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

Retail TouchPoints

The Adobe Index — which analyzes consumer transactions across more than 100 million SKUs in 18 categories — found that consumers have spent more than $541 billion online in the first eight months of this year, from January through August 2021. 1, 2021, consumers will have spent more online than the $575 billion they spent in all of 2019.

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Mejuri Leverages Real-Time Profitability Data to Inform Decision-Making

Retail TouchPoints

We expect to expand our analysis into areas like cross-channel merchandising promotions performance and inventory (allocation) by channel and location as we move into 2021.”. While COVID-19 made Mejuri focus heavily on ecommerce and customer fundamentals this year, its new and existing retail stores are coming back strong, said Masad. “We

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5 Seasonal Merchandise Best Practices (2021)

Retalon

With seasonal product life-cycles becoming ever shorter, retailers need more strategic and granular ways to plan their seasonal assortments so they can maximize revenue while minimizing markdowns. Account for more variables in your seasonal merchandise planning. This is most obvious when a promotion doesn’t take inventory into account.

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Retail Seasonal Demand Forecasting in 2021

Retalon

That’s why it’s important for all retailers to understand what seasonal demand forecasting is, why it’s so challenging and how retailers in 2021 are overcoming these challenges to increase their bottom line. Retailers either lose sales and customer satisfaction due to inventory shortages or face drastic and expensive markdowns.

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Retail Seasonal Demand Forecasting in 2021

Retalon

That’s why it’s important for all retailers to understand what seasonal demand forecasting is, why it’s so challenging and how retailers in 2021 are overcoming these challenges to increase their bottom line. Retailers either lose sales and customer satisfaction due to inventory shortages or face drastic and expensive markdowns.

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How to Build a Highly Profitable Product Assortment Strategy (2021)

Retalon

Account for changing consumer behaviour and preferences. Sophisticated retail organizations now use advanced analytics software that leverages machine learning and AI technology to use historical data, actually account for product families and understand buying patterns at each location. April 26, 2021. April 21, 2021.

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5 Key Questions to Improve Your Assortment Plans (2021)

Retalon

If your predictions are inaccurate (or your assortment plan fails to reflect consumer demand) — you’ll be facing out-of-stocks, markdowns, and unhappy customers all year. Their only option may be high-level planning that doesn’t take individual stores, demographics, and constraints into account. This is easier said than done.