When it comes to successfully making a return on investment for your retail business, it’s critical to have a solid retail planning strategy. Whether you’re selling toiletries, fashion, or furniture, retail planning is essential to guarantee you not only make a reasonable profit but avoid running your business into the ground.

Online sales will reach 22% of global retail sales by 2023, according to eMarketer. Since eCommerce sales accounted for 13% of total sales in the third quarter of 2021 in the US alone, it seems to check out. Here What Is Digital Merchandising and How Do You Implement It?

Planning the layout of your store is both an art and a science — it requires creativity, psychological insights, and testing. Look at Store Layout Design. In this article, we’ll explore common tactics that you can implement when planning the arrangement of your store. Go through them below and see if you can apply any of these

Retail stores come in all shapes and sizes, but there is one thing that many of them have in common: they employ cashiers. Sure, bigger players in the grocery spaces have started implementing self-checkout; but for most small to medium retailers, the role of the cashier continues to be a vital one. Look at How to Hire a Cashier.

If there was an easy way to entice your shoppers to make more purchases while in your store, would you do it? Chances are, that you would. The good news is that there are plenty of ways to make that happen — starting with your checkout counter and cash wrap. Look at 7 Retail Cash Wrap Tips to Help You Increase Sales at the Checkout Counter.

This post offers tips and insights to help you do just that. Our hope is by the end of the article, you and your staff will be more prepared to handle difficult shoppers. Look at the How to Deal with Difficult Customers: 11 Proven Tips for Retailers.

Loss prevention continues to be a major concern for retailers, and for good reason: losses due to employee theft, admin errors, and shoplifting cost you a lot of money. According to the NRF, the US retail economy lost $45.2 billion in 2015 due to shrinkage. Look at the Retail Loss Prevention: 7 Powerful Tools & Technologies to Help You Reduce Shrinkage.

One of the things that makes running a retail store so interesting and fun (most days) is the fact that you can encounter an array of characters at your shop. From easy-going shoppers who make small talk, to customers on a mission who just want to get in and out of the store, retailers deal with var...