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[Infographic] Brick-and-Mortar Retailers (Plus Chocolate) Drive Sales on Valentine’s Day

Wiser

Many consumers prefer to pick out their flowers in person, not via a picture online, while card-shopping and candy-buying are two more purchases that are traditionally completed at brick-and-mortar retailers. Furthermore, most shopping occurs right before the holiday. Discount Stores Beat Big-Box Stores.

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How to Manage Your Retail Operations When You’re in Growth Mode

Wiser

With the ease and accessibility of Amazon for consumers, it is vital that companies constantly work to keep the shopping experience fresh and exciting. . The company was millions of dollars in debt, and it was unable to provide its stores with investments that were already long overdue. Let’s find out. . Ample inventory. .

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Good. Different? Aldi follows rivals on self-service and e-commerce

Inside Retail

“Anecdotal feedback from the first day of the trial was overwhelmingly positive with more than half of our customers opting to use the new Self-Checkouts,” Robert Eichfeld, store operations director at Aldi Australia, said. We saw Myer fall into the same trap by offering Boxing Day sales, online and suddenly all the lines are gone.