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What’s Ahead for Category Management?

Category management is a merchandising process that focuses on the performance of an overall product category. The intent with this approach is to maximize total category sales and profit rather than that of individual brands. Shopper marketing involves understanding how consumers behave as … Continue reading →

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Insights from Sam’s Club’s Vice-President of Merchandising

Charles Redfield, Sam’s Club executive vice-president of merchandising, described some of the major business and career lessons that he has learned at a recent meeting of the Economic Club of Phoenix. As reported by the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona … Continue reading →

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“Sorry, Kim Kardashian, Wal-Mart Is More Popular Among the Facebook, Twitter Crowd”

The above title of a recent Forbes article may seem quite surprising. After all, the Karadashians are major celebrities in the social media world. And Wal-Mart is, well, a 50+ year-old company. 🙂 As Barbara Thau writes for Forbes: “It … Continue reading →

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