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Editor's Notebook
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The Circumstances Of The Sale
By Matt Pillar, Editor In Chief
All retail sales are circumstantial — which is only a problem if you lack visibility into the circumstances!
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Featured Integrated Solutions For Retailers Article
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Enhance Your Merchandise Planning Process
By Erin Harris, associate editor
To gain better data visibility and a solid growth pattern, your merchandising software must drill down to granular detail while allowing you to retain your existing data. United Fashions of Texas, doing business as Melrose Stores, is a women's apparel retailer that operates 94 locations. To remain competitive, the retailer needed to overhaul its legacy merchandising system, which was too cumbersome and antiquated to keep up with the company's rapid growth pattern.
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Guest Expert Series
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3 Steps To Drive Revenue With Optimized Transactional Messages
By Sally Lowery, Bronto Software
Boosting your transactional messages is an easy way to gain untapped revenue. As one of the most underutilized opportunities in marketing, retailers review this timely and relevant channel to build loyalty and increase orders. So what should your strategy be as the holiday season approaches and we head into the New Year? Click here if you missed Part 1 of this series.
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Featured Articles
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The Right Customer Service Starts With The Right Workforce Management
Submitted By Dayforce, Inc.
Longo's traces company success to its focus on natural products, dependable quality, and a dedication to providing superior customer service — known internally as the Longo's Way. The premium grocer has long understood the importance of workforce management to achieving its goals of delivering consistent, high-quality service within its budgeted labor constraint.
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Generate An Additional 8% To 15% In Energy Savings
Submitted By Site Controls
There is a solution for generating an additional 8% to 15% in energy savings from your current EMS. This latest eBook details how you can use a legacy EMS to enhance enterprise visibility and business intelligence, reduce maintenance costs, generate additional energy savings, facilitate demand response participation, and extend the life and ROI of your current EMS equipment.
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Best Practices In Internal Theft Prevention
Submitted By Torex
Not only are professional thieves on the move to be hired by retail establishments, but there is also greater temptation for even the most faithful employees to commit fraud if it means paying the bills at home or putting food on the table. Redundancies of in-store workers, particularly security staff, only serve to exacerbate the problem.
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Bring Advanced Science To The Art Of Fashion Retailing
Submitted By Oracle Retail
Increased competition, decreased consumer spending, and shorter product lifecycles are just a few of the factors driving fashion retailers to adopt a "fast fashion" business model in which unique assortments are quickly created in response to rapidly evolving trends and customer preferences. From preseason planning to end-of-season clearance, you need broad visibility into your operations and holistic, end-to-end management of short product lifecycles.
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Featured Content
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| TM-T70 Space-Saving POS Receipt Printer |
| The space-saving TM-T70 printer with easy all-front access is the only receipt printer available today designed to operate entirely from the front of the printer. With its front-facing controls, paper loading, and receipt dispensing, it can be placed under a counter or on a shelf to free up valuable counter space.
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| Quality Labels Equals Quality Products |
| To kick off Uncle Charlie's Products' initiative to private label their products, they went in search of an easy to use, highly reliable label printer. They selected the Datamax-O'Neil DMX 430. With the installation of the DMX 430 label printers, they went from two full-time employees, 40 hours per week to two hours a day to generate their custom label needs.
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| Outsourcing To Improve Supply Chain Agility |
| Delivering on a high performance supply chain network is the competitive imperative to compete in the 21st Century. The intensity of change in today's market requires agility, speed and responsiveness from your supply chain.
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Featured Video
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| Demo: Slidebuy™ Shopper Information System |
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Get your product noticed on the shelf — with Slidebuy™ Shopper Information System. This universal system combines a touch screen with customized software to create an impactful interactive marketing solution.
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Industry Events
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 It is clear that it's not enough for retailers to be multi-channel capable. Retailers must be seamlessly 'cross-channel' as well. If you want to learn more, but you missed E-Commerce: More than just an e-Store, a web event presented by Jesta I.S., you can still view it on demand here. |
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