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The Data Dilemma with Retail Pricing and How to Untangle it

Retail TouchPoints

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). This is your starting point and your job is to build up and improve it.

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Recharge Your Digital Pricing Strategies with Data Science

Retail Focus

Fortunately, there is well-established, proven science-based technology that enables retailers to offer carefully crafted prices, promotions and markdowns in online as well as brick-and-mortar channels. Let’s look at three ways that data science can help retailers thrive in a highly competitive multi-channel environment.

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What is Price Management and Optimization?

Retalon

Price optimization and price management are terms that often are used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing. When used properly, both price management and price optimization can substantially affect a retailer’s profitability. What is price optimization?

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2023: Ring in Retail Profits by Stopping Automated Threats

Retail TouchPoints

As consumers faced higher prices at the gas pump, grocery stores and other places, many cut back on their spending, increasing the competition among retailers. This was especially evident on Black Friday, when many merchants offered steep markdowns to compete. ATO attacks cost retailers millions of dollars each year.

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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? Keeping in mind as well the need to optimize their supply chain fulfillment to meet consumer delivery expectations while managing parcel carrier costs?

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How made-on-demand manufacturing is transforming the fashion industry

Inside Retail

According to Lee, for retailers, the process of storing and managing inventory involves significant expenses such as rent for the store and warehouse, transportation costs, and labour expenses. There’s no rush for them to always get rid of any markdowns. The retailer doesn’t sit on stock,” added Dean.

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Putting an End to the $50B Overstock Problem with Advanced Analytics

Retalon

Some retailers are facing backlash over images showing piles of unsold inventory that have been burnt or destroyed. This overstock issue is not new, and retailers have tried to manage their unsold goods through donations and resellers, but there is simply too much inventory. Billion in overstocks. Incentives A current U.S.