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.

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Retail Adventures

OCTOBER 22, 2020

2020 Dates to Remember: This year Black Friday is on November 27, Cyber Monday is November 30, Small Business Saturday is November 28, and the biggest shopping day of the holiday season will be December 19, the Saturday before Christmas. Be prepared for markdowns and returns. Your store must participate on Black Friday.

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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

Maintaining margins within business constraints while efficiently providing order fulfillment to customers is a tall order, especially considering each customer purchase requires a real-time fulfillment decision within a shifting context of inventory, demand, returns, delivery times, and shipping costs. That’s the billion dollar question.

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Retalon

APRIL 27, 2021

In effect, this means a reduction of total inventories, maximized sales, and reduced markdowns. According to Digital Commerce 360 , American consumer online spending in 2020 increased 44% to $861 billion. Often, returning products to the store that fulfilled the original purchase will create inventory excesses and lead to markdowns.

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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. We fared well through 2020 as we have a strong online presence, though in 202,1 we saw things slow down a bit.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Major retailers survived 2020 by transforming how they got their products into customers’ hands. Instead of only shipping to customers’ homes, retailers let online customers shop from their local and online store’s inventory and pick up their orders from their closest brick-and-mortar location the same day. Lower shipping costs.

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Retail Minded

AUGUST 27, 2022

Stockouts were disastrous for retailers during the pandemic – up by 250% (Adobe, 2021) – and with 37% of consumers saying they’d simply shop elsewhere if they couldn’t find what. Among them, a global supply chain crisis – rife with driver shortages and lengthy shipping. in 2021 from 10.6%

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