The sources of expertise and insights about how best to arrange products on grocery store shelves to encourage purchases have …
In Cutting Out Category Captains, Grocers Are Making Their Own Shelf Decisions
06 Monday Apr 2020
What’s Really Responsible for the Retail Apocalypse?
02 Thursday Apr 2020
In current jargon, the phrase the “retail apocalypse” refers to the vast closures of stores throughout the world. Over the …
Collaborating More Widely to Provide Expanding Shipping Options
20 Friday Mar 2020
Delivery services are convenient, easy, and appealing—for consumers, that is. For providers, they can be challenging, expensive, and frustrating, but …
Camp Plans to Earn Revenues, Even Without Selling Toys
18 Wednesday Mar 2020
When it comes to toy stores, the concept of experiential retail is pretty hard to distinguish from the offerings available …
For Walmart, It’s the Supercenters, Stupid
16 Monday Mar 2020
Posted in Chapter 06: Retail Market Strategy
It might sound strange, in the e- and mobile commerce era, to hear the Walmart CEO claim that bigger stores …
Managing the Sales Force and the Merchandise at Old Navy
12 Thursday Mar 2020
As Old Navy works to make it easier for consumers to buy, the jobs performed by the employees tasked with …
Avoiding Labor Laws by Using Technology to Replace Human Cashiers
10 Tuesday Mar 2020
Through decades of effort by labor unions and activists, retail workers in France earned the right to a day of …
Madewell’s Denim-Led Success
06 Friday Mar 2020
It’s a little like A Star Is Born, but in the fashion industry. Whereas J.Crew remains the parent company of …
Consumers Are Learning How to Respond to Sales Strategies
04 Wednesday Mar 2020
We previously wrote about some of the ethically questionable tactics that online retailers might use to get consumers to buy …
Amazon Returns Are Getting Easier—And More Environmentally Friendly
02 Monday Mar 2020
Amazon is a lot of things to a lot of people, but one thing that it has never been able …