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Open to Buy: The Retail Business Art

Retailing Insight

When done well, it creates an integrated buying and merchandising approach that ties together your marketing, customer service, point of sale, accounting, and operations and focuses all of them on one thing: great cash flow. Lots of specialty retail stores plan their business by “buying what we sold last year” or “we expect to be up 2%.”

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What is Omni-channel Retail?

Retail Bound

The retail landscape has been dramatically changing in recent years, forcing businesses to accommodate multiple channels when selling to consumers. When it comes to offline retail sales, one of the most popular retail channels is still brick-and-mortar stores. It is a $3.9