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

Retail TouchPoints

this year alone, representing approximately 21% of the total women’s apparel market. Retailers need to listen to the customers who are demanding representation, or risk walking away from potential profit and alienating a new consumer base.”. billion in the U.S. Inclusion Definitions Expanding Beyond Sizing. Challenge 3: Pricing.

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How Smaller Assortments, Lower Inventory Levels Can Maximize Post-COVID Success

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers, particularly those in the apparel, footwear and soft goods verticals, have an opportunity to turn the lemons from COVID-19 into lemonade, according to Keith Jelinek and Richard Maicki, Managing Directors in the Performance Improvement Practice of Berkeley Research Group (BRG).

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Open to Buy Retail Planning Done Right

Retalon

One way that OTB funds can be managed is by categories, such as women’s wear in the apparel department. 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. Decide at which level the budget will be set.

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Open to Buy Retail Planning Done Right

Retalon

One way that OTB funds can be managed is by categories, such as women’s wear in the apparel department. 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. Decide at which level the budget will be set.

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Dollar General posts mixed Q1 results

Mass Relators

“We are controlling what we can control and have made significant progress improving our execution on multiple fronts, including on our supply chain recovery efforts and enhancements to the customer experience with our previously announced investment in incremental labor hours. Gross profit as a percentage of net sales was 31.6%

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DG posts higher sales and earnings

Mass Relators

Added Owen, “We are controlling what we can control and have made significant progress improving our execution on multiple fronts, including on our supply chain recovery efforts and enhancements to the customer experience with our previously announced investment in incremental labor hours.

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Dollar General set to keep growing

Mass Relators

“This investment will primarily consist of incremental labor hours to support our expectations regarding consistent store standards while further enhancing the associate and customer experience,” Owen explained during a conference call. “In Apparel, however, decreased 19.4% Sales of seasonal items were flat at $4.2