Retail Dive

JULY 11, 2025

You can unsubscribe at anytime. The retailer acquired Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse in 2002, and has since grown to 520 retail locations, all but 45 of them under the Rack Room banner. The retailer acquired Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse in 2002, and has since grown to 520 retail locations, all but 45 of them under the Rack Room banner.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The retailer will only see this issue using historical sales data after one or more sales periods have passed and they begin to look at historical sales data. learn more… Fewer Markdowns Minimize profit loss from excess inventory. Predictive analytics enables retailers to adjust assortments dynamically based on real-time data.

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Retail Dive

JULY 14, 2025

You can unsubscribe at anytime. You can unsubscribe at anytime. Please select at least one newsletter. It could be an attempt to broaden revenue streams, plot the location of a future store or, at its simplest, take advantage of a good deal. You can unsubscribe at anytime. By Retail Dive Staff • Jan.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Hard goods retailers, in particular, face unique challenges when it comes to managing stock levels across large, multi-location operations. From ensuring high-demand items are always available to minimising markdowns on short-lifecycle products, the pressure to get inventory right has never been greater.

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Retail Dive

JULY 14, 2025

You can unsubscribe at anytime. A smart home hub, like the company’s Dirigera, is required to add Matter-enabled products to a home setup. “Until now, smart home technology hasn’t been easy enough to use for most people, or affordable enough for many to consider,” David Granath, range manager at Ikea of Sweden, said in a statement.

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Retail Dive

JULY 14, 2025

You can unsubscribe at anytime. The retailer is opening new locations in California, Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. The new locations will open between July and August, with three of the spaces larger than Target’s chainwide average of 125,000 square feet. You can unsubscribe at anytime.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But at the same time merchants’ margins are being squeezed, making intelligent pricing and promotions strategies even more critical for success. Localization is critical because there’s so much nuance across different regions,” said Matthew Pavich, Senior Director of Retail Innovation at Revionics in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2023

The company is looking to pivot Journeys to an off-mall strategy, with 13 locations out of a planned 25 already open. Comparable sales at Journeys plummeted 14% , dragging the company’s overall comparable sales down 5% despite positive results from the Schuh and Johnston & Murphy banners. Genesco’s gross margin was 47.3%

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In addition to this timing variation, over 60% of shoppers plan to do their browsing online, yet 85% expect to buy at least one product in a store. Add it all up and it’s clear that the timing duration, and location of holiday shopping is not like the old days.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2024

The deployment is designed to reduce the risk of markdowns and stock shortages while also limiting the impact of underperforming products. First Insight’s platform gives us fast, actionable insights into our customers’ preferences, which has already provided significant value.”

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Retail Dive

JULY 9, 2025

You can unsubscribe at anytime. Dive Brief: Amid efforts to recapture market share, Lululemon is increasing markdown activity at “alarming rates” alongside strategic merchandise shifts that pose a risk to earnings, according to a Wednesday research note from Jefferies analysts shared with Retail Dive.

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Markdowns ATS Department Stores Marketing 78

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 26, 2022

Spanish children’s clothing retailer Charanga will deploy the Nedap iD Cloud platform at all owned stores, franchised stores and displays inside El Corte Inglés locations in Spain, Portugal and Italy. The technology also is expected to help reduce waste and lead to fewer markdowns.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It was at that point that putting the technology and operations in place to fulfill from an increasingly complex supply chain network embarked upon its next frontier. The digital channel typically had one or more dedicated facilities, which ironically were often planned and managed like an individual additional brick-and-mortar location.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

At Mejuri, we view data as a strategic asset, especially when it helps us create more compelling customer experiences,” said Majed Masad, COO at Mejuri in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. Mejuri uses the real-time tracking to swiftly, and fluidly, pivot strategies. “A

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Markdowns Fulfillment Shipping Marketing Spend 251

Inside Retail

JUNE 1, 2021

Seskin, whose father, JD Sports Australia chairman Hilton Seskin, is a strategic advisor to TheDOM.com, declined to name the brands that will be available at launch, but said the team has been “hand-picking” the ones it wants to work with. “We’ve Everyone might go 30 per cent off on their first markdown, but their reach is limited.

Consumer 247

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

As a result, consumer behavior has become harder to predict across multiple locations, which makes zone pricing a must for retailers. Savvy retailers are focusing more heavily on determining demand by geographic zones, using local data to inform prices, promotions and markdowns based on real-time consumer behavior. Within the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2023

at its flagship banner and up 5.8% at Family Dollar stores, but even discounters are facing cautious consumer spending and employee pay raises that aren’t expected to pay off for some time. at its flagship banner and up 5.8% Beauty sales were a bright point at both businesses. during Q4, but they were up 0.6%

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 18, 2020

OVERTIME by DICK’S Sporting Goods locations will offer an assortment of apparel, footwear and equipment at up to 75% off. The location will stock brands including Nike , Adidas and Under Armour , with additional markdowns added throughout the year to keep inventory fresh. Spartanburg, S.C. and Racine, Wis.

