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Are You Getting What You Want From Your Retail Store?

Retail Smart Guys

Are You Getting What You Want From Your Retail Store? How many of you find at the end of the month, season or year that you do not have any money for you, the owner? You are not compensated for all of the risk and hard work you put into running your store.

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Own a retail store and don’t have any cash to show for yourself?

Retail Smart Guys

Own a retail store and don’t have any cash to show for yourself? How many times have you all heard about or felt this personally? I assume many of you have heard this time and time again! So what’s the reason for this pain and downfall of cash for the independent retailer?

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Comment on Smaller brewers open up attack on new font by Glynn Davis

Retail Insider

It looks like that might be exactly what is happening. Only on the margins at this stage of course

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Comment on Guest slot from Ajaz Ahmed – a letter to Argos by bit of history

Retail Insider

I think to the point… We (Sitemorse) carry out a retail Index each quarter – Argos still hold the crown for the ‘best’ (or worse) response every to not addressing the issues on their website… “Why should we spend money fixing them, we are above target”

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Dan Jablons speaking at San Francisco Gift Fair, Monday, July 29th!

Retail Smart Guys

Hi everybody! Dan Jablons, President of Retail Smart Guys, will be speaking at the San Francisco International Gift Fair on Monday, July 29. Please stop by and say hello! Here’s the link: [link] and Events.htm. Dan Jablons, Retail Smart Guys. Trade Secrets! – What Are Today’s Successful Retailers doing to Survive, and how can I apply that to my business? Not every retailer is suffering in this economy. There are many that are actually very profitable and have great cash flow.

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Dan Jablons speaks at the San Francisco International Gift Fair!

Retail Smart Guys

Dan Jablons, Retail Smart Guys. Hi Everybody! Dan Jablons will be speaking at the San Francisco International Gift Fair on Monday, July 29th. Please stop by and say hello! Click on the link below for details: [link]. Retailing Dan Jablons increase retail sales management one retail retail blog retail blogging Retail Consulting retail conventions Retail Pro retail sales Retail Smart Guys retail stores retail survival retail tips retailng San Francisco International Gift Fair

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Comment on Smaller brewers open up attack on new font by Curmudgeon

Retail Insider

I’ve often thought that the keg and especially lager sectors offered good prospects for small brewers given that the cask market is pretty much saturated

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Podcast: Leveraging Analytics For Omni-Channel Success

Retalon

Integrated Solutions speaks with Mark Krupnik, CEO of Retalon, a company that provides retail predictive analytics solutions, about how retailers can leverage analytics to help with their omnichannel initiatives, including best practices you can apply today. Play Podcast: (11:45 Min). Listen on Integrated Solutions for Retailers online magazine.).

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Follett Perfects Planning in a Volatile Sales Environment

Retalon

June 2013 Integrated Solutions For Retailers. Click Here to view the original article from the Integrated Solutions for Retailers Magazine. Follett Perfects Planning In A Volatile Sales Environment. By Matt Pillar. A new software implementation is helping the world’s largest college bookstore operator to reduce out-of-stocks and to manage unique demand stimuli. As college bookstores go, Follett Higher Education Group is the big man on campus.

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Predictive Analytics Transforms Inventory Management in Retail

Retalon

Originally Published on PA Times. Every retailer wishes to have the right product at the right place at the right time. In order to achieve this there is a lot of thought put into inventory management, allocation, and replenishment processes. Most retailers begin by creating a plan based on the big picture of their business process, and then they purchase the inventory, and allocate it to stores from the DC. Once inventory begins to run low at a specific store, it is replenished from the DC.

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LVMH names new CEOs for Louis Vuitton and Dior 

Inside Retail

Subsequently, Delphine Arnault will head Christian Dior Couture as the brand’s new chairman and CEO after having served at Louis Vuitton as executive vice president since 2013.

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Sanity Entertainment to close all physical stores, trade only online

Inside Retail

It was purchased by Ray Itaoui in 2013 despite the “challenging” entertainment landscape. Entertainment and music retailer Sanity is set to close all 50 of its physical stores by April 30, taking its business entirely online.

