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Tag Archives: Wal-Mart
Big Retailers Opening Smaller Stores
As we reported last year, many big-box retailers have been adding smaller stores to appeal to different market segments. Wal-Mart is one of those that is actively following this approach. In 2013 alone, the firm plans to open 115 small-format … Continue reading
Posted in 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 customer expectations, customer service, inventory management, location, market segment, merchandising, multichannel, Neighborhood Market, opportunity, segmentation, small stores, strategy, success, trends, Wal-Mart
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Insights from Sam’s Club’s Vice-President of Merchandising
Charles Redfield, Sam’s Club executive vice-president of merchandising, described some of the major business and career lessons that he has learned at a recent meeting of the Economic Club of Phoenix. As reported by the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona … 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 5: Managing a Retail Business, Part 6: Merchandise Management and Pricing, Part 7: Communicating with the Customer, Part 8: Putting It All Together, Retail Executive Interviews
Tagged career, Charles Redfield, customer expectations, customer loyalty, customer service, experiential retailing, global, information, inventory management, location, logistics, merchandising, multichannel, opportunity, relationship, retail analytics, Sam Walton, Sam's Club, segmentation, shopping, strategy, success, trust, W.P. Carey, Wal-Mart
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“Sorry, Kim Kardashian, Wal-Mart Is More Popular Among the Facebook, Twitter Crowd”
The above title of a recent Forbes article may seem quite surprising. After all, the Karadashians are major celebrities in the social media world. And Wal-Mart is, well, a 50+ year-old company. 🙂 As Barbara Thau writes for Forbes: “It … Continue reading
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