Category Archives: Part 6: Merchandise Management and Pricing

This sub-category encompasses developing and implementing merchandise plans, financial merchandise management, and pricing in retailing.

eMarketer’s September 2015 Retail Roundup

eMarketer is an excellent source of information beneficial to retailers. It even offers a FREE daily newsletter. eMarketer has just published its September 2015 Retail Roundup; “Consumers spend billions each year at retail, and retailers are the biggest digital ad spenders … Continue reading

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Distribution Tips to Enhance the Customer Experience

As we have written about before (see, for example, 1, 2, 3), offering a superior customer experience is a key aspect of how successful a retailer will be. Here are some more tips for providing an excellent customer experience, presented … Continue reading

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Better Understanding Digital Shoppers

Although online shopping growth continues to far outstrip that for traditional physical stores, more analysis still needs to be done to better understand the digital shopper.  As McKinsey’s Gadi BenMark and Maher Masri write:  “Companies have more data at their fingertips … Continue reading

Posted in Online Retailing, Part 1: Overview/Planning, Part 2: Ownership, Strategy Mix, Online, Nontraditional, Part 3: Targeting Customers and Gathering Information, Part 5: Managing a Retail Business, Part 6: Merchandise Management and Pricing, Part 7: Communicating with the Customer, Social Media and Retailing | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment