Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Founder and CEO of the Retail Doctor Group, Brian Walker told Inside Retail that an increase in interest rates tends to slow down sales, cash flow, productivity and profitability across different retail sectors. Beyond a drop in consumer demand and spending, there’s a number of other areas where retailers are being impacted by rising rates.

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Inside Retail

JULY 28, 2024

Kontopoulos described his “exceptional brand experience journey” with the luxury fashion label where the staff prepared garments he flagged interest in and match them with prospective upsells – and had the changeroom ready and merchandised for when he transited through. “I’d

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The appointment of Amanda Bardwell as Woolworths Group’s next managing director and CEO, effective September 1, marks a historic moment for the parent company of Woolworths Supermarkets and Big W, which reported nearly $65 billion in sales last financial year. She took on her most recent role, as the managing director of WooliesX, in 2017.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Australia and New Zealands leading pureplay online fashion, lifestyle and sporting destination has had a year of evolution; with seemingly smooth transitions overhauling the businesss order warehouse management system (OWMS), building a new B2B platform business and tackling the intricate returns issue.

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RetailMinded

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Add to that not being on top of your logistics management, and you can be facing disastrous consequences on the health of your business as a whole. Improving the logistics management process will translate into increased operational productivity and efficiency. Poor Warehouse Management. Logistics Management Can Be Conquered.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Mathias Ullrich, Managing Director, LIGANOVA. Retailers can now be first movers and benefit sustainably from the gaming trend by increasing interaction through gamification and directing visitor flows. Interaction and customer loyalty through gamification . Credits: Fendi.

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RetailMinded

JANUARY 28, 2022

Inventory management and control, despite their difficulty, are the most critical functions of a successful retail organization. . Many retailers’ success is contingent upon managing their inventory effectively. And overstocking your store will have a detrimental effect on your cash flow. Usual Types Of Retail Inventory .

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Retail Times

MARCH 22, 2021

From finding the right vendors to crafting mutually-beneficial agreements with them, the pointers below should give you some ideas that you can apply in your supplier management processes. What is supplier relationship management? Instead, use a supplier management tool or a communications app like Slack to maximize efficiency.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 15, 2023

We believe there are six key strategic pillars, which should be taken into account to ensure your organisation is on the right track for supply chain resilience: Redesign your fulfilment network and your merchandise planning function for multi-channel fulfilment. Progress is the pathway to perfection, so it’s okay to do this in stages.

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Creative Displays Now

JANUARY 2, 2025

They use gravity to enable products to flow forward naturally, maintaining a stocked-up and neat look. Elevates Aesthetic Quality While placing the product in strategic areas of the store is essential to influencing buying decisions , it won’t be as effective if the merchandise is untidy or the display looks empty.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 20, 2023

We asked Shoplight’s Focusing Manager, Terry Vann, why focusing is so important in retail lighting: Focusing allows you to control the spread of light and pops of colour on the shop floor. There’s no doubt that walking into a store which is inviting and vibrant with well-lit merchandise is going to make you want to buy more!

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Compliantia

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Eighty-six percent of retailers report there is a correlation between well-executed visual merchandising and conversion rates. Using a Visual Merchandising Checklist in-store helps ensure your programs are executed on time and across all locations. Customer traffic flow is aided by store layout. STORE EXTERIOR.

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Retail Works Inc

AUGUST 16, 2021

Such is the life of a visual merchandiser in the Ice Cream Capital of the World, Le Mars, Iowa. Wells Enterprises, the largest family-owned and managed ice cream and frozen treat manufacturer in the United States, is headquartered in Le Mars. Merchandise Stories – take a section of your shop and fill it with only one brand.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 15, 2022

An assortment plan provides: A solid structure around how many options of styles or colours to buy and at what price, gives buyers guidance when buying inventory, and gives merchandisers a financial plan and confidence in the sales budgets. This is all managed by the store grading. What is assortment planning? More on this later.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 28, 2021

Retailers must delicately navigate the flow of personal information, with 89 per cent of consumers valuing transparency in how their data is used as a trust factor. Data management platforms (DMPs) are gaining traction, however, broadening the use of this technology beyond its traditional use case of media buying and optimisation.

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CAAD

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Managing customer flow : In very busy stores, it can be challenging to ensure that the calm spaces do not become overcrowded, which could reduce the sense of tranquility and relaxation they are designed to offer.

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Creative Displays Now

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Choosing the right store floor plan can have a profound effect on the way customers navigate the store, interact with your merchandise and whether they decide to purchase any products. Customer flow: The way that a customer navigates a store’s aisles is the customer flow. What Is a Retail Store Layout?

