Category Archives: Part 2: Ownership, Strategy Mix, Online, Nontraditional

This sub-category encompasses retail institutions by ownership type, retail institutions by store-based strategy mix, and Web, nonstore-based, and other nontraditional forms of retailing.

What Causes an Entrepeneur to Be Successful Or Unsuccessful?

Check out this infographic to see some of the factors that affect an entrepreneur’s level of success or failure.    

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Return Policies as a Shopping Satisfier

As this photo shows, good return policies are a key to contented, loyal customers. Everyone wants to feel that they are treated properly. For a lot more advice about retailing practices from Tony Kadysewski, click the image.  

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How Consumers Rate Mobile Shopping Experiences

Mobiquity recently commissioned a study on the mobile shopping experiences of U.S. customers at leading brick-and-mortar retailers.  The results are highlighted in this infographic.  

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