Inside Retail

AUGUST 25, 2022

Today, with data analytics, shopping habits are far easier to assess. We spoke with customers, watched them shop and planned accordingly. With liquidity being key, we knew that if the product was not selling now, it would not sell in November, being summer, so we had to take the markdowns and be ruthless. Cash is king.

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Retalon

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The direct and indirect damages of lost sales are so great that retailers prefer to markdown unsold inventory, or even get rid of it at cost. These variables, along with pricing and vendor lead times make planning demand very difficult. This means they can’t markdown their products without devaluing the brand.

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Markdowns Fast Fashion Consumer Accessories 41

Retalon

MARCH 2, 2021

Destination resorts that run gift shops must account for occupation rates in their hotels as well as weather. . That’s why fashion retail planning and analytics software needs to be unique and specific to fashion, with the ability to break down business considerations even further than that. For instance, .

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Retalon

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The pressure for transformation is coming from all sides, as consumers expect a more streamlined shopping experience, workers expect flexibility and modernity, and competitors like Amazon win more market share using cutting edge tech as their advantage. Digital transformation has changed the way consumers shop and how retailers operate.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The direct and indirect damages of lost sales are so great that retailers prefer to markdown unsold inventory, or even get rid of it at cost. These variables, along with pricing and vendor lead times make planning demand very difficult. This means they can’t markdown their products without devaluing the brand. Brand Image.

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Markdowns Fast Fashion Consumer Accessories 41

Retalon

APRIL 14, 2021

Creating a product assortment strategy is necessary for retailers to have a holistic, long-view plan of their business. And it needs to fit into your retail planning process to ensure you’re still hitting your financial and inventory targets. Account for changing consumer behaviour and preferences.

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Retalon

APRIL 27, 2021

Although e-commerce gets all of the attention, the past two decades of technological change have transformed every aspect of the retail business — from planning, inventory, pricing, and promotions — all the way down to customer service and the in-store experience. Online sales now account for more than 20% of total retail sales.

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Both of these stars have been seen modelling Fashion Nova clothing on their own Instagram accounts and Cardi B also has her own Fashion Nova clothing line. Shein has grown very fast becoming the most downloaded shopping app on iOS and Android in the United States in May of 2021 with Amazon coming in second.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In order to understand how to take full advantage of this new technology, we will first explain what demand forecasting actually is, the most common methods of demand forecasting in retail, key constraints that need to be accounted for, and modern examples of accurate demand forecasting. Demand Forecast vs. Demand Plan.

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Payment Services Promotions Accounting Fulfillment 41

Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

This means that optimizing your fulfillment across all channels requires building a holistic process that takes your specific company policies and labour considerations into account, while still finding the cheapest and fastest method for fulfilling omnichannel orders (while keeping your customers happy) — for every order.

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Retalon

MARCH 4, 2019

Modern retailers take advantage of advanced retail predictive analytics planning solutions. With multiple plans, and several levels of planners, plans may go through lots of re-consolidations, merging, and adding up to the “master plan”. This means that changes to plans are very cumbersome. Inventory Management.

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Retalon

AUGUST 16, 2019

The growth of online and mobile shopping spheres has created more opportunities to connect with shoppers, but introduced new challenges where personalization and consistency are concerned. You can better plan for stocking of inventory at warehouses and retail locations and optimize the fulfillment process for online and mobile orders.

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Fulfillment Customer Experience Markdowns Consumer 32

Retalon

AUGUST 16, 2019

The growth of online and mobile shopping spheres has created more opportunities to connect with shoppers, but introduced new challenges where personalization and consistency are concerned. You can better plan for stocking of inventory at warehouses and retail locations and optimize the fulfillment process for online and mobile orders.

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Retalon

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In order to truly understand the cost of lost sales, and just how many customers they will be losing, Coach needs to understand the shopping habits and preferences of fur-buyers, and also identify what products are being offered by competitors that could steal your customers. 2) Customers stand by Coach’s decision.

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Markdowns Fashion Inventory Management Accounting 32

Retalon

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In order to truly understand the cost of lost sales, and just how many customers they will be losing, Coach needs to understand the shopping habits and preferences of fur-buyers, and also identify what products are being offered by competitors that could steal your customers. 2) Customers stand by Coach’s decision.

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Markdowns Fashion Inventory Management Accounting 32

Wiser

AUGUST 3, 2017

Your competitive positioning is a key metric when planning retail promotions. If shoppers thought that your markdowns were just a gimmick, they wouldn’t pay them any attention. In this article we will break down the elements all retailers and brands need to carry promotions out as efficiently as possible. .

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

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. The customer visits a retail store’s e-commerce website and adds products to their shopping cart. Saves time and money.

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365 Retail

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The ability of AI science to take into account cross-item effects, such as halo and cannibalization, gives merchants and pricing professionals a holistic view of how a single price change or promotional offer will affect a category overall. Cross-Item Effects at Your Fingertips.

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Retalon

JUNE 10, 2020

Price planning is one of the most difficult (and often misunderstood) elements of retailing strategies. But emulating successful retailers in price planning isn’t enough. Standard price planning strategies (competition pricing, cost-plus, high-low, EDLP, etc.) What does this mean for price planning?

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Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In fact, recent McKinsey industry research found that when delivery (fulfillment) times are too long, almost half of consumers will shop elsewhere. It used to be that consumers mostly shopped at stores geographically close to them. An accurate forecast must account for how relevant factors will affect each SKU at the store level.

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M19 Retail

APRIL 14, 2021

The multiplication of choices induced by this model translates into a drop in productivity of the physical store space and an increase in markdowns at the end of the season to sell unsold products. This complexity requires more planning effort than only large data analysis and algorithms using artificial intelligence can help manage.

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Retalon

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

If losing money on easily solvable issues was not enough, retailers are struggling to hold on to market share as consumers choose a value-driven shopping experience. 21st century consumers want a purpose-driven shopping experience, and they are voting with their wallets. Unsustainable companies are becoming social pariahs.

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Retail Prophet

JULY 18, 2022

In 1956, after almost two decades of planning, McClean’s musings became reality got when he loaded 58 metal containers in Port Newark onto the S.S. Most companies today, according to Thorbeck, are accounting only for the front-end advantage that low cost might afford them. A huge saving of time and labor, he thought.

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