Behavioral Category Management

According to Avail Intelligence: “Behavioral merchandising means to observe and understand the behavior of each individual shopper as they click through the online store, compare it with similar data on all other shoppers, and draw conclusions to deliver relevant, personalized product recommendations.”
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CrossCap: An Integrated Retailing Blog

According to CrossCap: “Retail marketers possess an ever-increasing need for a constant one-view of merchandising, marketing, and store operations. This very need is what inspired CEO, Craig Bushert, to found CrossCap in 2001: to help senior-level marketing executives manage their marketing investments. Driven to provide a solution that addresses the difficulties of channel management, one-view marketing, and marketing effectiveness, Bushert began developing CrossCap’s ‘real time’ Marketing and Media Management tool that helps major corporations and marketing departments do just that.”
Check out CrossCap’s Retail Marketing Blog.
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Effective Markdown Strategies

Jane Fazzalari of JDA Software discusses retail business planning processes as they relate to effective markdown strategies.
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