Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 7, 2021

sustainability market is projected to reach $150 billion in sales by 2021, and nearly half of consumers say they would definitely or probably change their consumption habits to reduce their impact on the environment. Increase promotional effectiveness. Manage the entire lifecycle to reduce waste from the start.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 18, 2023

As part of the new multiyear agreement — which builds upon a partnership that started in 2016 — Academy will use the Revionics Base Price and Markdown solutions to not only optimize its pricing strategy but better manage inventory levels throughout the product lifecycle.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Here are some of the issues facing retailers — and ways that they can harness AI-powered pricing and promotions to cope with them productively. Similarly, online shoppers respond to different types of promotional offers, and obviously different promotional vehicles used to reach shoppers when shopping online.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 3, 2021

As other sectors, including travel and hospitality, experienced online commerce surges, the retail market shifted at a more leisurely pace. It’s not surprising, then, that shopper responsiveness to digital promotional offers has increased, with 55% saying they are extremely or very likely to respond to a smartphone or mobile app offer v.

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Independent Retailer

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This is why inventory management is key, especially as retailers look to deal with unsold merchandise after the holidays. “Retailers must pay close attention to consumption patterns and build flexibility into their inventory management to address the changing needs of consumers.” Offer Promotions & Product Markdowns.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Here are some of the issues facing retailers — and ways that they can harness AI-powered pricing and promotions to cope with them productively. Similarly, online shoppers respond to different types of promotional offers, and obviously different promotional vehicles used to reach shoppers when shopping online.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 22, 2022

Decisions about markdowns, promotions and inventory allocation were limited and made in tried and tested ways. Growth is now driven by the more complex dynamics of customer acquisition and retention, and digital marketing has introduced a new set of variable costs. Lessons from the Digitization of the Trading Floor.

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Retalon

APRIL 25, 2017

Getting your product pricing right is absolutely critical to customer cross-channel experience, but the promise of unified price, promotion and markdown optimization is hard to achieve. In this report: Market Definition. Market Description. Market Direction. Market Analysis. Market Introduction.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 3, 2023

This was especially evident on Black Friday, when many merchants offered steep markdowns to compete. Web and API Scraping Web and API scraping are often used by competitors to undercut retailers’ pricing and promotions. Fake Account Creation Bots can create fake accounts at scale which are then used to abuse retail promotions.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2023

Managing them correctly is just as important as any other part of the customer journey. These include not just costly shipping and processing fees but also the extra promotions or liquidations needed to move excess inventory. When it’s out of season, they have to do markdowns, so it starts a vicious cycle.

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Wiser

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Promotions influence shopper behavior , and consumers are conditioned to search for the best deals and prioritize brands and retailers who markdown products more often than the competition. Examples of TPRs include the standard dollars-off markdown, limited-time coupons, contests, rebates, and more.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 1, 2021

“We want to be the first port of call for brand-conscious and value-conscious Gen Z and millennial consumers,” said Justin Seskin, one of TheDOM.com’s co-founders, along with Thrills director Howard Blend and It Works managing director Paul Downs. . Everyone might go 30 per cent off on their first markdown, but their reach is limited.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Accenture’s AI.Retail platform — which helps retailers better utilize data and artificial intelligence to optimize common operations such as customer acquisition, pricing and promotions, assortment and supply chain — can now be deployed on Google Cloud.

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Merchant Services Markdowns Store Operations Planning 290

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Get ready, get excited, retailers and customers alike, the 2D barcode, a compact square label with splotches and spaces that encode up to 350X more data than a traditional UPC (4,000 characters) will have a significant impact on managing the business and delivering better customer experiences. Doesn’t that sound amazing?!

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Merchant Services Inventory Management Grocer Customer Experience 279

Retail Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The UK’s cost of living squeeze is making Millennials and younger demographics more sensitive to pricing and promotions, the latest research from antuit.ai , the leader in SaaS Artificial Intelligence (AI) demand forecasting solutions, reveals.

