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.

Retailers and the Minimum Wage

There has been a lot of discussion and debate recently about the impact of a raise in the federal minimum wage (to perhaps as much as $10.10 per hour, compared to the current $7.25) on retailers — both large and … Continue reading

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Tips for Offering a Better Customer Experience

After all of the recent data breach and deliveries problems that have been in the news, it’s time to get back to focusing on how to optimize the retail customer experience — and to recapturing customer trust. As Jeannie Walters, … Continue reading

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Global E-Commerce Still on the Rise — And Becoming Less North America-Centric

As we have reported before (click here, for example), online retailing has become a leading distribution channel worldwide; and we are now seeing a dramatic shift in the volume of online shopping regionally. From $1.06 trillion in 2012, global B2C … Continue reading

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