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

Retail TouchPoints

The company is looking to pivot Journeys to an off-mall strategy, with 13 locations out of a planned 25 already open. 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%

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

Retail TouchPoints

More and more, that means rethinking product development and expanding their sizing and assortment planning to represent a wider range of sizes and body shapes. But it’s still true that only a small fraction of the fashion retail market has put tactical plans into place to support this significant consumer base. billion in the U.S.

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

Retail Gazette

Matalan’s pandemic cost-cutting efforts returned the business to stable ground ahead of its sale last year, helping to provide a launchpad as it steps up its transformation plans under CEO Jo Whitfield. in its second quarter, with sales up 0.8% in its second quarter, with sales up 0.8%

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The Data Dilemma with Retail Pricing and How to Untangle it

Retail TouchPoints

Begin with what you have and build a plan to fill in the gaps. Many of your retail peers found themselves with the dilemma of missing data — from the lack of customer data, transaction history for certain items or timeframes or sales broken out by sales type (regular/base, promotion and markdown).

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

Retail TouchPoints

Retailer Plans to Use Solution Across Multiple Channels. This customer-level profit insight can inform every business decision, from where to acquire the highest value customers to how best to serve them in a retail store and at the residential doorstep. ”.

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