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Hair stylists, estheticians, and barbers looking to stock the best products for their clientele often must seek out their supplies …
Amazon Unveils Beauty Store for Professionals
30 Monday Sep 2019
Will Shoppers Let Walmart Stock Their Fridges?
26 Thursday Sep 2019
Posted in Chapter 18: Customer Service
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Getting the products into customers’ homes is perhaps the central challenge for retailers seeking to address those consumers’ convenience demands …
4 Grocers that Are Turning Stores into Destinations
23 Monday Sep 2019
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Grocery shopping is a chore that people try to get done as quickly and painlessly as possible. Right? Not necessarily—especially …
Retailers Cash in on a “Captive” College Campus Market
19 Thursday Sep 2019
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For many college students, an August trip to a big box store in their hometown is a rite of passage. …
Amazon Adds Rite Aid Locations to Package Delivery Network
16 Monday Sep 2019
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Let’s count the ways that Amazon can get your order into your hands: Shipping to your door, often requiring you …
TidBit: Shut Out by Shoe Giants, “Mom and Pop” Stores Feel Pinched
12 Thursday Sep 2019
Posted in Retail Tidbits
As if competition with huge chain stores, with their vast volumes of inventory and often lower prices, were not challenging …
Sweetgreen Scraps its Cashless Policy as Criticism Grows
10 Tuesday Sep 2019
Posted in Chapter 07: Financial Strategy
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Just a few short years ago, popular press articles were filled with announcements, discussions, and predictions about the cashless future, …
How a Canadian Chain Is Reinventing Book Selling
05 Thursday Sep 2019
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Virginia Woolf famously insisted that if they wanted to write fiction, women needed “money and a room of one’s own.” …
Walgreens Profit Squeezed by Generic Drugs
02 Monday Sep 2019
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Is a drugstore still a drugstore if it can’t make money by selling drugs? That’s a question facing the dominant …
Forget the Mall, Shoppers Are Buying Gucci at Airports
29 Thursday Aug 2019
Posted in Chapter 08: Retail Locations
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Modern travel often means getting to the airport with more than enough time, just to be safe and avoid the …