Author: Mercy Gracy Antony
Retailers of all stripes profit by controlling two cycles–the buying cycle and the selling cycle. If you control one, you only have half control over your merchandising. If you control them both, you’ve got...
In 2019, even jewelry retailing has been touched by omni-channel retailing. What that means is, as a jeweler, you can’t rest on your brick-and-mortar laurels. You’ve got to appeal to your customer through multiple...
Managing retail operations holistically means focusing on each aspect of the business and managing each essential element of the operation effectively and efficiently. To be profitable, you can just focus on the business as...
Mobile point of sale is relatively new technology, but it is quickly becoming essential or retailers who want to remain competitive in an ever-increasing rapidly evolving retail environment. Here are six reasons to deploy...
In retail, the best communication tool available is the tool that allows the home office to communicate with store personnel and all levels in between in real time. ChainDrive’s Integrated Internal Messaging solution is...
Successful clienteling is not something that happens by accident. Retailers must strategize their customer relationships and get intentional about building them “from the ground up.” If you get this part of retailing right, you’re...
Online retail is driving brick-and-mortar companies out of business, and impacting several industries across the board. The Cheatsheet listed some of those business last year: Borders Books, Tower Records, and Circuit City, to name...
Wholesalers have a special mission in the pantheon of consumer goods movement. The business model is different than that of retailing. If you’re going to be a successful wholesaler, you need to understand how...
There is a big push in some circle to “decentralize” operations. This typically is spoken of in reference to department stores, but refers to some aspect of blockchain technology or some crypto-something lingo. The...
In February 2018, American Banker said point-of-sale (POS) lending was “hot.” It’s not any less hot now than it was then. With FICO scores at an all-time high, American consumers are poised to be...