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Dollar Tree Continues to Rebuild C-Suite With COO Hire

Retail TouchPoints

From 2013 to 2021, Creedon worked with Advance Auto Parts , most recently as the company’s EVP of U.S. Creedon also filled the company’s role of President of Autopart International from 2013 to 2017. Discount variety retailer Dollar Tree has hired Michael Creedon, Jr.

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LoveShackFancy opens first London store

Retail Focus

Founded by former Cosmopolitan fashion editor, Rebecca Hessel Cohen, in 2013, LoveShackFancy is a vintage-inspired clothing brand. US fashion brand LoveShackFancy is to open its first European store in London’s Notting Hill.

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How to Understand and Mitigate Risk for Your Go-Live! Events

Mulesoft

In his 2013 talk at Velocity, Cook went deep into the […]. All your systems are on “the hairy edge of failure,” as noted by Dr. Richard Cook, an expert on how systems fail.

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Lovehoney Group’s Australasian director Rob Godwin to step down

Inside Retail

Godwin founded the company in 2013 and was instrumental in growing the business overseas, leading to double-digit growth during the pandemic when demand soared. Sexual wellness company Lovehoney Group’s Australasian director Rob Godwin will step down from his role, effective April 2.

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Irish shoppers face potential increase of €453 to annual grocery bills, Kantar reports

Retail Times

this period, the highest level in Ireland since February 2013. The latest figures from Kantar show that take-home grocery sales for Ireland fell by 4.9% in the 12 weeks to 12 June 2022. While decline is softer than last month, grocery price inflation continues to climb and hit 6.5%

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Irish shoppers reacting to rising prices as inflation hits nine-year high, Kantar reports

Retail Times

Irish shoppers are adjusting to increased prices as grocery inflation hits 5.5%, marking the first time it has risen above 5% since August 2013. Kantar’s latest take home grocery figures for Ireland show that sales fell by 6.5% in the 12 weeks to 15 May 2022.

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Irish shoppers feel the pinch as grocery price inflation hits, Kantar reports

Retail Times

this period, its highest level since September 2013. Kantar’s latest take home grocery figures for Ireland show that sales fell by 7.2% over the 12 weeks to 17 April 2022. Against a complex backdrop of global supply chain issues, grocery price inflation has hit 4.7%

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Zellers hits the comeback trail inside The Bay

Retail Wire

The Hudson’s Bay Company shuttered nearly all the Zellers stores in Canada in 2013. Now the chain is being resurrected as a store-within-a-store concept inside The Bay.

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Designer Thierry Mugler dies, at 73

Inside Retail

The designer retired from the brand in 2002 before returning in 2013 as the creative adviser. French fashion designer, Manfred Thierry Mugler, who was behind designs worn by Beyonce and Lady Gaga, has passed away, aged 73. . “We

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Off White, Louis Vuitton artistic designer Virgil Abloh passes away

Inside Retail

In 2013, he founded Off White, and became the Men’s Artistic Director of Louis Vuitton in 2018. Virgil Abloh, artistic director at LVMH, Louis Vuitton and Off White, has passed away. Abloh had been privately battling cancer for several years, according to a statement from LVMH. “We

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Dan Jablons speaks about Open to Buy!

Retail Smart Guys

I will also be a featured speaker at the Board Retailer’s Association (BRA) Show, Surf Expo, this January 2013, in Orlando, Florida. Listed below are my already scheduled seminars for the BRA Show: Thursday, January 10th, 2013: Seminar: Trade Secrets!

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Inside Scoop : The story behind the homegrown Malaysian ice-cream brand 

Inside Retail

Shiew Li enrolled in Gelato University in Italy, and soon Inside Scoop came to be in 2013. Tan and Shiew Li opened their first outlet in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur in 2013. When it comes to a uniquely Malaysian success story, Inside Scoop certainly fits the bill.

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Woolworths takes controlling stake in data analytics firm for $223 million

Inside Retail

The deal implies a valuation of A$796 million for Quantium, nearly 20-times the value when it took a 50 per cent stake in 2013.

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Dan Jablons speaks about Open to Buy!

Retail Smart Guys

I will also be a featured speaker at the Board Retailer’s Association (BRA) Show, Surf Expo, this January 2013, in Orlando, Florida. Listed below are my already scheduled seminars for the BRA Show: Thursday, January 10th, 2013: Seminar: Trade Secrets!

