A Cut Above
The software conducts instantaneous square-inch analysis. In just seconds, it shows how merchandise categories trend over time or how categories without price-point bands trend. It shows how new products perform vs. continuation items for any category, subcategory, vendor or price point.
What’s more, it helps keep merchants from getting blinded by square-inch performance. It highlights best-selling products in terms of absolute sales dollars and units. “This allows us to spend more time using information to make decisions and a lot less time gathering information,” Terri Alpert says. “Because our information is in real time and there’s no need to gather it, we’re using the latest facts.” A separate company she set up, PCD Technologies LLC, owns the Internet protocol for all of this proprietary software.
