When China announced it would lift its international travel quarantine for the mainland in early January, Global Times reported the country’s online travel agencies saw a surge in searches and...
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Retailers have a love-hate relationship with markdowns. Love to quickly clear out unwanted inventory (and recoup at least some money) and hate not getting full price. Markdowns are virtually inevitable;...
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#5 in Our SaaS Merchandising Blog Series Your SaaS platform's competencies may be the only thing that changes more quickly than retail customers’ expectations. And nothing is transforming your retail...
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#4 in Our SaaS Merchandising Blog Series Software as a Service (SaaS) has transformed how organizations use software—and thus transformed the very nature of business. Several technology and market trends...
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#3 in Our SaaS Merchandising Blog Series It’s time for a SaaS retail revolution! The retail industry, like all business, is awash in unprecedented amounts of rich, real-time customer data....
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#2 in Our SaaS Merchandising Blog Series Right at our founding, we chose to build all our solutions—starting with our foundational demand-planning ForecastSmart product—on a Software as a Service (SaaS)...
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#1 in Our SaaS Merchandising Blog Series The retail industry has been slow to embrace Software as a Service (SaaS)—even as the SaaS paradigm has come to thoroughly dominate cloud...
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Retail and unintended consequences on nature… According to NASA, Global Warming is increasing at an unprecedented rate, and warming temperatures and a rise in ocean heights are almost inevitable. Due...
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Celebrating International Women's Week 2023 As International Women's Week 2023 comes to a close, we reflect on the progress made towards achieving gender equity and the road ahead. This year's...
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When it comes to merchandise financial planning, retailers are moving away from traditional, manual, and reactive approaches that often result in an overflow of inventory or lack of stocks across...
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Retailers today are facing a wild conundrum. On one hand, the costs of raw materials, retail spaces, labor wages, ocean freight charges, and every other variable with respect to the...
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During the last 18 months, consumer inflation accelerated in most developed and emerging economies. In the United States, the consumer price index (CPI) rose from 2.6% in March 2021 to...
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