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Retail IS detail. And so is success! | See ahead! Face the future with confidence | Getting through the retail maze with GMROI | Advanced retail management technique: the NINE STEPPER for Retail Forecasting

Friday, June 14, 2019

From The Co-Founders

Bring those details to life!

Ahh yes. Retail IS detail!

But there are ways to make those details come to life for your employees and your customers. Here are a few ideas to keep your stores the inviting place to shop. And to help keep retailing fun!

Music is a great way to create an inviting atmosphere in your store.
But be careful – music should always be selected to appeal to your best, targeted customer, not the staff. There may be a difference.
First-time customers have no idea what to expect when they walk into your store. If you offer only price-and-item information, you may lose those first timers.
Are you taking advantage of graphics and signage to educate about your merchandise, and to persuade why your store should be preferred?
Customers naturally gravitate toward new merchandise.
Take advantage of that tendency. Consider pairing older merchandise with new arrivals.
More than one-third of the retail businesses that fail are profitable(!) However, they ran out of cash as their creditors ran out of patience.
The best displays are those that actually sell the merchandise. Even right off of the display! You are not running a museum (are you?)
Studies show that only 20% of customers are true price hounds who always chase the lowest price. The other 80% care more about what else your store offers.
What value can you deliver to these folks?
Don't let that fickle 20% distract you.
Look at your sales results from a variety of productivity measures.
Besides total sales volume, monitor total number of transactions and items per transactions, both for your total operation as well as by category. You will find surprises!
The best time to take markdowns is just before the sales peak, not just after. Your past sales records will be indicators.
Remember, when your suppliers start offering deals, it's time to start cutting prices!

Ahh yes, retail IS detail. And so is success!

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The NINE STEPPER for Retail Forecasting

WEBINAR OF THE WEEK • Now thru Thursday June 20

There are 3 kinds of retailers:

Those who MAKE things happen
Those who WATCH things happen
Those who say, "Um, what happened?!"

Why are those who are in the first group – the retailers who make things happen – able to be so purposeful? Where does their confidence come from?

Their ability to look ahead. To preview the outcome. To understand, in advance, "What would happen if I...?"

Pat Johnson and Dick Outcalt, Co-Founders of The Retail Owners Institute®, have developed a clear, step-by-step process to accomplish all that, specifically for busy retailers. They call this powerful projecting approach – wait for it – The Nine Stepper.

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Complicated? Not anymore!
Powerful and empowering? Absolutely!

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