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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. Many times, markdowns are heavily weather related, especially for fashion retailers.

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New Slate of Google Tools Aims to Help Holiday Bargain Hunters

Retail TouchPoints

The general Deals page features promotions and markdowns in a range of top holiday categories — including apparel, electronics, toys and beauty — from a wide variety of merchants, ranging from big-box stores and multi-brand retailers to DTC brands and local stores.

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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. Bad Bots are Siphoning Profits.

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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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Genesco to Close 100+ Journeys Stores as it Focuses on Off-Mall Locations

Retail TouchPoints

This was attributed to increased markdowns at Journeys offsetting an otherwise normalized promotional environment, which led to improved margins at the other businesses. However, Journeys still accounted for 56.3% Genesco’s gross margin was 47.3% in Q1 2024, compared to 48.3% in Q1 2023. of Genesco’s $483.3

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Matalan profits plunged before investor buyout last year

Retail Gazette

to £288.6m, which it attributed to the improved profitability to its sales performance, tight control of markdown, effective cost management, and positive movements in input prices. to £1.15bn due to price increases, however EBITDA plunged 37.2% to £124.1m and operating profit before exceptionals spiralled almost 80% to £18.7m.

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Matalan’s cost-cutting boosted profitability ahead of investor buyout

Retail Gazette

A Matalan spokesperson said the accounts are “historic” and “do not reflect the current Matalan business, under new ownership and leadership, which is focused on ensuring the business is on a much more solid footing” The retailer revealed last October its EBITDA came in at £47.9m