Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Choosing the right retail space is a crucial decision for any business owner. Whether you’re launching a new retail venture or relocating your existing business, there are several key factors to consider when selecting a retail space. The location of your retail space can greatly influence your business’s success.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 26, 2024

Running a retail business is tough. Personalizing the Customer Experience In retail, personalizing the customer experience means making sure every shopper feels like the service and products are tailored just for them. For you, as a retailer, this means you could see your average order value go up.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 15, 2023

You can see that America had 442,000+ retail stores back in 2019, and these numbers are bound to increase. So, here are a few tips to help you open and manage your retail store in this ever-changing economy: 1. Attract Potential Customers A clean, clutter-free, and well-stocked retail store will attract more customers.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2024

In the world of retail, creating an appealing and engaging environment for customers is crucial. If you’re curious about what is SEG and how it can transform retail spaces, it involves using high-quality printed fabrics that are seamlessly applied to lightweight, durable frames.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Your retail store is not going to be the same again. This blog talks about a few things you never knew about retail software tools and platforms. You can eliminate any potential human error by employing the most suitable retail solution for your business. The coming year is going to be a lot more exciting.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 11, 2024

This approach is now mainstream, as it provides convenience to shoppers but also benefits retailers, who can save significantly on shipping while also attempting to upsell consumers when they enter the store. They don’t usually keep products in stock, which lets retailers have smaller locations.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Walmart isnt the first retailer to begin testing body cameras as a safeguard against theft and violence, but it is one of the largest in the country to do so. The retail shoplifting prevention strategy was intended to de-escalate situations and inhibit people from doing anything untoward when they realized they would be caught on tape.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The survey found that while over 65s hold considerable spending power, they’re generally being overlooked by online retailers, with just 12% of respondents saying they felt understood by the brands they engage with. The post Online Retailers Failing To Cater For Older Shoppers first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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Rich Gee Group

JUNE 24, 2025

AI-driven restructuring has spread to retail, manufacturing, even old-guard conglomerates. Reality Check: Know the Game You’re Playing Forget whisper-level rumors. Layoffs are data points, and the data is ugly: Tech alone axed 22,000 jobs by mid-year 2025.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2023

Starting a retail shop comes with excitement, adventure, and challenges. However, with a lot of competition in the retail market, how do you make your brand unique and noticeable? This blog post will give tips to help your startup retail shop stand out. This includes a logo, color scheme, tagline, and so on.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Industries are converging (healthcare with tech, retail with SaaS), and leaders whove navigated multiple sectors bring something critical: a fresh perspective. Theyre demanding: Can they reinvent how we operate? Will they build teams that challenge assumptions? Do they thrive in uncertainty? This isnt idealismits pragmatism.

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Rich Gee Group

JULY 1, 2025

Forbes just flagged tech, retail, government, and manufacturing as 2025’s layoff hotspots, with pink-slip totals racing past the half-million mark - an 87 % jump over last year. In Part 1 we nailed your Non-Negotiable Value Proposition and crafted ROI-packed stories that shout, “Cut me and profits drop.”

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

APRIL 21, 2025

Leaders who empower their team members get better results. They make faster decisions, have the ability to act, and create dramatically better experiences for customers. Here’s how you can empower your teams. Today’s post is by Dianna Booher, author of What MORE Can I Say?

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2024

Singling out just one segment of industry, consider some of the ways retailers are putting AI to use: Every interaction online is analyzed to better understand customer’s shopping patterns, click-throughs, and page views. This information guides retailers to align their offerings with emerging trends.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the national median for retail workers to be around $16.19 This makes Hobby Lobby’s 2024 pay hike a whole 19% higher than the national median wage for retail workers. “A pillar of our success is taking care of our employees,” Hobby Lobby founder and CEO, David Green explained in the company post.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

I had been promoted to lead a 2200 person retail sales team at Verizon. And, fourteen out of fourteen had been in retail sales for their entire careers. There was one time in my career where I was absolutely certain that my team didn’t like me. The problem was I had zero sales experience.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The innovative ecommerce retailer and tech firm says that it can work out exactly what consumers select via its “walk […]. The grocery industry is going through a highly disruptive period. Amazon is now bringing a brand new business model to the sector where customers literally walk in, pick up what they want, and walk out.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Regarding budgeting for retail space, several key factors must be considered. First and foremost, you’ll need to determine how much space you need and what location you want to be in. This will largely determine your rental costs, which can vary greatly depending on factors such as the size and location of the space.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

I had been promoted to lead a 2200 person retail sales team at Verizon. And, fourteen out of fourteen had been in retail sales for their entire careers. There was one time in my career where I was absolutely certain that my team didn’t like me. The problem was I had zero sales experience.