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Sporting Goods Markdowns Apparel Discount Store 179

Inside Retail

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Another is markdowns. But with Ship from Store you can fulfil online orders from your entire pool of inventory, enabling you to sell more at higher margins, deliver faster and get more value from your in-store inventory – while also mitigating risk. Adjust your sourcing strategies to help reduce markdowns.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 6, 2022

Shoppers should be able to quickly locate pertinent product information. They want to be certain they’re making the right purchase, so help them arrive at that decision with full confidence. An item’s popularity or novelty can be communicated via badges that read “best seller,” “newly added,” or even “new markdown.”

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 19, 2024

Even worse, these promotions often fail to clear the desired inventory at all. Discounts of 60% or more can be problematic unless they are at the very end of your markdown season, as customers start to perceive them as artificial and question if your prices mean anything at all. Almost never.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Many retailers are worried that they don’t have all the data at their fingertips, like product data, customer data, transactional data, when items sold, on what device and more. Everyone starts somewhere, and it’s OK wherever you are at in your data journey. I don’t have all the data I know I should have, is that OK?

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

At the same time, many retailers are reporting higher and higher shipping costs, which are affecting profits on their balance sheets. Today’s promise engines have gotten smarter about transit time, carrier rates, inventory location and other factors. The real complexity comes when we are looking at thousands of SKUs.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Antuit.ai’s Forecasting, Allocation and Replenishment solution is an omnichannel-aware suite that employs leading-edge AI and machine learning to anticipate consumer demand at the most granular levels across all fulfilment channels by leveraging internal and external data to evaluate all demand drivers.

Markdowns 130

Markdowns Fulfillment Shipping Fashion 130

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 31, 2023

alone at $100 billion. We expect this to continue to improve and thankfully many of the issues are targeted at specific products and not as systemic as they have been during the last three years,” according to the report. While a problem across the U.S., IHL estimates the cost of ORC in the U.S.

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Retail Smart Guys

JANUARY 16, 2025

Key Benefits of Inventory Management Boosts Sales and Profitability : Prevents lost sales due to out-of-stock items and reduces markdowns from overstocked goods. How Retail Smart Guys Can Help With expert open-to-buy planning, Retail Smart Guys helps you: Stock the right products at the right time. Reduce markdowns and boost profits.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

By creating narrower product assortments and limiting inventory levels — especially for product shipments headed to brick-and-mortar stores —merchants would gain the ability to react more quickly to changing consumer trends, and even potentially reduce their need for markdowns. What can retailers do to eliminate or at least minimize these?

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2021

By intelligently optimising pricing, markdowns and promotions, based on demand triggers, retailers can make the granular decisions needed at each store location to increase sell-through and protect margins, whilst meeting consumers expectations on prices and discounts.”.

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Markdowns Promotions Consumer Fashion 148

Retail Smart Guys

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Retail consulting is a specialized service aimed at assisting retailers in crafting effective strategies, boosting sales, attracting customers, and enhancing their overall market presence. In marketing, they excel at optimizing product placement and store location while ensuring your branding resonates with current trends.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 28, 2020

While the retailer incurred additional expenses from associate bonuses and other COVID-19-related expenditures, Dollar General was able to reduce markdowns, on top of benefiting from increased purchase volume. Unlike some other retailers , Dollar General’s selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expenses actually dropped, to 20.5%

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Inside Retail

MARCH 15, 2022

An assortment plan provides: A solid structure around how many options of styles or colours to buy and at what price, gives buyers guidance when buying inventory, and gives merchandisers a financial plan and confidence in the sales budgets. What is assortment planning? This is all managed by the store grading. More on this later.

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Inside Retail

MAY 30, 2024

Halara is a fast-growing athleisure and lifestyle brand founded in October 2020 by Joyce Zhang, a technologist who previously led algorithmic projects at tech-centered companies like Microsoft and Hulu. Prior to joining the team, had been acting in the role of chief executive officer at Diane von Furstenberg. What’s next for Halara?

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Markdowns Wholesale Planning Consumer 130

Wiser

AUGUST 25, 2020

On top of that, local and national governments will have their own guidelines and requirements for organizations at this time. Perhaps you reduced your hours or installed hand sanitizer at the entrances. 4: Use Promotions and Markdowns to Move Seasonal Inventory. This will help prepare everyone for when they do come back.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 30, 2024

Retailers worldwide may be facing challenging times right now, but the evolution of technology – including the deployment of AI – is opening the way to dramatic improvements in productivity at all stages of the retail business model. You are optimising the value of that product by discounting at the right time, rather than too early.”

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Loss Prevention Shrinkage Inventory Management Markdowns 147

Retail Smart Guys

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Retail consulting is a specialized service aimed at assisting retailers in crafting effective strategies, boosting sales, attracting customers, and enhancing their overall market presence. In marketing, they excel at optimizing product placement and store location while ensuring your branding resonates with current trends.

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Markdowns Promotions Management Location 64

Inside Retail

JUNE 20, 2023

GenAI can adapt to resonate and connect at the appropriate level, given the task or resolution at hand. By adjusting prices in real time based on this analysis, retailers can increase revenue, reduce markdowns, and remain competitive in a constantly changing market. Airlines have been doing this for years.

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Retail Adventures

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Begin at the back: New merchandise is always featured at the front of the store, so start at the back where you will find the clearance racks. There’s a reason milk and eggs are housed at the back of the store – retailers want you to have to have to walk through new and promotional items first.

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