by admin | Dec 20, 2021 | HR, Retail Strategy
In advance of the holiday season, the National Retail Federation (NRF) reported retailers will hire between 500,000 and 665,000 seasonal workers in November and December. At least some of retail’s 8.5 percent to 10.5 percent projected growth for holiday sales is...
by admin | Dec 12, 2021 | Holiday, HR, Resources, Retail Strategy
Taking on retail manager responsibilities is a big job at any time but especially during the holidays. Making an awful lot of people happy at the holidays doesn’t happen unless you have already put the effort in with your own team. When I was in college, I...
by admin | Dec 5, 2021 | HR, Retail Strategy, Statistics
Credit: iStock.com by Drazen Retail workers are leaving their jobs at a record pace, with 721,000 workers quitting in August alone, maintaining an industry high for employee turnover since April. What’s more, employers in the retail space that were already...
by admin | Dec 4, 2021 | HR, Resources, Retail Strategy
Ever been at a great dinner and used the salt instead of the pepper? The whole entree is ruined. This retail sales training blog is about peppering your approach to avoid the salt of insecurity. A colleague of mine, Carol Spiekerman posted this on her blog. I...
by admin | Nov 30, 2021 | HR, Industry, Retail Strategy
The tide is turning in retail. Despite staff and supply shortages that may burden shoppers and encumber stores during the holiday season, signs of growing optimism for the future abound. While last year the industry underwent a scourge of bankruptcies and...
by admin | Nov 20, 2021 | HR, Resources, Retail Strategy
Almost every retailer looks at employee scheduling as their most expensive operating cost. I see employees as an asset, not a liability, but that’s another post… Stores that were designed to run on six employees are now limping along on two…or even one....
