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by admin | Aug 20, 2024 | Footwear, Industry, News, Shoe Market, Skateboard
Brian Krauss, co-founder of IPATH. Courtesy of IPATH Maria Contino of Rosenthal & Rosenthal sits down with Brian Krauss, co-founder of IPATH, the iconic skate brand slated to make a major comeback later this year. The two talk about changes in the...
by admin | Aug 16, 2024 | Apparel /Fashion, News, Streetwear
Customers shopping at Supreme’s store in Shanghai. (Getty Images) Streetwear is by no means dead, but its customers are changing. Today they’re embracing a diverse wardrobe that mixes logo T-shirts with heritage brands and traditional menswear or luxury....
by admin | Aug 14, 2024 | Brick & Mortar, Customer Experience, Customer Loyalty, Data Driven Performance, E-Commerce, Opinion, Retail Economy, Retail Strategy
Credit: Getty Images by vittaya25 Despite recent progress in reducing inflation, prices are still high and consumers remain under pressure. Excess savings accumulated during the pandemic have been depleted for a substantial part of the population and credit card...
by admin | Aug 12, 2024 | Brick & Mortar, HR, Resources, Retail Strategy, Sales Training
How to motivate retail employees … It’s a subject retailers routinely ask about. My answer is always the same: You don’t. That might sound strange to hear from a motivational speaker, so let me explain. You can try to motivate a retail employee with...
by admin | Aug 10, 2024 | Community, News, Surf
The town of Lahaina, one year after a wildfire tore through it. Photo: YouTube//Screenshot In the first weeks of August, 2023, fires broke out on the island of Maui. It was clear very quickly that they would be bad, and bad they were. By August 8, officials...
by admin | Aug 8, 2024 | Accounting and Business Services, Data Driven Performance, Point of Sale, Resources, Retail Strategy
Entering purchase orders is one of the tasks most retailers hate doing. Just thinking about working on it is already exhausting, especially since most retailers want to be on the sales floor with customers. However, you might not realize that having all your...
by admin | Aug 4, 2024 | Brick & Mortar, Competitions, News, Olympics
The surf competition at the 2024 Olympics takes place at Teahupo’o, Tahiti, French Polynesia. Photo by Azathoth Pics / Stock.adobe.com. Gabriel Medina’s name hit the mainstream this week, reaching far beyond the surf community during the surf competition at the...
by admin | Aug 2, 2024 | Community, Industry, News, Opinion, Retail Strategy, Skateboard, Skateboard Film Review
MOVIE INFO A group of skaters unite to save their local skateshop. Genre: Comedy Original Language: English Director: Ryan Peimer, Sarah Tang, Zack Whyel Producer: Curt Braden, Jerod Jacobs, Sarah Tang Writer: Zack Whyel...
by admin | Jul 30, 2024 | Brick & Mortar, HR, Resources, Retail Strategy
Retail managers must find effective ways to motivate teams and celebrate their successes to maintain high performance and meet sales goals. Only when you can answer an associate’s internal question, “What’s in it for me?” can you move the...
by admin | Jul 24, 2024 | Brick & Mortar, HR, Resources, Retail Strategy
Hiring in retail is tricky. As a result, the good people behind Outdoor Industry Jobs are often asked about best practices for getting good candidates, and they wanted me to share the following 4 possible strategies to help find and hire top talent: Brag. A...
