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•White Paper: How Retailers Can Capture Their Share of Sales In A Tough Economy

By Paul Streicher, President and Managing Director of Retail Systems, SalePoint

We at SalePoint have an interesting perspective since we have been providing systems to retailers now for over 23 years. We have seen many holiday sales periods in both up and down economies. We have enjoyed with our clients the rapid expansion of retailers as they grew their chains during good times. Conversely, we have mourned the loss of retailers as they contracted and sometimes failed during periods of recessions.

The current "great recession" has offered challenges that we have not seen before. The quick and dramatic threat of failure of the United States financial institutions, the high degree of business failures and unemployment, the drastic change in the availability of business and consumer credit, the evaporation of perceived wealth of homeowners as the housing bubble burst, and the high degree of uncertainty presented by the many changes being discussed or adopted by the Federal and State Governments as they address the realities of the "great recession" and its causes.

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