Retalon

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

learn more… Fewer Markdowns Minimize profit loss from excess inventory. Learn more… Rebalancing Inventory Identify and relocate slow-moving items to high-demand locations for increased sales. These improvements are driven by, Better Stock Distribution Reduce overstock and optimize inventory placement.

Planning 41

Planning Markdowns Fulfillment Consumer 41

Retail Dive

JULY 11, 2025

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. 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. Please select at least one newsletter.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services Promotions Department Stores Markdowns 52

Retail Dive

JULY 14, 2025

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. 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. By Retail Dive Staff • Jan. By Nate Delesline III • Feb.

Beauty and Health 104

Beauty and Health Department Stores Markdowns Retail Trends 104

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.

Markdowns 130

Markdowns Inventory Management Planning Outdoor 130

Retail Dive

JULY 14, 2025

The company this year announced plans to open eight new stores , including specially formatted locations in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Oregon. Beyond expanding its tech device lineup, Ikea is growing its store footprint. stores and online. Sign up A valid email address is required. Please select at least one newsletter.

Department Stores 59

Department Stores Payment Services Markdowns Sporting Goods 59

Retail Dive

JULY 14, 2025

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. The retailer plans to open 20 this year. Please select at least one newsletter.

Department Stores 95

Department Stores Markdowns Location Planning 95

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Lifecycle pricing , which integrates base pricing, promotions and markdowns into one holistic strategy, can help merchants optimize their approach — especially as they strive to localize, and even personalize, experiences for consumers across all channels. Many times, markdowns are heavily weather related, especially for fashion retailers.

Markdowns 321

Markdowns Promotions Merchant Services Marketing 321

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. This was attributed to increased markdowns at Journeys offsetting an otherwise normalized promotional environment, which led to improved margins at the other businesses. “We Genesco’s gross margin was 47.3% in Q1 2023.

Location 243

Location Markdowns Accounting Promotions 243

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Add it all up and it’s clear that the timing duration, and location of holiday shopping is not like the old days. 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.

Markdowns 278

Markdowns Retailing Pricing Promotions Fulfillment 278

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. Family Dollar has partnered with First Insight to refine its merchandise assortment strategy using the solution’s predictive analytics and actionable data.

Markdowns 264

Markdowns Location Planning ATS 264

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.

Markdowns 246

Markdowns Shipping Location Shopping 246

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2023

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. In reality, no demand forecasting system can predict the future perfectly, and throughout the season there will always be units of inventory in sub-optimal locations.

Fulfillment 286

Fulfillment Drop-Shipping Shipping Markdowns 286

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Mejuri sells through multiple channels, including ecommerce, call center and physical store locations, processing orders for fulfillment across multiple locations and a variety of shipping methods.

Markdowns 251

Markdowns Fulfillment Shipping Marketing Spend 251

Retail Dive

JULY 9, 2025

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. You can unsubscribe at anytime. Please select at least one newsletter.

Markdowns 78

Markdowns ATS Department Stores Marketing 78

Inside Retail

JUNE 1, 2021

Another differentiator between TheDOM.com and existing discount platforms is the fact that it aims to consolidate all off-price activity in one location. From tactical promotions, to markdowns, to engineered lines – similar to what you might see in an outlet mall, for example – all the way through to clearance,” Seskin said. “If

Consumer 247

Consumer Markdowns Fulfillment Shopping 247

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.

Markdowns 265

Markdowns Technical Support Promotions Consumer 265

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.

Sporting Goods 179

Sporting Goods Markdowns Apparel Discount Store 179

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2023

Macy’s Sees its Future in Luxury and Off-Mall Locations Macy’s has been diligently modernizing its operations for the past several years, and its performance in the coming months will be a sign of whether its efforts are paying off. “In That’s a clear advantage in the near term and remains our focus over the long term.”

Markdowns 311

Markdowns Operating Expenses Department Stores Planning 311

Inside Retail

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Another is markdowns. Adjust your sourcing strategies to help reduce markdowns. You can ship items from the store or location with the most inventory, the oldest inventory, the lowest sell-through rate or the highest in-store markdowns. This strategy works for seasonal markdowns, too. One way is liquidators.

Markdowns 130

Markdowns Fulfillment Shipping Location 130

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 6, 2022

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

Checkout 299

Checkout Markdowns Apparel Promotions 299

Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

It also resulted in more accurate forecasting for Pacsun store and online demand, and a balanced inventory between stores and its ecommerce distribution centres, delivering higher sell-through rates, reduced markdowns and improved margins.