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Strong online traffic on Black Friday demonstrated a notable pattern of shoppers putting time and effort into selecting the lowest-cost, best-value merchandise, said Rob Garf, vice president and general manager for retail at Salesforce, which tracks data flowing through its Commerce Cloud e-commerce service.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We’re completely revamping the structure of our database and the email flows within that. So really merchandising the website appropriately [was necessary]. She’ll be managing the retail team and helping drive sales on the wholesale side. It really is back to basics. We’re re-hauling our entire affiliate programme.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 5, 2021

The firm’s “Jedox guru” –The Head of Planning, who leads a team of demand and supply planners and is responsible for both international and domestic stock flow for the business. So we can take corrective action through lots of different means.”.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 8, 2023

Scotsman Ian McLeod has built his retail career around managing transformation, having worked on every continent of the planet except Antarctica – “There are not many stores there,” he quipped. And it varied from country to country and market to market.”

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

All eyes are therefore on the merchandise and not the internal finishes. The extra-large planks are in scale with the extensive floor to ceiling windows, providing a sense of flow to the open plan store and a cohesive style that complements and highlights the furnishings on sale. Also, the complete opposite can be true. Make an impact.

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Retail Times

MARCH 30, 2021

Such solutions are also beneficial if you have several locations because they allow you to manage multiple stores from one place. Not ready for a full retail management solution? Consider creating an inventory management system in Excel. You won’t be able to do that if you’re only counting your merchandise once or twice a year.

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Inside Retail

MAY 9, 2023

For brands, OnTheList is a sustainable option to clear past-season merchandise; turning old inventory into opportunity whilst simultaneously paving an additional channel to a wider consumer market. When we look at this business, brands give us their consignments to manage our sales.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 14, 2022

Higher operating costs are evident in virtually every expense item, from increasing occupancy costs as Covid-19 concessions end, through to higher merchandise and financing costs, surging energy and transport expenses, and rising wages. Wage pressures. per cent increase in the wages of low-paid workers.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Aspects of the superstore format will flow through the 150 stores we have today, and will impact the 200 stores we’ll have by 2027. What’s important is learning how to merchandise a lot of products in a small space. The Townsville store represents the modernisation of our brand. It will set us up for success over the next 10 years.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Two years ago, the company adopted the Centric 8 Flagship PLM software solution to manage products across all categories. Multi-category retailers want a system that can streamline different practices but also manage niche differences between types of products,” explains Graham Jones, ANZ Sales Director at Centric Software.

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RetailMinded

MAY 23, 2024

From the bustling holiday season to the quiet lulls in between, managing cash flow during these ebbs and flows is a critical challenge. Failure to effectively manage cash flow during peak and slow periods can lead to inventory shortages, operational disruptions, and financial distress.

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VMS

JULY 22, 2021

The challenge by the client is always the same,” says Alec Zaballero, Managing Executive at TPG. Decorative metal frames running vertically through a relatively narrow atrium communicate through a series of LED screens that reference the visual merchandising moments on each balcony along the way.

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FC Dadson

JANUARY 22, 2024

Foundation Walls: In retail spaces, foundation walls can be transformed into visually appealing elements with custom woodwork, providing a sturdy yet stylish backdrop for merchandise. They can be used to break up open space, direct traffic flow, and create partitions for different areas of a retail space.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 22, 2023

How to meet the display needs of massive product volume and varied VM(Visual Merchandising) tool combinations? And how to design based on the rules of the existing ceiling track system and VM display system, and deliver managed design upgrade of details.

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Inside Retail

MAY 19, 2022

This week, we shine a spotlight on Anthony Tripodo, commercial manager at Coles Media. I’m currently working as the commercial manager in the newly forming Coles Media Centre of Excellence Team. The project deployed 65” digital screens at front-of-store, directly-facing the optimal flow of customer traffic.

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Jahabow

JULY 10, 2020

Manage Lines. This can increase the chance that customers will line up outside — this also means check-out lines need to be managed as well. Crowd management outside sets clear expectations inside. Streamlining your layout is also a good merchandising strategy in general.

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CAAD

AUGUST 25, 2024

By using machine learning algorithms, designers can create layouts that maximize customer flow and the exposure of key products. Intelligent visual merchandising AI also improves visual merchandising through predictive analytics.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2023

According to Lee, for retailers, the process of storing and managing inventory involves significant expenses such as rent for the store and warehouse, transportation costs, and labour expenses. It’s negative cash flow.” “But it requires a very different way of thinking in terms of how it operates.”

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All Work

JULY 15, 2021

These eight primal needs are managed by the subconscious brain. The subconscious brain manages 95 percent of people’s daily lives, decisions, and behaviors. Forward-thinking companies will want to train their managers to be empathetic to the needs of the returning workforce. The role of change management.

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Compliantia

DECEMBER 26, 2021

It allows standards to be checked, deficiencies tracked, assigned and resolved when district or sales managers visit stores. order sections according to the “natural flow” of the visit. Whenever possible, sections should be laid out to match the natural flow of a visit (a district/area manager physically walking the store).

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