Category Archives: Part 7: Communicating with the Customer

This sub-category encompasses establishing and maintaining a retail image, and promotional strategy.

Apps for Bricks-and-Mortar Firms

Being a store owner/manager can be demanding on your time, resources, and energies. There are so many responsibilities; and it likely seems that often there aren’t enough hours in the day. Technology has helped to make many mundane tasks more efficient … Continue reading

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Our Six-Part Series on Retail Pricing Tips

Recently, we published a six-part series on retail pricing practices and offered several tips. Here, in one place ( 🙂 ), are links to each part of the series: Pricing & Small Retailers: Questions to Consider – Part 1 Pricing & … Continue reading

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Can Pricing in the Mid-Range Succeed?

This is a difficult question for some retailers — given the popularity of discounters and luxury retailers for two different customer segments in the marketplace. AND many retailers seem nervous to be in the mid-range. Yet, as Anthonia Akitunde (founder, … Continue reading

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