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Respondents who were interviewed lately on their spending forecasts were quite optimistic about their household incomes, buying power and the job market in general. They were planning to spend an average $196.31, a whopping...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Sports retailers have a special mission in life. They exist to help the winners win games, and to the extent that they provide the tools that allow winners to do what they do best,...
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Whether your footwear products appeal to upscale ladies, children, or casual wearers, the way to be successful in retail today is to focus on three things – the product, the customer, and the bottom...
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The apparel industry is very competitive is built around trends. What’s popular this year may not be popular next year. On top of that, the trends are seasonal. So apparel retailers have to be...
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Every retailer today knows that e-commerce is here to stay, but how important is web order fulfillment? If you don’t get this right, your e-commerce strategy will fail. ChainDrive offers these six keys to...
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Retail chain operations managers can make their stores and chains more profitable simply by understanding the retail product life cycle better. In general, there are five distinct life cycles for any retail product. Below...
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Eyewear retailers have a special relationship with their customers. Once a person needs glasses, they’ll require them for the rest of their lives. If you take care of your customers, you’ll keep them for...
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