Merchandising Metrics

Membership Mother's Day Walmart WalmartPlus Mother’s Day is a big deal at Walmart and the chain is celebrating the 2023 holiday by giving away up to 20,000 one-year Walmart+ memberships to new moms during May. The giveaway is part of Walmart’s “Mother of All Savings Memberships” promotion, which will be included among the gifts distributed to new moms through the Pampers Hospital Gift Program.

Category Management Holiday Season Inventory management Logistics/Supply Chain Merchandising Predictive analytics This is the fifth in a series of articles from members of RetailWire’s BrainTrust panel speculating on coming retail trends and developments for 2023. Too many retailers had the bad habit of over-buying long before the pandemic created the supply chain chaos we are still living through. “Just in time” systems failed to prevent the overbuying problem.

Apparel Retail Consumer Marketing Inventory management Pricing Practices Shoe channel The North Face Vans VF Corporation Wall Street/Financials Facing a heightened promotional environment amid elevated inventories in the marketplace, VF Corp. has rejiggered its near-term plans to drive higher revenue and profit in the second half of its fiscal year ending March 2023. VF’s four core brands are Vans, The North Face, Timberland and Dickie’s.