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Making your customers uncomfortable
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| Tomorrow is the ridiculous Black Friday ritual, gaining in steam every year, in which large American retailers run big sales that start at 6 am. People line up even earlier to get in first. Kids are stampeded. Muscles are pulled. Friendships frayed. Credit cards exhausted.
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Making your customers uncomfortable
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| Tomorrow is the ridiculous Black Friday ritual, gaining in steam every year, in which large American retailers run big sales that start at 6 am. People line up even earlier to get in first. Kids are stampeded. Muscles are pulled. Friendships frayed. Credit cards exhausted.
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Competition in Tough Times
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| How are small retailers supposed to compete against the big boys, especially in the current economic climate? Small retailers have several advantages, from obvious things like lower fixed costs, to intangible assets like customer service and name recognition. Refinining your position in every aspect of your business can make a huge difference to your bottom line, and how you support it. |
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Violence in Shoplifting
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| You will often hear the term “Shoplifting is a Victimless Crime”, this certainly is not necessarily always the case. With the rise in shoplifting there has become an increase in violence towards retailers and their employees. In some cases these are verbal assaults but in a growing number of cases it has become physical. Retailers need to recognize a potential danger to personal safety and take the appropriate action.
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Emerging Technologies
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| Major retailers like Wal-Mart typically represent the leading edge in retail technology, but that doesn't mean small retailers should ignore these trends because "only the big guys are doing it" |
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Debits, the good kind!
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| Debit card transactions can be a bit of a mystery to retailers, since they are priced differently from credit card transactions. The industry lingo can be confusing and retailers end up paying too much to accept these payments. |
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Making Sense of Retail Payments
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| There is a new technology sweeping through the retail payments landscape that promises to revolutionize the way that consumers pay for goods and services. In the United Kingdom, the geographic region that is the furthest into their adoption process, this technology has been described as the biggest change in payments since decimalization, but is EMV, or chip and PIN as it is also known, really the silver bullet that Visa, MasterCard, JCB Co and American Express would have us believe? Retailers aren’t convinced it is. |
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Business Intelligence Gives Retailers Insight Into The Future
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| Wouldn't it be grand if retailers could have a way to predict the future of their business? Well, many retailers are doing just that. |
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Tough Times Demand Tighter Retail Security
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| Every retailer has a unique set of security challenges and, in the retail world, your security challenges never end.
More retailers are realizing that using perimeter and anti-virus technologies alone are not enough. As someone once said, it's like locking your doors but leaving your windows open. Now retailers must take a lot more security measures.
Here are some vital strategies retailers need to take for preventative measures against retail loss... |
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Is a climate of perpetual discounting limiting choice and eroding our quality of life?
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| Gerry Harvey, (Harvey Norman) was recently bemoaning the culture of discounting in our retail sector. He was saying that retailers had lost the plot and didn’t know how to sell real value anymore. He said they had fallen foul of a culture of constant discounting as the only way to attract customers, which was tantamount to business disaster and a degradation of the retail sector. I happen to agree with Gerry in this instance.
He went further by saying that retailers were failing to find out what customers really wanted and what they really valued. He said retailers weren’t offering choice – a range of options of different value and therefore were not selling. |
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Driving Retail Foot Traffic With Coupons And Free Stuff
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| Since the advent of the internet and online shopping, brick and mortar retailers have continued to lose more and more customers each year. The ease, comfort and privacy of shopping from home have made internet retailers some of the largest in the world.
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