Markdowns 130

Markdowns Fulfillment Shipping Fashion 130

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Many of your retail peers found themselves with the dilemma of missing data — from the lack of customer data, transaction history for certain items or timeframes or sales broken out by sales type (regular/base, promotion and markdown). If not, you don’t have to collect every SKU, every day for every competitor location or web page.

Retailing Pricing 246

Retailing Pricing Markdowns Accounting Outdoor 246

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 19, 2024

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. A 40% discount requires careful storytelling to avoid diluting the brand image, such as framing it as a birthday sale. Almost never.

Consumer 306

Consumer Markdowns Advertising Promotions 306

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. Reduce markdowns and boost profits. Simplify inventory management for multi-location stores. Dont let inventory challenges hold you back.

Inventory Management 98

Inventory Management Management Markdowns Fulfillment 98

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Today’s promise engines have gotten smarter about transit time, carrier rates, inventory location and other factors. Ecommerce merchant teams invest significant time in analyzing factors such as free shipping thresholds, promotions, pricing and markdowns. The real complexity comes when we are looking at thousands of SKUs.

Merchant Services 258

Merchant Services Shipping Fulfillment Markdowns 258

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 31, 2023

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. While inventory distortion continues to be a monumental problem, the industry has made progress in a number of areas.

Markdowns 246

Markdowns Shipping Fulfillment Consumer 246

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.”.

Markdowns 148

Markdowns Promotions Consumer Fashion 148

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. These are opportunities that typically don’t get addressed.

Drop-Shipping 200

Drop-Shipping Merchant Services Fulfillment Shipping 200

Retail Smart Guys

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In marketing, they excel at optimizing product placement and store location while ensuring your branding resonates with current trends. Furthermore, they work on inventory efficiency—analyzing systems to minimize markdowns and maximize profits.

Markdowns 97

Markdowns Promotions Management Location 97

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%

Markdowns 162

Markdowns Discount Store Finance Apparel 162

Inside Retail

MARCH 15, 2022

Store grading – retail stores all come in different sizes and locations with varying customer demands: fashionability, location and price for example. Reduce markdown activity through planning width (number of options) and depth (units per option) of range. This is all managed by the store grading. More on this later.

Planning 130

Planning Markdowns Store Layout Location 130

Inside Retail

MAY 30, 2024

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.” In addition, Hirata said the company eventually plans to open permanent bricks-and-mortar locations. In fact, that’s a large part of what drew Hirata to the brand.

Markdowns 130

Markdowns Wholesale Planning Consumer 130

Wiser

AUGUST 25, 2020

You want your merchandisers on board with your strategy and ready to enter your locations to set up any displays as shoppers come back. 4: Use Promotions and Markdowns to Move Seasonal Inventory. We recommend using promotions and markdowns to move that inventory quickly. 5: Lean Into Omnichannel Retail.

Markdowns 120

Markdowns Payment Services Promotions Drop-Shipping 120

Retail Smart Guys

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In marketing, they excel at optimizing product placement and store location while ensuring your branding resonates with current trends. Furthermore, they work on inventory efficiency—analyzing systems to minimize markdowns and maximize profits.

Markdowns 64

Markdowns Promotions Management Location 64

Inside Retail

JUNE 20, 2023

By adjusting prices in real time based on this analysis, retailers can increase revenue, reduce markdowns, and remain competitive in a constantly changing market. The question is how customers will respond when they become aware that prices shown may change from day to day, depending on their location or the volume of other buyers.

Markdowns 130

Markdowns Inventory Management Marketing Promotions 130

Inside Retail

JANUARY 30, 2024

Salespeople on the shop floor can use these devices to seek a colleague’s assistance in locating a certain size or style of a product instead of leaving the customer alone while the salesperson finds it. That extends the opportunity for the salesperson to build a rapport with the customer and potentially upsell.

Loss Prevention 147

Loss Prevention Shrinkage Inventory Management Markdowns 147

Retail Adventures

JUNE 4, 2020

Remember, if you run an event in your physical location carry that same event over to online store as well. Be Prepared for Markdowns. A markdown strategy for every piece of merchandise that you purchase is a smart idea. Your receipt guarantees it.”

Markdowns 90

Markdowns Returns Promotions Planning 90