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Seven Halloween 2012 Merchandising Displays

Every season, RetailNet Group’s analyst team visits a variety of stores around the globe to see how retailers are laying out their merchandise.  For Halloween, the creative displays change slightly, but the merchandising strategies remain consistent. Rapid product turnover, for this season especially, means that permanent fixtures do not make sense.  Retailers purchase, and brands [...]

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Retail Clinics: Kroger Learns From CVS & WAG

CVS has the Minute Clinic, Walgreens has the Take Care Clinic, Target runs its clinics in-house, and Walmart Clinics are managed by over 60 independent health care providers across the continental US. Click Here to see detailed outlines of each of these models. The last of the major retail clinic operators in the US is [...]

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Learning Price Personalization Through Fuel Rewards Programs

In the past few years the economy and fuel prices have moved in opposite directions. While the consumer’s propensity to spend on discretionary items has dwindled, their gas prices have steadily increased.  This “new norm” has opened the door for food retailers who are constantly looking to add value to their brands in the form [...]

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Why So Many Retailers are Claiming EDLP

Claiming “Low Prices” is the newest call to action for many retailers. While low price as a call to action and differentiator is nothing new, the advent of price transparency tools for shoppers and price optimization tools for retailers has changed the game. Shoppers with pricing transparency tools have become a big concern for store-based [...]

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How Are Retailers Preparing for the 2011 Holiday Season?

Retailers are rolling out new shopping solutions in order to meet the two most prevalent macro-economic trends this holiday season.  First, while the economy is recovering, decreasing credit shows that consumers are either saving in order to pay down debt, or simply that a lack confidence in the economy has reduced discretionary spending.  Second, visits [...]

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Technology Brings Efficiency, Not Loyalty

For the consumer, a positive store-based retail experience hinges on product location ease and efficiency at checkout.  The solution to these concepts, however, is not a simple one.  Retailers and inventors are looking to create new tech-related checkout options in order to create a more efficient shopping experience.  However, consumers are reluctant to say goodbye [...]

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Photos: In-Store Interruption Tactics

Once the retailer gets the consumer into their store, or “wins the trip,” there’s a range of strategies used to guide the shopper through the store.  Department layout, fixtures, shelves, and signs can cause shoppers to choose multiple different shopping routes.  However, both the retailer and the brand look to increase the average basket size [...]

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Photos and Analysis: Halloween Merchandising Displays

Seasonal merchandise, like candy and sweets for Halloween, have started to take up more and more of the major retailers’ selling space in the past few weeks.  Now, with the merchandise in place in most stores we can compare the different displays, and promotional strategies being deployed.. Knowing that this type of seasonal merchandise turns [...]

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