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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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How Smaller Assortments, Lower Inventory Levels Can Maximize Post-COVID Success

Retail TouchPoints

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.

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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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Meet Lindsay Nicholas, the fashion designer bringing NY edge to Melbourne

Inside Retail

Of course, life doesn’t always turn out as we plan, and we wound up moving to Melbourne in 2017. I ran the business for two years with trips back and forth to NYC, but it wasn’t optimal, so in 2019, I moved the business to Melbourne. We’re also not a brand that takes markdowns on stock after six weeks.

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Forever 21: 4 Reasons it Failed & Filed for Bankruptcy

Indigo 9 Digital

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. Between 2018 and 2019 Forever 21’s stores in Canada, Europe and Asia lost approximately $10 million per month.

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Marks & Spencer’s Turnaround Strategy, Why it’s Working

Indigo 9 Digital

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.

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The Impact of Sustainability in Shaping Retail

Retail Next

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.