Inside Retail

JANUARY 26, 2022

New York fashion designer Lindsay Nicholas started her business seven years ago as a side hustle while working in marketing in Singapore. Of course, life doesn’t always turn out as we plan, and we wound up moving to Melbourne in 2017. We’re also not a brand that takes markdowns on stock after six weeks.

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Independent Retailer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The key lies in using solutions that drive business intelligence forward, such as inventory planning and demand forecasting software. Among them, a global supply chain crisis — rife with driver shortages and lengthy shipping times — buttressed by a lack of resources and skyrocketing costs was brought on by the Ukraine war.

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Wiser

AUGUST 25, 2020

Make sure everyone knows the plan—and is able to execute that plan—to ensure that you’ve got merchandiser support when you need it. 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 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. The forecast of future sales demand informs almost all of the decisions a retailer makes throughout the product journey: Planning.

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Retail Minded

AUGUST 27, 2022

Among them, a global supply chain crisis – rife with driver shortages and lengthy shipping. It’s even affecting the US retail giants, with Target recently admitting its plans to ‘right-size its. inventory’ by making additional markdowns across the board. inventory planning and purchasing, stock control and supply chain.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It was no longer enough to route orders to a handful of DCs and drop ship vendors. When it came to inventory planning and optimization, stores were planned, allocated and/or replenished, and transacted with their customers entirely separately from the digital channel. Checking inventory in a local store but not placing an order?

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Mass Relators

DECEMBER 12, 2022

“We believe the majority of these and other gross margin pressures are largely temporary, and we are confident in our plans to drive greater supply chain efficiencies moving forward.”. He announced plans for some 3,170 real estate projects in the U.S. He announced plans for some 3,170 real estate projects in the U.S.

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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. Shein is vertically integrated allowing it to go from design to shipping in as little as three days.

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Independent Retailer

AUGUST 19, 2022

More than two years after the global pandemic sparked supply chain chaos, shoppers are anticipating shipping delays and inventory challenges to hinder their annual retail indulgence. Consumers will only stop buying gifts when the shipping deadline for Christmas delivery has passed. Start Holiday Preparations Early.

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Wiser

JULY 30, 2019

You’ll see promotions in all shapes and sizes, from buy one get one free to a percent off to free shipping. . Tracking and predicting competitor behavior will help you plan your promotions—you’ll know whether the competitor will eat into your sales or if you can run a counter promotion to offset potential losses. Why do this?

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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 fulfillment technology? Order fulfilment options have expanded.

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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. Marks & Spencer plans to lean more into its food offerings in the future. It also allows a retailer to have a much larger product range without having to make a large investment to buy and hold more stock.

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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

Maintaining margins within business constraints while efficiently providing order fulfillment to customers is a tall order, especially considering each customer purchase requires a real-time fulfillment decision within a shifting context of inventory, demand, returns, delivery times, and shipping costs. That’s the billion dollar question.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In today’s market, putting the right fulfillment system in place gets you a competitive edge. How, when, and where the customer prefers to experience their product fulfillment affects the sourcing and shipping decisions. The shipping stage of the order fulfillment process flows naturally out of the processing stage.

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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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Retail Next

MARCH 3, 2020

Last year (2019) was undoubtedly the most eventful yet, with a number of major global players announcing plans to reduce the amount of plastic they use and make their packaging more recyclable, including Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Nestlé , Unilever , Aldi and Walmart , just to name a few. 1% for the Planet is the perfect example of this.

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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. This product is shipped to the store where the customer picks it up. Lower shipping costs. Saves time and money.

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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. What can the retailer learn from and improve?

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Retalon

JULY 4, 2018

These tools are not able to account for new products, categories, and markets, or used & exchanged items, let alone suggest accurate and tangible actions going forward. A Forrester research team surveyed retailers on what they plan to implement to support fulfillment efforts. Buy in-store, return to another store (46%).

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Retalon

AUGUST 20, 2019

– Ease and efficiency of taking products to market. You can also beef up fulfillment options so that customers can pick-up in local stores or ship directly from other stores, mirroring the convenience of online ordering. – Merchandise, Assortment, and Store planning. – Promotions, event and markdowns.

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Retalon

AUGUST 20, 2019

– Ease and efficiency of taking products to market. You can also beef up fulfillment options so that customers can pick-up in local stores or ship directly from other stores, mirroring the convenience of online ordering. – Merchandise, Assortment, and Store planning. – Promotions, event and markdowns.

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Retail Adventures

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Making the Golden Quarter work for you requires careful planning that, but even if you haven’t laid the groundwork for a big finish throughout the year, you can still reap the benefits of a solid holiday season. This year consider the following in your Golden Quarter planning: 1. Both of these retailers offer good plans.

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Retail Adventures

AUGUST 16, 2022

Making the Golden Quarter work for you requires careful planning. If you don’t want the hassle of shipping, then go the BOPIS route: Buy Online Pickup In Store – customers love curbside. Plan a monthly sales goal and set daily targets for sales, and even for specific products. It just makes sense to have a plan of action.

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Retail Prophet

JULY 18, 2022

If a single image has come to define the failure of global supply chains amid the Covid-19 crisis it’s that of the Ever Given – one of the world’s largest container ships – seized in a diagonal death grip inside the Suez Canal, heavy with more than twenty thousand units of cargo aboard. Slave laborers load cotton onto waiting ships.

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Retalon

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

For example, global supply chains have long been: Overproducing goods in foreign factories with lax labor laws Monopolizing finite raw materials in Third World countries Relying on trade agreements to keep international shipping cheap Using just-in-time inventory practices, taking the resilience of supply chains for granted.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

You’re gonna end up making some ill-advised purchases and then it seems like everything drop ships from factories. post so they if you remember back in the day wish was like very slow shipping like to 26 weeks. Scot: [32:58] Do they have infrastructure in the US like to do shipping and stuffers at all come straight from China.

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