Tag Archives: Retail Thoughts

Online Mother’s Day shoppers clearly think Mom (and grandmothers and sisters, among others) rule. According to the latest NRF / Shop.org consumer survey conducted by BIGresearch earlier this month, one in five consumers celebrating Mother’s Day this year will buy some portion of their gifts for the occasion online. As I mused recently when we released [...]

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Nearly 150 Shop.org and NRF members registered for a webinar this week focused on Picking the Winning Merchandising Tactics. The event featured executives from the e-tailing group, REI.com and BestBuy.com and received some great feedback from attendees. We thought we would share some notes from the webinar with you below. For Shop.org and NRF members [...]

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The NRF Foundation’s 8th annual “Retail Horizons: Benchmarks for 2009, Forecasts for 2010” study is out – as always, it’s a treasure trove of data about just about every aspect of retail. Released in partnership with KPMG LLP, the 300+ retailers who participated in this study are heavily focused on improving their online operations, including fine [...]

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Back by popular demand for the third consecutive year, we will be featuring our “40+ Things You Can Do To Make More Money Next Week” session.  This is our highest ranked and most popular afternoon breakout session and we want to hear from you about what specific and practical tip you feel is the most [...]

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Working on your site merchandising roadmap? Join us on April 20th as executives from Best Buy, REI and the e-tailing group lead a members-only webinar exploring how two retailers that have found success in merchandising by combining high-caliber customer service with stellar site experience. Shop.org and NRF members will be the first to hear the [...]

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