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Is Price Matching Working — Or a Work in Progress?
As we have noted before, some store-based retailers, such as Target and Best Buy, have stepped up their price-matching efforts in an attempt to fend off customer defections to online competitors. But this approach has it downsides, too. This is … Continue reading
Posted in Online Retailing, Part 3: Targeting Customers and Gathering Information, Part 6: Merchandise Management and Pricing, Part 7: Communicating with the Customer, Video Clips (non-career)
Tagged Best Buy, competition, customer expectations, customer loyalty, experiential retailing, inventory management, location, matching, merchandising, multichannel, online shopping, price, pricing, Target, Toys "R" Us, video
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Eat Fresh at Subway
Subway has become a global fast-food phenomenon — with more than 37,000 locations worldwide. Although it is famous for “Jared” (the real consumer who lost a lot of weight eating Subway heros) and the “$5 dollar foot long,” Subway is a … Continue reading
Posted in Career Useful Information, Careers in Retailing, Global Retailing, Part 1: Overview/Planning, Part 2: Ownership, Strategy Mix, Online, Nontraditional, 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
Tagged competition, customer expectations, customer loyalty, customer service, entrepreneur, fast food, Fred DeLuca, global, location, merchandising, planning, pricing, promotion, segmentation, Subway, success
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Retailing: From A to Z 