Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2023

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. “We We were competitive but measured in our promotions, took strategic markdowns and intentionally did not chase unprofitable sales. during Q4, but they were up 0.6%

Markdowns

Retail Dive

JULY 24, 2025

To cope with the price hikes, they plan to buy items on sale (38%), purchase items from cheaper brands (29%), comparison shop (29%) and reuse supplies (28%). Nearly two-thirds (62%) of shoppers plan to buy their back-to-school items from discount stores, followed by Amazon (57%) and dollar stores or variety retailers (42%), the survey found.

Payment Services

Retalon

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

A robust merchandise planning solution powered by AI-driven analytics is now a necessity for retailers looking to optimize inventory, forecast demand accurately, and enhance profitability. The traditional planning solution often resulted in inefficiencies, data silos, and costly errors.

Planning

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?

Planning

Retail Dive

JULY 11, 2025

Executives reiterated plans to open 50 to 60 net new stores, including 16 net new doors in Q3; Beyond Yoga is on on track to open six more stores this year, bringing its total store count to 14. You can unsubscribe at anytime. The company is expanding its DTC channel and growing its Beyond Yoga brand. TechTarget, Inc.s

Markdowns

Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

After Forever 21 opened its first store in 1984 in the United States fast fashion started to gain in popularity. Although clothing is a department store staple retailers like Sears or specialty retailers like Gap couldn’t keep up with a more nimble fast fashion retailer like Forever 21. Large stores are inherently risky.

Fast Fashion

Retail Dive

JULY 10, 2025

The acquisition will not interfere with Ulta’s other capital allocation plans for the year, the company said. Back in 2019, the beauty retailer had planned to expand to Canada, but dropped those plans a year later to focus on its U.S. You can unsubscribe at anytime. operations. You can unsubscribe at anytime.

Department Stores

Indigo 9 Digital

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

That means if there is slow moving merchandise the retailer doesn’t have to worry about taking markdowns to sell the inventory. Marks & Spencer plans to lean more into its food offerings in the future. Then another 30 full line stores will be closed over the next nine years. That’s a total of 130 full line store closures.

Drop-Shipping

Retalon

JANUARY 7, 2021

Seasonal merchandise planning carries a unique challenge for retailers, as product life cycles are measured in weeks or even days. . This is a problem because retailers plan their inventory months in advance — having almost no window to react to out-of-stocks or an unexpected up-lift in demand.

Markdowns

Retail Dive

JULY 28, 2025

Tech to the rescue Getting that data — and the visibility into store operations that it provides — is enabled by technologies that find mistakes, flag needs and detect patterns. retailers’ plans for investment in store intelligence technologies for the next year have skyrocketed over 150%, Coresight found. In the U.S.,

Loss Prevention

Retail Dive

JULY 10, 2025

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Department Stores

Retail Dive

JULY 10, 2025

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Payment Services

Retail Dive

JULY 10, 2025

Walmart’s generative AI shopping assistant Sparky, announced last month , can summarize reviews and help shoppers plan purchases. You can unsubscribe at anytime. Deploying different uses for AI is a balance Walmart and Amazon , among other companies, have attempted to strike. You can unsubscribe at anytime. Registered in England and Wales.

Payment Services

Retail Dive

JULY 25, 2025

Deep Dive Podcasts Library Events Press Releases Topics Sign up Search Sign up Search Operations Marketing Technology DTC Distressed Retail Department Stores Executives Financial News Trends E-Commerce An article from Column The Weekly Closeout: Phlur gets acquired and American Eagle’s stock soars The fragrance brand is being sold to private equity.

Markdowns

Retail Dive

JULY 9, 2025

In those meetings, the company also said it has no plans to close stores. A Saks Global spokesperson said the company is grateful to Antonini “for his many contributions in helping to strengthen our stores business.” You can unsubscribe at anytime. You can unsubscribe at anytime. Sign up A valid email address is required.

Department Stores

Retail Dive

JULY 11, 2025

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Payment Services

Retail Dive

JULY 14, 2025

Additionally, over 95% of Snapchat users plan to shop in-store for back-to-school this year, per data cited in release details, an insight that supports American Eagle’s decision to focus its efforts on Snap Map. You can unsubscribe at anytime. The move comes as spending among U.S. consumers during the season is expected to rise 3.3%

Shopping

Retail Dive

JULY 10, 2025

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Consumer

Retail Dive

JULY 7, 2025

A century ago this was a brilliant formula for pencil-and-paper estimates of inventory and margins, as merchandise flowed in and out of stores. Visibility into those line items fogs up easily, though, because the method works best when markons, markups and markdowns are fairly consistent, according to Suni Shamapande, partner at PwC U.S.

Accounting