Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 19, 2021

We have high demand and low supply, so there are fewer markdowns now,” Kotlyar added. “I Kotlyar agreed that the increasing complexity of the customer journey requires brands and retailers to be more thoughtful and multi-faceted with their marketing strategies. That means communication with the consumer, not markdowns.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2021

With increasing numbers of retailers passing on rising production costs – prompted by supply chain tension and labour market shortages – to the consumer, the CBI warns shoppers face the biggest price rises in 30 years this Christmas. Meanwhile, the British Retail Consortium’s monthly monitor showed shop prices grew +0.3%

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Today’s promise engines have gotten smarter about transit time, carrier rates, inventory location and other factors. The Trouble With Promise Engines The promise engine market is filled with innovative solutions that excel at generating precise promises. The real complexity comes when we are looking at thousands of SKUs.

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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. This is particularly helpful for someone bringing a new product to market, where there is no sales history.”

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

I’m an avid runner so naturally I’ve made this analogy, and it’s a great one to describe to retailers who are mired in the minutiae of pricing — especially as the market fluctuates in year two of the pandemic while Amazon makes a different move to any SKU multiple times a day and the supply chain is riddled with hiccups in every link of the chain.

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Retalon

MAY 10, 2024

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. Ultimately, a well-aligned OTB plan enhances the company’s ability to navigate market changes, leverage opportunities, and sustain financial health over time.

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Retail Smart Guys

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Particularly in your inventory, which is the biggest expense every retail store has, establishing the correct level of inventory, on a department by department basis, and a location by location basis, is the most important job in retail. Proper inventory levels in all classes, at all locations, are ensured. Ace the list now!

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Retail Smart Guys

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Also, it oversees purchasing items from suppliers until they are sold to the market. Also, lacking knowledge of your product availability and location can disappoint your target audiences and cause you to lose their loyalty. Finally, we’ll help you reduce markdowns to grow your profitability.

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Retail Smart Guys

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Next, they are proficient in marketing your business. They are knowledgeable in proper placements of your products and better store locations, skilled in amplifying your branding and messaging, and up-to-date in all of these retail trends. Third, they are effective in making your inventory efficient.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Challenges in Demand Forecasting Leading to Lost Market Share. Retailers who rely on approximated demand disappoint customers, bleed profits, and lose market share to more tuned-in competitors. Consider just a few things that change from year to year: Changes in product mix Channels and locations open, close, or move.

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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.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Drastic Markdowns. Last minute markdowns that offload stock at a loss. Inventory storage, overstock management, ROI lost to markdowns, even lost sales due to stockouts, are all tangible costs of bad inventory. This means retailers can pinpoint high and low performing products for each specific location.

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Wiser

JULY 14, 2020

You can’t create a product without understanding where it fits into the market. It comes about as a result of deliberate decisions from your company’s leadership and emergent decisions that arise from ever-changing market conditions. This strategy is best when a product has high competition or is a new entrant to an established market.

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Retalon

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The pressure for transformation is coming from all sides, as consumers expect a more streamlined shopping experience, workers expect flexibility and modernity, and competitors like Amazon win more market share using cutting edge tech as their advantage. Why invest in pricing and promotions?

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Retalon

OCTOBER 8, 2020

And at the end of the sales season (or at the end of a product’s lifecycle), markdowns you set to clear out excess inventory can easily wipe out the product’s lifecycle profitability. They quickly learn to time their purchases for the inevitable markdowns rather than buying products during the main lifecycle.

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Retalon

MARCH 2, 2021

What sizes should you offer for each product at each location? If you run out of stock on winter jackets at your busy locations, you will not have an accurate gauge as to what your true demand was last year and you will repeat the same mistake in your forecast for next year. . For example your assortment, operations, marketing, etc.).

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Retalon

MAY 25, 2020

High-low pricing is often applied to brand new products that are just being introduced to the market (e.g. This strategy of incremental markdowns is also used as a product is nearing the end of its season. Loss Leader and Market Penetration Strategies. So when is this strategy most useful? a new smartphone, new video game, etc).

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Mass Relators

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Despite challenges in the labor market, our pharmacists and store teams were able to meet the unprecedented volumes for COVID and flu immunizations, COVID testing and other clinical services, which clearly demonstrates our Lean work to free up capacity is paying off.”. “In Revenue rose to $6.23 Heyward Donigan. “We

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Retalon

APRIL 26, 2021

Product clustering (or grouping) is an increasingly common technique that leading retailers use to manage their planning, inventory, pricing, promotions, and markdowns. In short, while incredibly useful in the moment, virtually all product clusters become less relevant to the company’s actual performance as market conditions change. .

