Category Archives: Part 5: Managing a Retail Business

This sub-category encompasses retail organizational structures, human resource management, financial operations management, and operational operations management.

What Consumers Want in Returning Items

Today, we consider what consumers want in returning items. And this is a topic that we have studied before. Reverse Logistics: How to Improve the Retail Returns Process. UPS to Aid Retailers in Return Process. How Shoppers Use the Return Option for Online Purchases. L.L. Bean’s Dominant … Continue reading

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Knowing How to Handle Difficult People

Why is Glassdoor’s 2018 Best U.S. Employers list so popular? Because it is based on opinions of real employees and their feelings about their work environment. Great firms equal happy employees. However, we may find ourselves in a not so … Continue reading

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Free Online Salary Surveys

As we have noted before realistic salary data are available. With our post  Looking for Retailing Salary Information?, we can review data for jobs in retailing. Now, we look at free online salary surveys from PayScale. Free Online Salary Surveys So, how about … Continue reading

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