While marketing, merchandising, and buying take the center stage when one talks about retail planning and operations, what gets relatively less attention is the store replenishment process. How effectively you manage your store replenishment ultimately decides whether the product reaches the customer when she needs it. According to an estimate, […]
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How to Sell More Gift Cards in Your Retail Store: 8 Proven Ways
Gift cards. No matter what type of store you have or how big your business is, you’ll likely benefit from carrying them in your shops. As retail expert Kevin Graff said, “Gift cards are God’s gift to retail.” Why? For one thing, customers who use gift cards tend to spend more. […]
Retail Store Profiling Software Can Drive Your In-Store Marketing
Online retailers have their limitations when it comes to serving customers on an urgent basis. According to Google/Ipsos, nearly 80% of shoppers go to store to buy when they have an item they need or want immediately. Retail stores are still in high demand and this is one of many […]
10 Ways to Increase Sales Using Optical Store Management Software
If you are an eyewear retailer, you are probably feeling the effects of the e-commerce revolution. As consumers turn to the Internet for their purchases, brick-and-mortar stores see their profits shrink. Fortunately, retailers still have one crucial advantage: their customer data. ChainDrive optical software is a software solution that retailers […]
Canadian Bag Retailer Bentley Looks to Expand Business Significantly with Store Concepts [Interview]
![Canadian Bag Retailer Bentley Looks to Expand Business Significantly with Store Concepts [Interview]](https://portal-series.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Canadian-Bag-Retailer-Bentley-Looks-to-Expand-Business-Significantly-with-768x502.jpg "Canadian Bag Retailer Bentley Looks to Expand Business Significantly with Store Concepts [Interview]")
After surviving the pandemic, Bentley, a Montreal based luggage and handbag retailer, is looking to expand its pop up locations, grow its omni-channel, and add vending machines throughout Canada and globally. “We are building our foundation so we can do as many things as we think is logical to see where […]
How to Make Your Furniture Store Easier to Navigate
The furniture store industry has grown 1.7% per year on average since 2017 and currently stands at a market size of $75.7 billion. The market is extremely competitive, and one of the ways you can ring up more sales is by making your furniture showroom easy to navigate. If you […]
Team Tatty’s Store Picks! – Tatty Devine
Need some last-minute Christmas shopping inspiration? Team Tatty’s Store Stars are here with the top tips for gifting goals! Are you ready? Stick on Mariah Carey and grab that hairbrush microphone, you’re going to be singing “All I Want for Christmas Is You” before you know it… Over to the […]
11 Things to Do RIGHT NOW to get Your Store ready for Holiday 2022
It’s almost here. The fourth quarter, the Golden Quarter; the big one you can’t afford to mess up. Making the Golden Quarter work for you requires careful planning. This year start your Golden Quarter planning now: 2022 Dates to Remember This year Black Friday is on November 25, Small […]
How to Make Your Pet Store Easy to Navigate
Ever since the pandemic, there has been a notable increase in the number of households with pets. Most pet owners consider their pets to be a part of their family and care deeply about their needs. It’s hardly surprising, therefore, that the pet care market size in the US is […]
Retail Better: Store of Brands vs. Branded Store
When we communicate to customers about generating their strategy for their NTI, transform, or notion retail outlet, we always talk to, “What do you want to be when you expand up? Do you want to be a branded retailer or a retailer of manufacturers?” It is the very first move […]
GIANT Co. adds new store in Bellefonte, Pa.
Ribbon cutting held for 50,000-sq.-foot grocery store CARLISLE, Pa. – The Big Co. held grand opening ceremonies nowadays for its new Benner Township shop, located at 2699 Benner Pike, in Bellefonte, Pa. The new 50,000-sq.-foot keep will function from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., 7 times a 7 days, and […]
Young girls’ fashion brand is opening a store in the Mosaic District
A fledgling company almost as young as the toddlers and other kids it seeks to outfit is opening a store in Merrifield this month. LooLous is opening at the Mosaic District next to the clothing store South Moon Under. The company’s owner, Savin Ghaderi, told Tysons Reporter that it will […]
3 Black Women Founders Launch AMP Beauty LA, The Online Shopping Destination Reformatting The Black Beauty Store Experience
Screenshot: Courtesy of subjects. Former classmates and sorority sisters, Montré Moore, Phyllicia Phillips, and Angel Lenise are redefining the Black beauty store experience with their company, AMP Beauty LA. While the buying power of Black women in the beauty industry holds steady at 9 times more than any other ethnic […]
Online women’s clothier tries on brick-and-mortar store in Short Pump
Erma Jean co-founders and sisters Lauren Llewellyn, left, and Katelyn Peretti. (Photos courtesy of Erma Jean) Prompted in part by a pivot it made earlier in the pandemic, a 2-year-old local online retailer is going brick-and-mortar in Short Pump. Erma Jean, which also sells shoes and accessories, plans to open […]
‘Jersey Shore’ star Snooki opening another N.J. boutique store
Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi-LaValle, the star of MTV’s “Jersey Shore” reality television franchise, is opening her third boutique store and second in New Jersey. The Snooki Shop will open in Seaside Heights this spring, according to a post on the company’s Instagram page. “Seaside Heights, NJ, Coming Spring 2022, Tag & […]
‘Baby clothes bandits’ Video appears to show women stealing baby clothes from Louisiana store
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — The owner of a local children’s clothing boutique is asking for the public’s help to identify two women who she said were caught stealing from her store on Johnston Street. It happened Monday at Melodi’s Belles and Beaus Boutique in the South College Shopping Center in […]
Woman caught on video making anti-Asian rant in Montreal-area grocery store
Breadcrumb Trail Links Local News “I felt threatened,” says Ken Mak, who was at a Nuns’ Island IGA when another customer pulled down her mask and launched into a tirade against Chinese people regarding the pandemic. Author of the article: Katherine Wilton • Montreal Gazette Publishing date: Jan 06, 2022 […]
I-70 serial killer targets woman at St. Charles store: ‘This guy’s motivation was the act of the killing’ | I70killer
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (KMOV.com) — It was a quiet Sunday afternoon in the KMOV newsroom. The sun was shining on a beautiful spring Sunday. The Cardinals game against the Padres was on a television in the corner. The next newscast was still hours away. And then the phone rang. “There’s […]
Shop a locally owned vintage clothing store in Fort Worth
In January 2021, Laura Simmons took her lifelong love of all things old and decided to share that love with Fort Worth. The 47-year-old opened Studio 74 Vintage, a vintage clothing store specializing in curated pieces mostly created before the 1980s. Since the store opened, Simmons has been featured in […]
Cops shouted ‘slow it down’ and ‘hold up’ at officer before he shot girl, 16, at Burlington store
Los Angeles police officers repeatedly pleaded with a colleague to ‘slow it down’ and ‘hold up’ as he stalked the aisles of a Hollywood Burlington store with a rifle searching for an assault suspect, just moments before firing a shot that killed a 16-year-old girl hiding in a dressing room […]