Category Archives: Part 1: Overview/Planning

This sub-category encompasses an introduction to retailing, building and sustaining relationships in retailing, and strategic planning in retailing.

Do YOU Know When It Is OK to Raise Prices?

Having a superior pricing strategy and implementing that strategy properly are often the keys to profitability (see, for example, 1, 2, 3). With this in mind, take a look at the new E-report “2016 Pricing Regroup: To Hike Or Not To Hike” … Continue reading

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Videos on How YOU Can Do Better in Omnichannel

Supply chain management has become a lot more complex for the retailers that operate through multiple sales channels. Their goal is to provide the most seamless operations possible through an omnichannel strategy — as we have noted before (see, for … Continue reading

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Is the Store of the Future Already Here?

With the rapid technological advances in the digital marketplace, the stores of today — and the stores of the near future — usually operate and look much different than the stores of just ten or fifteen years ago. As Retail … Continue reading

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