, and we wound up moving to Melbourne in 2017.
Indigo 9 Digital
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Shein is vertically integrated allowing it to go from design to shipping in as little as three days. Inditex, Zara’s parent company planned to close up to 1,200 stores by the end of 2022 and open 450 new stores. If you can’t move all of the inventory then markdowns are required which eats into sales per sq. billion in 2019.
Indigo 9 Digital
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
That means if there is slow moving merchandise the retailer doesn’t have to worry about taking markdowns to sell the inventory. Ocado is an online grocer and Marks & Spencer paid £750 million for a 50% stake in Ocado’s UK retail business in 2019. Marks & Spencer plans to lean more into its food offerings in the future.
Retail Next
MARCH 3, 2020
In his article, “ Sustainability and the consumer in 2019 ,” Duncan Baizley painted a very clear (and research-based) picture of how consumers see corporate sustainability, noting that brands will need to move beyond messaging and rather token-like gestures and embrace real, systemic change. 1% for the Planet is the perfect example of this.
Retail Prophet
JULY 18, 2022
If a single image has come to define the failure of global supply chains amid the Covid-19 crisis it’s that of the Ever Given – one of the world’s largest container ships – seized in a diagonal death grip inside the Suez Canal, heavy with more than twenty thousand units of cargo aboard. Slave laborers load cotton onto waiting ships.
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