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Leading Blog

JULY 26, 2021

We updated health and safety procedures, employed technology to streamline billing and appointment scheduling, digitized our designs, added retail elements, and provided respectable wages for our artists and employees to let them know their importance to the business. Here are some additional ways that we elevated our brand above the fray.

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HR Digest

MAY 22, 2025

The accelerating rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation may be silently driving job workforce reductions and the retail giants corporate culture. At the same time, it raises several questions about the future of retails corporate workforce. Are these job cuts a glimpse into the future of retail?

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

That’s the situation my wife and I had to content with when we contacted a major retailer. Have you ever had the experience dealing with after-sales support where you not only get the runaround, but you spend days just trying to get someone on the phone to acknowledge your problem? Click to continue reading

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 27, 2014

Retail is always a balancing act of providing great customer service and not giving away the store. We all cringed when this particular leader, let’s call him “Simon,” would walk into the store and start interacting with customers. After all, we had strict guidelines about what we could and could not do.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

Integrating young talents into decision-making processes allows organizations to tap into valuable insights, especially pertinent in sectors like fashion, food, and retail, where younger consumer preferences are pivotal.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 30, 2025

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack When I exited my corporate career more than thirty-five years ago, I was privileged to be regarded and respected as the Fashion Direction Manager for the Grace Bros Department Store group, one of Australias most senior women in retail management.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 6, 2017

As district manager of a large retail chain, she was responsible for ten stores. Marissa was frustrated. Her district was doing well, meeting sales goals and store operations were generally smooth. The problem was that her boss, the regional manager, was a micromanager. Every time an issue arose, her boss was right in the mix […].

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 2, 2023

For example, when compared to other forms of business, such as retail or e-commerce, Click to continue reading When setting up a manufacturing business there are a wide range of essential considerations that need to be accounted for. The manufacturing industry is different to many other sectors of industry for a variety of reasons.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Losses from theft, fraud, and other retail… Continue reading → Organizations would be rich if they stopped losing money. 20% of every dollar earned by a company in the US is lost to employee time theft.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2021

Thinking carefully and precisely is very hard work – perhaps even harder than the physical labor of digging ditches, or the emotional labor of smiling at retail customers. But if you actually make them think , they will hate you.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

As one of “America’s fastest-growing retailers,” Aldi’s expansion plans are extremely ambitious but considering the strategies that the company has set in place, they may not be unreasonable. While most of them have returned to work, the contract negotiations are still ongoing.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 12, 2021

Retail vs. Wholesale – I’ve long been a proponent of the idea that leadership communications can be either retail or wholesale. Retail communications is one to one. Retail communications is best used to ensure clarity around next steps, assess performance and establish connection.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 17, 2024

On a mission to make Starbucks the Best Job in Retail, the company has decided to expand its leave policy after employees indicated that its current 6-week program was insufficient for them. No other retailer offers a better parental leave benefit for new parents. store partners.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This is because the retailer is the biggest employer in the U.S. Rampant DEI backlash in corporate America has dissuaded many businesses from maintaining these policies but Walmart’s scaling back of its diversity policies is particularly notable. to do so, with over 1.6 million workers employed under its wing.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2021

In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 8, 2022

At the same time, they continue to appreciate the advantages of the shopping experience and the immediacy provided by the various retail environments. This has enabled a vital e-commerce channel infrastructure with retail stores implementing a “click and collect” delivery model.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 24, 2021

From retail to healthcare to education, we all know that customer retention is a primary objective for many organizations, and rightfully so! But what is it that causes your customers to keep coming back? It’s more than just good service: there’s a science behind brand loyalty.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 20, 2021

The country spent billions to build canals, railroads, and highways, but the money spent to buy and develop the surrounding real estate — the homes, offices, retail, and farms in the land surrounding these new transportation arteries — exceeded even that amount. Real estate was the base of the economy.

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