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Markdowns Promotions Consumer Fashion 147

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ecommerce has been growing 10% to 15% every year and that was exacerbated during COVID-19,” said Natalie Kotlyar, National Managing Partner; Industry Groups, Retail & Consumer Products Industry National Leader, at BDO in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. That means communication with the consumer, not markdowns.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2023

Target Invests in Price and Speed to Attract Shoppers Target ended Q4 with inventory 3% lower than in 2021, a sign that the retailer has managed to overcome the excesses it struggled with through the first half of 2022. during Q4, but they were up 0.6% at its flagship banner and up 5.8% during Q4, but they were up 0.6%

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

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. As a result, consumer behavior has become harder to predict across multiple locations, which makes zone pricing a must for retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The Trouble With Promise Engines The promise engine market is filled with innovative solutions that excel at generating precise promises. Ecommerce merchant teams invest significant time in analyzing factors such as free shipping thresholds, promotions, pricing and markdowns.

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Merchant Services Shipping Fulfillment Markdowns 257

Wiser

MAY 20, 2020

It’s a complex decision that involves customer behavior, marketing, supply chain and inventory management, and other functional areas. Everyday low pricing is a pricing strategy in which brands and retailers promise consumers that their prices will be consistently low, as opposed to having sporadic discounts or promotions.

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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

One way that OTB funds can be managed is by categories, such as women’s wear in the apparel department. Anticipate the activities for the sales period: If you are aware of upcoming promotional activities, you’ll need to adjust to reflect demand accordingly. Managing inventory levels is key to reducing carrying costs.

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Wiser

APRIL 13, 2021

You also control the assortment, the marketing, the sales funnel, and everything else. There are times when you want to switch up prices more often, such as a promotional period or holiday season. Amazon is known for having the lowest-in-the-market prices, and sellers here are expected to be priced low as well.

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Markdowns Promotions Drop-Shipping Advertising 148

Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Similarly, with real-time integration between the digital shelf and the retailer’s online offer, consistency of pricing, product spec and promotion can be consistently managed more dynamically to improve CX and drive conversions.

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Inside Retail

JULY 4, 2023

That’s particularly true of the athletic footwear and apparel business in a growth market like China, where there are a lot of new entrants and the early movers are beginning to seriously sweat the competition. Nike, the market leader, is shrugging it off. Adidas, in its latest release, for the first quarter, reported an 11.9

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365 Retail

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Retailers are increasingly embracing AI-based solutions for full lifecycle pricing, that provide price, promotion and markdown optimization that keeps pace with rapidly changing competitor, market and shopper behaviours that cannot be predicted by just looking at the past.

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Retalon

MARCH 7, 2022

Retail CIOs can use this special edition to advise the business areas on how to cut through market. Retalon, a Toronto-based retail AI company, has been recognized for advancing retail technology in supply chain and merchandising in 2022.

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Retalon

OCTOBER 8, 2020

But getting the biggest return on that investment, especially in today’s tough retail environment, requires a more nuanced, data-driven approach to inventory management than most retailers are used to. The way you manage the inventory investments for your stores, warehouses, and distribution centers determines your success as a retailer.

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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

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. Unfortunately, approximations often lead to lost sales, drastic markdowns, and unfulfilled potential. Reduced markdowns.

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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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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. Retailers may cluster these substitute products together to manage inventory more efficiently. It is an effective way to think about assortment.

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Retalon

APRIL 27, 2021

Although e-commerce gets all of the attention, the past two decades of technological change have transformed every aspect of the retail business — from planning, inventory, pricing, and promotions — all the way down to customer service and the in-store experience. to optimize inventory for gross margins.

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Retalon

JULY 25, 2018

Retail CIOs can leverage the Hype Cycle to: Advise the business areas on how to cut through market hype in order to best prioritize retail technology investments and. Distributed Order Management. Customer-Centric Merchandising and Marketing. Unified Price, Promotion and Markdown Optimization. The Hype Cycle.

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

New ultra fast fashion competitors like ASOS and Boohoo entered the market and did what Forever 21 did but better. Not only are these retailers fast to market with their trendy designs they are also skilled eCommerce operators. Like Sears and Neiman Marcus, Forever 21 simply did not react to changes in the market fast enough.

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Fast Fashion Fashion Apparel Department Stores 98

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.

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Retail Adventures

JANUARY 1, 2024

Discuss products, policies, promotions – anything store associates need to know that day. Manage your customer response times. Don’t wait too long to take a markdown. Marketing 35. Choose a professional email marketing company to create your campaigns. Take time to visit other retail stores for ideas.

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