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Retalon

APRIL 14, 2021

It needs to be relevant to the current (and upcoming trends), as well as sensitive to the unique geo0demographics of your channels and locations. Wide assortment breadth allows retailers to appeal to bigger demographics, but make it more difficult to appeal to more dedicated and loyal niche markets. What is deep assortment in retail?

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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. But they need to be the right stores, in the right location, with the right services," said Rowe. 57% of Amazon’s unit sales in come from third party sellers on its platform. Do you like this content?

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Retalon

DECEMBER 17, 2021

This creates internal competition between products instead of pulling customers, revenue and market share from the retail businesses’ external competitors. The overstocks of cannibalized products taking up shelf space force retailers into unplanned promotions and end-of-season markdowns to clear the excess inventory.

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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. The desire to ship even ground service from stores to deliver more orders within two business days is another customer experience-focused market driver.

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Retalon

AUGUST 22, 2023

But solely relying on the rearview mirror limits agility in adapting to changes in consumer behavior, emerging trends, and market conditions. Modernizing rigid legacy systems: Most established retailers rely on inflexible legacy tech stacks that can’t respond quickly to market changes.

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Mass Relators

MARCH 17, 2022

In addition, during the year, we completed the initial rollout of DG Fresh, executed more than 2,900 real estate projects, including the opening of our 18,000th store and 50 standalone pOpshelf locations, and launched new initiatives focused on health and international expansion.”. in the fourth quarter of 2021 compared to 22.2%

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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

direct-to-consumer e-commerce orders), retailers now have to worry about fulfilling orders across multiple complex channels and B&M locations. And yet, failing to live up to consumer expectations can be just as deadly — especially when retail behemoths like Amazon are gobbling up market share. Centralizing fulfillment.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Retailers carry tens or hundreds of thousands of SKUs, far too many for buyers to accurately forecast every product at each channel/location. Retailers run costly markdowns to clear out overstocks, and out of stock merchandise leads to lost sales. connecting marketing with merchandising). Key Takeaways.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Retailers carry tens or hundreds of thousands of SKUs, far too many for buyers to accurately forecast every product at each channel/location. Retailers run costly markdowns to clear out overstocks, and out of stock merchandise leads to lost sales. connecting marketing with merchandising). Key Takeaways.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Retailers carry tens or hundreds of thousands of SKUs, far too many for buyers to accurately forecast every product at each channel/location. Retailers run costly markdowns to clear out overstocks, and out of stock merchandise leads to lost sales. connecting marketing with merchandising). Key Takeaways.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In today’s market, putting the right fulfillment system in place gets you a competitive edge. As mentioned earlier, in its simplest form, order fulfillment is the physical process of getting a purchased product from a storage location to the customer. The fact is that no two locations have the same product demand.

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Retalon

APRIL 27, 2021

Traditionally, retailers have treated forecasting, planning, pricing, inventory, and promotions (marketing) as completely separate domains, often with competing mandates. Promotions can increase foot traffic and sales of market basket items, while simultaneously cannibalizing sales from a variety of other SKUs.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

All costs associated with the transfer — from logistics and store capacity to demographic diversity and the sizes and colors most likely to sell at the specific location — are incorporated automatically. In-Stock Percent. But for most retailers, the restocking process doesn’t begin until inventory starts to run low at a specific store.

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Retail Adventures

JANUARY 1, 2024

This is especially important if your store is located in an area where people tend to walk, and areas populated with restaurants and bars. Don’t wait too long to take a markdown. Marketing 35. Choose a professional email marketing company to create your campaigns. Light your window displays at night. Measure your results.

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Retalon

MARCH 9, 2021

Introducing new products creates an exciting opportunity to attract new customers and reinforce your presence in the market. Low prices leave little room for promotions or end-of-lifecycle markdowns. No two markets are alike. Pricing for market penetration. Ten new product pricing strategies that work. Price skimming.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

All costs associated with the transfer — from logistics and store capacity to demographic diversity and the sizes and colors most likely to sell at the specific location — are incorporated automatically. In-Stock Percent. But for most retailers, the restocking process doesn’t begin until inventory starts to run low at a specific store.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

All costs associated with the transfer — from logistics and store capacity to demographic diversity and the sizes and colors most likely to sell at the specific location — are incorporated automatically. In-Stock Percent. But for most retailers, the restocking process doesn’t begin until inventory starts to run low at a specific store.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Instead of only shipping to customers’ homes, retailers let online customers shop from their local and online store’s inventory and pick up their orders from their closest brick-and-mortar location the same day. Store-specific information about curbside or in-store pickup locations. Payment, return, and exchange policies.

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