Retail & E-commerce / Merchandising
Markdown Rate MD%
How much of your selling price you gave up through price cuts.
The fork, why two teams get different numbers
Markdown rate is markdown dollars over sales, but WHICH sales and WHICH markdowns are contested.
In the Metric Library
- The full fork, both definitions worked all the way through
- The trap that makes the number lie, on a real export
- Every formula variant, spelled out
- The reconciliation anchor, what to tie it to and when to refuse
Reference: Retail merchandise-margin convention