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As the Holidays Approach, it’s Time to Rethink Retail Pricing Methodology…and AI Can Help

Retail TouchPoints

In this kind of shopping environment, how should retailers align their promotions and markdowns for the greatest impact? Ending the Tradition of Blanket Markdowns Enter this year’s holiday shopper. Retailers can now gauge how different items sell at different speeds at different times, to different customers.

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Lowe’s Expands DC-Based Delivery of Bulky Products to 8 More Regions

Retail TouchPoints

CEO Marvin Ellison, speaking during a recent conference call discussing the home improvement retailer’s Q3 financial results, revealed that Lowe’s is on track to change over its entire store base to this model by the end of 2023. The retailer’s legacy distribution model had stores operating as nodes in the fulfillment process.

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Is Your Fulfillment Strategy Healthy Enough to Keep Pace with Customer Expectations?

Retail TouchPoints

The desire to ship even ground service from stores to deliver more orders within two business days is another customer experience-focused market driver. This last, critical element (markdown avoidance) is the least fully adopted technique across the retail landscape today.

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Google, Accenture Deepen Relationship to Help Retailers Harness and Optimize Their Data

Retail TouchPoints

Google Cloud and Accenture are expanding their strategic partnership with a series of new initiatives to help retailers modernize their businesses and transform store operations. and all of those have a data and analytics element, which is what we’re helping them figure out.”

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IHL Study: Inventory Distortion Will Cost Retailers $1.77 Trillion in 2023

Retail TouchPoints

The report also noted that the most advanced AI solutions can realize savings by using analysis “to route online orders to stores with merchandise most likely to go on markdown while also considering the shipping cost.

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

Retail TouchPoints

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.

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What’s in-store for 2022? How the store will evolve in the age of digital acceleration

Retail Focus

As sporting goods retailer INTERSPORT has found, using digital at the shelf edge to help customers enhances both customer experience and improves efficiency of in-store operations.

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