We provide great advice for retailers. Retail businesses have unique issues as a result of having a storefront. We explore those issues in these helpful articles for retail business owners.
- Avoiding Bad Checks. Retailers lose $12 billion a year to bad checks with over 450 million bad checks being written. Here are some great tips to help you avoid accepting bad checks.
- Retail Window Displays. Retail window displays can draw customers into your store and create a strong brand. We offer advice on how to make the most of your store window displays.
- Effective Sales Clerks. If your sales clerks in your store are hard to find, odds are your store isn't doing well. Here are a few tips to make sure sales clerks are accessible and helpful to customers.
- Transform Your Retail Customers Into Copywriters. Who's writing your product copy this holiday season? If you have strong customer loyalty, consider letting your customers do your copywriting.
- Competing With Big Box Stores. You're a small retailer and a bix box chain store is coming to town. Here's how to survive the challenge and live to tell the tale.
- Retail Mistakes to Avoid. We all know a bad retail store experience when we see it. Here are some common retail gaffes that you will want to steer clear of.
- Store Meetings. Holding a store meeting every morning before the customers arrive is a great way to make sure everyone on your staff gets the latest info and is aware of your store policies.
- Retail and RFID. Looking for info on RFID and what it means to the retail industry? You've come to the right place.
- Power Failure in the Store. What's your store procedure for a complete power loss? If you don't have a power failure plan in place, you are making a big mistake.
- Product Recalls. True or false: When there's a product recall, you can be held liable if you don't get the products off your shelves within 24 hours?
- Retailers and Product Recalls. Is your retail business ready for the next wave of product recalls? The pace of product recalls is accelerating so you need to know how to handle a product recall.
- Improving Store Sales Through Better Store Design. Is your store design helping you to maximize your sales? We examine the effect of store image on customer decisions and offer a few tips to help you improve store design at your shop.
- Store Burglaries and Robberies. As a retail store owner, your profits can disappear in a heartbeat if you become a burglary or robbery victim. We answer a few basic questions about burglaries and robberies.