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New Slate of Google Tools Aims to Help Holiday Bargain Hunters

Retail TouchPoints

Making it Easier to ‘Shop Deals’ New Deals Experience on Google Search (Image courtesy Google) Users can now access the Google deals destination in Search by searching the term: “shop deals.” Shoppers interested in a specific category also can add that to the search term to get more specific results, for example, “shop sneaker deals.”

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How Halara uses machine learning to make just the right amount of activewear

Inside Retail

Having launched as a strictly direct-to-consumer brand, Halara is switching things up and will be hosting its first-ever pop-up shop at 470 Broadway in New York City. As Hirata remarked, “Often you can’t, that’s why brands do markdowns like discounts or sample sales, or even why inventory sometimes goes straight to the landfill.”

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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

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

Retail TouchPoints

New data from the Adobe Digital Economy Index highlights the staying power of online shopping habits formed during the pandemic, seemingly answering one of the biggest questions of the year: will ecommerce continue to grow, or settle down to pre-pandemic levels? The answer appears to be the former. on average each year.

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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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11 Steps to Shopping Your Competition

Retail Adventures

How often do you mystery shop your competition – in person, online and on social medias? Shopping your competition is an exercise that needs to happen at least once a quarter. When we mystery shop we carefully examine the operational categories in the store, and then rate each one on a scale of 1 to 10. Mystery shop your store.