by faceless b
Article by kim and dutch
The quote is 2,500 years old and never more appropriate than today: “Change is the only constant.”
And in few places is that more apparent than in the retail industry.
Retail as it is today faces a new kind of buyer, new kinds of competition, and higher [...]
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Cambridge News
We're top for shops out of 83 locationsCambridge NewsThe mystery shoppers from Skillsmart Retail gave independent retailers across the city an average score of 90.8 per cent – well above the benchmark score of 80 per cent. More than 30 independent retailers were visited by the mystery shoppers. …and more »
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by doyoubleedlikeme
Article by Infinity
Thistle Company of Australia (TCOA or Thistle) is a privately held company that owns and operates Australia’s largest independent network of Shell-branded service stations and adjoined retail premises.
Headquartered in Brisbane, and operating across Queensland and New South Wales, Australia, Thistle operates in regional locations. Its closest outlet is located a [...]
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by Fitch Resource Library
Article by kim and dutch
The World’s Greatest Businessââ,¬”Retail Sales Online
Retail sales online offer unparalleled opportunity for start-up businesses and for added growth for existing retail businesses.
But are online sales ââ,¬Å”the Worldââ,¬â,,¢s Greatest?ââ,¬Â
Check out some of these trends, then you decide.
Looking Ahead
Even in the midst of one of the [...]
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Krasdale Foods Offers Retailer-Customers Mobile Scanning UpgradeProgressive GrocerKrasdale is a privately held grocery wholesaler that distributes supplies and dry groceries to independent retail supermarkets ranging in the New York Metro area ranging from small convenience stores to large voluntary supermarkets. …and more »
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by infomatique
What goes around comes around…
Charting the rise and fall of electronic stores group Loyds is to uncover a retail enigma on a complex scale.
Based in the North West of England the original Loyds Retailers was a subsidiary of Ada Halifax owned by Philips.
Ada (Associated Domestic Alliances) was used by Philips as a holding [...]
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The Age
Big two could get chance at FranklinsStock and LandMr Sims told ABC-TV's Inside Business yesterday that if the Metcash deal did not proceed, the best offer was likely to come from a consortium of independent retailers. If Pick 'n' Pay sold the stores individually, the ACCC would look at the impact on …ACCC Scrutinizes [...]
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by doyoubleedlikeme
Article by Phil Conibere
Vertar, the top independent UK automotive retailer, have announced the launching of two new products – PogoAlert and PogoDrive – to the car accessories market.PogoAlert offers a GPS speed camera detector, providing a fully portable safety and speed camera warning system that uses the latest GPS satellite technology. What’s [...]
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Don't Subsidize Big Boxes at Local Shops' ExpenseBusinessWeekIndependent retailers also suffer By Stacy Mitchell Sifting though the postmortem news of Borders Group's demise, I came across a local newspaper story about a California town that had spent $ 1.6 million to lure a Borders bookstore to a local shopping …
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by The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
Who knew that a retailer’s once-valuable and suitable point-of-sale system would become as useless as an old, antiquated typewriter? And then curse the day they got it? It happens. And worse, it keeps them operating at lower standards than other retailers who have stepped up to better technology.
Technology always [...]
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