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How Improving Markdowns Will Impact Your Most Important Supply Chain KPIs

Retail TouchPoints

So why should these teams expand their focus to consider markdown planning in addition to their already full slate of targets? Because better markdowns have the potential to significantly improve the traditional KPIs that supply chain teams are evaluated on.

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What are Retail Markdowns?

Wiser

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?

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Adobe: Consumers Will Spend More Online in First 10 Months of 2021 than All of 2019

Retail TouchPoints

That’s 9% more than the comparable period last year and 58% more than 2019. 1, 2021, consumers will have spent more online than the $575 billion they spent in all of 2019. As a historical benchmark, from 2015 to 2019, online prices fell 3.9% In fact, Adobe forecasts that even before the holiday season begins on Nov.

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New app helps grocers, consumers reduce food waste

Inside Retail

Local customers can see what is on sale in their neighbourhood supermarkets and actively participate in reducing waste in their community “Typically, retailers have to rely on shoppers sporadically finding a markdown in store while preoccupied with their shopping. The Gander app is available for download on iOS and Android devices.

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Young customers push Burberry sales to pre-pandemic levels

Retail Wire

Burberry, which operates 454 stores, reports that sales in the last quarter were up 86 percent over 2020 and one percent from 2019, as younger consumers purchased the luxury retailers clothing and accessories. “We

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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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Preparing for the Rise in Online Retail Returns

Retail TouchPoints

Returns are increasing labor costs due to inspection and restocking time and often cause markdowns, out-of-stock and logistics expenses to increase. A 2019 study found that 46% of returns were attributed to the “wrong size, fit, or color.” Retailers can also create a return policy that avoids waste.

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