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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

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Open to Buy: The Retail Business Art

Retailing Insight

Lots of specialty retail stores plan their business by “buying what we sold last year” or “we expect to be up 2%.” Both consume cash flow like an army of college kids at a pizza-eating contest. Big retailers have very expensive systems (read: more than a million dollars) that do this for them. These are not forecasts.

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Small Team Retailers Still Earn Big: A Review of the RIS Top 100 Retailers

Theatro

Two small team retailers hold onto large shares of the retail market for the second year in a row. Pharmacies, CVS, and Walgreens which collectively share 9.47% of the retail market, landed in the top 10 alongside retail giants, Walmart (12.67%), Amazon (10.4%), and Costco (4.65%), respectively.