Merchandising

Bernadette Clark used to visit Wal-Mart twice a week. Now it's twice a month. She got fed up last year when Wal-Mart stopped stocking some of her favorite brands and she couldn't count on low prices.

Procter & Gamble and Target have paired up to offer customers savings on a number of products designed to help them keep those fitness resolutions. From Feb. 6 through March 16, Target guests can find in-store coupons on specially marked Tide Plus Febreze Freshness Sport, Febreze Extreme SPORT Odor Eliminator and C9 by Champion, Target's exclusive active wear line.

Product is King again. After using discounts and promotions to deliver the best holiday sales performance in six years, U.S. retailers will need unique merchandise to keep the momentum going.

Investing in customer-centric proprietary product development fends off consumer ennui and extends the brand experience in all the right ways.

Seeking to bring location marketing to a hyper-local level, retailers have begun to embrace digital signage as an effective tool at their disposal. 

The Consumer Product Safety Commission continues to issue new regulations and interpretations that impact retailers — both large and small — and their product suppliers.

Millward Brown revealed findings from a recent U.S. study that looked at why people continue to shop in stores despite the convenience of online shopping.

Like many women, I'm in lust with J.Crew. I just don’t know how it does it, season after season, catalog after catalog, offer after offer, email after email. It continually tantalizes me with merchandise that inspires me to stop everything and place an order. Who can resist?

Some things never change: Leading up to Black Friday, retailers are in a frenzy to capture wallet share among consumers shopping online. However, there are a number of new trends emerging as we head into Black Friday, including surgical shopping, social shopping and the return of luxury goods to shopping carts.

One of the greatest benefits of item-level tagging for retailers is perpetual inventory management. With the increased visibility into inventory afforded by tagging, retailers have greater efficiency and accuracy in order processing based on an increased knowledge of what's in stock.