Should Your Department Store Be Smaller?
Earlier this year, J.C. Penney announced it wanted to make its department stores smaller. We can understand why. There are a lot of pressures pushing back against large department stores. Here are just a...
Earlier this year, J.C. Penney announced it wanted to make its department stores smaller. We can understand why. There are a lot of pressures pushing back against large department stores. Here are just a...
Merchandising is the fine art of showcasing your products so that you sell more of them. It’s more than just putting products on a shelf, but it does entail that. For sporting goods retailers,...
Managing a retail chain is loaded with challenges. There are so many moving parts that have to be managed that it can’t all be done by one person. However, with the right retail operation...
When it comes to home decor retail, if you want to be profitable, you’ve got to manage your operations from top to bottom and inside out. The following tips will help you improve your...
Department stores have many challenges that are retailers don’t face. One of the primary challenges is managing multiple lines of inventory for the various departments within your store. It’s sort of like having multiple...
Retailers in the sporting goods sector have very specific types of concerns that other types of retailers may not have to deal with. That’s why ChainDrive has a special operations management solution for just...
Footwear retailers have a few special considerations that other retail store chains do not contend with. Size selections alone are enough to drive a retail store manager or chain operations manager insane. Below are...
In June 2018, 49% of the world’s Internet users were in Asia. Only 8.2% were in North America. However, Europe had 16.8%, and Africa had 11%. What do these percentages mean in terms on...
Warehouse management isn’t rocket science. But it’s not easy without the right warehouse management system software either. If you want your warehouse to be more efficient so that your retail operations can be more...
Operations management for a large department store, especially for a chain of large department stores, can be quite a challenge. When you sell merchandise in many different product categories–such as sports, clothing, toys, furniture,...