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Confidence falls and inflation fears rise in latest IGD shoppers’ survey

Talking Retail

The September index highlights that fears about food price inflation are at their highest since March 2013, with 85% of shoppers now expecting prices to rise in the next year, against 79%.

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Tessuti to open global flagship at Liverpool One

Retail Focus

Tessuti , part of JD Sports Group, has operated a 5,300 sq ft store on Liverpool ONE’s Peter’s Lane since 2013. Grosvenor Britain & Ireland has announced that curated designer retailer, Tessuti, is to upsize at Liverpool ONE.

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NRA launches wage compliance hub in Western Australia

Inside Retail

Since 2013 retailers have had to deal with nearly 14,000 different rates of pay depending on variables such as whether the employee is casual or permanent, their age, their classification and the times at which the work is performed,” Lamb said.

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Cardiff city centre store finds new owner

Talking Retail

The store, which has been owned and operated by Tony Cristofaro since August 2013, usually benefits from passing trade from tourists and office workers due to its proximity to.

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Ikea Germany and Infarm create instore herb gardens

Inside Retail

Infarm, which was founded in 2013, considers itself to be one of the world’s fastest-growing vertical farming companies. Ikea has partnered with Infarm to grow three instore herb gardens in Germany as the demand for sustainable products is growing locally.

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McDonald’s class action claims systemic failure to provide rest breaks

Inside Retail

Under the McDonald’s Australian Enterprise Agreement 2013 and the Fast Food Industry Award 2010 staff?are McDonald’s is facing a class action over the company’s alleged failure to provide its employees with paid?10-minute?rest 10-minute?rest rest breaks.

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Retailers agree to extend Bangladeshi garment workers’ safety pact

Inside Retail

Some 200 retailers signed up to the accord in 2013, and a list of those that have also signed up to the extension will be made available on September 1, sources said.

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Under Armour Appoints Hospitality Veteran as President and CEO

Retail TouchPoints

Prior to her role as President, Linnartz, who joined Marriott in 1997, held roles in sales, marketing and finance, rising to EVP and Global Chief Commercial Officer from 2013 to 2019 and serving as Group President of Consumer Operations, Technology and Emerging Businesses from 2020 to 2021.

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Bestway appoints new symbol head and central operations director

Talking Retail

Adrian O’Brien, who has worked for Costcutter since 2013, will take up the role of head of symbol at Bestway.

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Russian prosecutor seeks to ban Dolce & Gabbana same-sex kiss ads

Inside Retail

Same-sex relationships are legal in Russia, but a 2013 law bans disseminating “propaganda on non-traditional sexual relations” among young Russians.

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Woolworths settles 2019 class action over underpaying staff

Inside Retail

The retailer said it would make an ex-gratia payment of A$2,500 plus retirement benefits to its about 20,000 current and former salaried team store members, who worked with the retailer for at least six months between January 2010 and September 2013.

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MetroGroup Secures $18.5 Million Financing for 56,173-Square-Foot Retail Center in San Diego

Shopping Center

The undisclosed borrower developed the property in two phases in 2002 and 2013. San Diego — MetroGroup Realty Finance has secured $18.5 million in financing for a 56,173-square-foot retail center located in San Diego.

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Severe winter storm threatens last-minute package deliveries

Retail Wire

This is a reminder of what happened the final Christmas week of 2013,” said Satish Jindel, founder and president of ShipMatrix, referring to storms that forced late deliveries that year.

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Symbol group gives 200,000 foodbank meals in nine months

Talking Retail

Since 2013 One Stop has raised more than £8.8m More than 200,000 foodbank meals have been supplied by community retailer One Stop since March, says the community retailer.

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Macy’s to Expand Reebok Apparel Offerings Through ABG Partnership

Retail TouchPoints

The department store retailer has also partnered with Finish Line since 2013 in a relationship that saw the athletic goods retailer establish its own branded shop-in-shop locations inside Macy’s stores.

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Catch promotes chief commercial officer to newly created role

Inside Retail

Prior to joining Catch, Bagg had a role in investment banking at Macquarie and was part of the founding team of Uber’s Australian operations and local launch in 2013.

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Catch promotes chief commercial officer to newly created role

Inside Retail

Prior to joining Catch, Bagg had a role in investment banking at Macquarie and was part of the founding team of Uber’s Australian operations and local launch in 2013.