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Integrate Pricing, Promotions and Markdowns to Drive Profitability

Retail TouchPoints

Lifecycle pricing , which integrates base pricing, promotions and markdowns into one holistic strategy, can help merchants optimize their approach — especially as they strive to localize, and even personalize, experiences for consumers across all channels.

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2023: Ring in Retail Profits by Stopping Automated Threats

Retail TouchPoints

This was especially evident on Black Friday, when many merchants offered steep markdowns to compete. Specifically, bot operators continue to siphon retailer profits with increasingly sophisticated automated threats — including account takeover, web and API scraping and more. Invisible protection for optimal customer experience.

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Pacsun Improves Profitability with Intelligent Allocation and Replenishment with Antuit.ai

Retail Focus

With 330 bricks-and-mortar stores globally, its digital fashion offering, available in both the UK and US, has experienced fast-growth, and now accounts for 40% of its sales. To do so requires leveraging granular forecasting for online fulfilment and store sales demand, while taking returns into account.”

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As Consumer Demand for Inclusion Rises, Retailers Must Tackle Legacy Issues and Attitudes

Retail TouchPoints

Products that are sized 18 and above and available in the UK only account for 14% of the total market. As a result, brands and retailers need to think more holistically about their customers and how they can present products to them across all channels in a way that relates to them. Challenge 3: Pricing.

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

Retail TouchPoints

The company decided to invest in technology that would help it harness the power of data to improve its customer insights and the shopper experience. “At The brand deployed a SaaS module from SoundCommerce , dubbed SoundProfit 360, that provides real-time order tracking and shopper-level profitability insights.

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Open to Buy Retail Planning Done Right

Retalon

At home, the gift budget may need to be significantly higher in December than in January to account for holidays. If you plan to mark down products at a certain stage of the product lifecycle, such as the last trimester of the season, you need to adjust the numbers to account for markdowns.

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Personalization vs. Consistency in the Retail Customer Experience

Retalon

Not only do you have to decide which metrics are most likely to provide high-value consumer data, but then you must have the resources on hand to analyze it in search of trends that help you to hone your brand strategies and better personalize the retail customer experience. Benefits and Challenges of Personalization.