Archive for January, 2017
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Wal-Mart’s Employment Deployment And 6 Ways To Curb Retail Turnover
January 31st, 2017If the closest distance between two people is a smile, as the pianist Victor Borge once suggested, then wouldn’t a […]
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National Retail Federation Influencer On 6 Things Retail Is Doing Right (And Wrong)
January 30th, 2017Ask global retail consultant Wendy Liebmann to name the retail industry’s person of the year, and she’ll say it’s the […]
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The $5 Bonus: The Effective Psychology Behind Costco’s Membership Fee
January 20th, 2017Basic math may indicate that Costco has 225 million good reasons to increase its annual membership fee. In truth, shoppers of Costco may have more to gain, since those fees go toward lowering its prices. The behavioral economics behind Costco’s successful membership model.
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7 Under-The-Radar Retail Trends For 2017
January 5th, 2017Will men and artificial intelligence define retail in 2017? Possibly. Considering the activities in retail today, several experts shared what unexpected trends they believe will merge in 2017.
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Holiday Spending To Exceed $1 Trillion — And 11 Other Surprising Data Points Of Christmas
January 4th, 2017We may not be giving away partridges and drummers for the holidays, but no doubt people are spending a lot on gifts. They also are doing so in creative new ways. I scoured holiday survey results from six sources and plucked 12 surprising data points about the holidays.
