Category Archives: Part 8: Putting It All Together

This sub-category encompasses introlling and controlling the retail strategy.

Improving Company Relationships with Employees

Retailers face a huge amount of employee turnover — due to long hours and unappealing time schedules, some antagonistic customers, boredom, etc. This is one of the biggest problems in the industry. So what can be done to better motivate employees, … Continue reading

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What Do Shoppers Want?

Here is a very descriptive infographic that focuses on the future of retailing from a consumer perspective.   by Column Five Media. Check out our data visualization blog.  

Posted in Part 3: Targeting Customers and Gathering Information, Part 4: Store Location Planning, Part 5: Managing a Retail Business, Part 6: Merchandise Management and Pricing, Part 7: Communicating with the Customer, Part 8: Putting It All Together, Social Media and Retailing, Technology in Retailing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

A Toys “R” Us Tablet for Kids

Toys “R” Us recently announced that it would be introducing its own tablet for kids, exclusive to TRU, into the already crowded marketplace. As Ann Zimmerman reported for the Wall Street Journal: “In a bid to battle the ‘showrooming’ phenomenon … Continue reading

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