TL;DR Summary:
Hammoq recommends prices based on what actually sells—helping thrift stores move more inventory without lowering value.
If your thrift store’s racks aren’t moving, it’s not always because items are priced too high or too low.
Most of the time, it’s because they’re priced wrong for demand.
🛑 A $12.99 jacket that should’ve been $9.99 sits for 4 weeks
🛑 A $4.99 pair of shoes that would’ve sold fast at $7.99 leaves margin on the table
🛑 Categories with declining demand remain stuck at old price points
Smart tagging = smart turnover.
Hammoq helps stores double their sell-through by using AI to recommend the right price for the right item—based on how your floor actually performs.
🧠 Why Thrift Stores Struggle With Sell-Through
The typical process looks like this:
- Staff price items using flat rates or cheat sheets
- Pricing doesn’t adjust to shifting demand
- Items that should fly off the floor linger
- Hot categories aren’t optimized for margin or speed
- Floors get cluttered → markdown cycles kick in → margin erodes
It’s not that stores price "badly."
It’s that they price without dynamic, data-backed logic.
The result? Inventory flow slows down—even when sourcing is strong.
💡 How Hammoq Helps Double Sell-Through
Hammoq solves this by giving your floor an AI-powered pricing analyst—one that works automatically for every item.
Here’s how it works:
Step 1: Load Photos or Barcodes
Upload photos of incoming donations or scan barcodes on returns and inventory.
Step 2: AI Analyzes Sell-Through and ASP Windows
Hammoq reviews:
- 30-day sales history → current demand pulse
- 90-day sales history → seasonal trends + consistent winners
- 365-day sales history → category performance across the year
It detects how fast different price points move in YOUR store—not someone else’s.
Step 3: Recommend the Right Price
Hammoq recommends tags that:
- Sell faster → improve cash flow
- Maintain or increase margin → protect profitability
- Adjust dynamically → no more outdated price lists
No spreadsheets. No guesswork. No staff debate.
Step 4: Auto-Generate Tag
Hammoq prints an optimized tag—ready for the floor.
✅ Key Takeaways:
- Use historical performance to drive smarter tags
Align pricing with actual shopper behavior—not static rules. - Stop overpricing slow categories—or underpricing hot ones
Move inventory at the price your market supports TODAY. - Improve margin and shelf speed at the same time
Higher velocity + higher ASP = stronger total revenue per rack.
🔁 Before vs. After Snapshot:
Before Hammoq:
- $9.99 flat for all denim → top brands sell too fast, others linger
- $4.99 flat for shoes → hot brands underpriced, budget pairs unsold
- $14.99 jackets → move slowly, need markdowns to clear
After Hammoq:
- Denim tagged at $12.99, $9.99, or $7.99 based on performance
- Shoes tagged $4.99–$14.99 based on brand and sell-through
- Jackets optimized to balance speed vs. margin → fewer markdowns
Result:
Racks turn faster, customers trust pricing, and margin improves.
📊 Why It Works Financially
Let’s say a store sells 1,000 items/week.
If 25% of those items currently linger too long or get marked down:
- Improving sell-through by 2x on those items = 250 more units sold at full price
- Margin saved from fewer markdowns = $2–5 per item → $500–1,250/week extra margin
- Over 52 weeks → $26K–$65K annual improvement—without adding inventory or staff.
🛍️ Perfect For:
- Multi-location thrift chains
- Franchise resale stores
- Donation centers scaling online and offline sales
- Any thrift retailer with:
- Slow-moving categories
- High markdown rates
- Floor space stuck with non-optimized pricing
- Slow-moving categories
🚀 What’s Next (How To):
Identify your 5 slowest categories
Use sell-through reporting from your POS.
Let Hammoq re-tag incoming items with AI pricing
Set it to review 30–90–365 days of performance per category.
Compare sell-through week over week
Watch how faster-moving tags change your floor v
