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“Prepping Your Retail Location for Peak Season Success” by Beth Krantz via Total Retail

by admin | Sep 16, 2023 | Brick & Mortar, Customer Experience, News

Credit: iStock / Getty Images Plus by Dragon Images As we transition from Back to School to Black Friday and full-scale holiday shopping, foot traffic in stores continues to rise. Shopping-related destinations started the year off with a 20 percent increase in...

“The New Retail Space Race” by Sanford Stein via The Robin Report

by admin | Sep 11, 2023 | Brick & Mortar, Commercial Real Estate, News, Retail Strategy

All you contrarians unite: Store-based retail is very much alive — even on fire. In fact, according to real estate services firm CBRE, the rate of available retail real estate fell to 4.8 percent in the second quarter, the lowest level in 18 years. And as...

“Tech Tools That Can Create More Interactive and Informative In-Store Navigation” by Sajid Mohamedy via Total Retail

by admin | Sep 7, 2023 | Brick & Mortar, Customer Experience, News, Opinion, Resources, Retail Strategy, Retail Technologies

Credit: Getty Images by Busakorn Pongparnit If you were to sit and watch a video of your customers browsing your store, you would undoubtedly see a mix of those who know exactly what they want and can intuitively find it, combined with a sea of shoppers baffled by the...

“Using a proactive pricing strategy to increase profitability” by Jeff Wissink & Stephen Wyss via Cohn Reznick blog

by admin | Sep 3, 2023 | Accounting and Business Services, Brick & Mortar, News, Retail Strategy

The pandemic wreaked havoc on the global economy, creating an inflationary business environment that adversely affected material, labor, and transportation costs. To preserve margins, organizations were forced to raise prices and pass those cost increases on to the...

“Tackling Rising Shrink: Strategies to Combat Shoplifting and Employee Theft in Retail Stores” by Bob Phibbs via The Retail Doctor Blog

by admin | Sep 2, 2023 | Apparel /Fashion, Brick & Mortar, News, Retail Crime, Retail Strategy

Shoplifting and employee theft are rising; they make up what retailers call “shrink.”Loss prevention is a broad category used to encompass disappearing merchandise from shoplifting customers and employees not ringing up merch correctly, not checking...

“How Can Retailers Attract the Digital Generation?” by Jasmine Glasheen via The Robin Report

by admin | Aug 26, 2023 | Brick & Mortar, HR, Retail Strategy

When did a career in retail become so unappealing for young folks? Twenty years ago, a position in frontline retail was one of the best jobs a young person could hope to get. Yet today, a staggering 87 percent of retail leaders are worried about talent...