Retail Agenda

Meet Carl Schartau – the retailer with a good amount of entrepreneurship and resourcefulness, who successfully developed his grocery store to a vibrant business, customised for the specific residents of the area. As a result, he...

When I go shopping in any of the many shopping malls in Malaysia or Singapore I often end up in a department store glancing at men’s apparel, accessories or fragrances.

It’s nice to just stroll around looking, touching and...

StrongPoint’s Kęstutis Kadelskas wandered the hallways of Euro-CIS recently and collected trends and news along the way. Here is his report.

Who has your card details? And who has mine? Now, I use cards quite a lot on the internet for purchases of different sorts. Particularly within the EU, where I enjoy the one big open market possibilities. But giving my personal...

Retail loss prevention is important in all types and sizes of stores. Shoplifting and employee theft is a large part of retail loss and has a serious impact on your bottom line. 2014 shoplifting was estimated to be as much as 31%...

Product positioning is essential to retail. The product’s position in the store and on the shelf is determined based on sales data and customer behaviour with the aim of maximising profit. The product position therefore...

Retailers do a significant amount of cash handling every day. Did you know that with traditional cash handling, a banknote is touched at least eight times before it is deposited? Over time, this amounts to many hours of work –...

When visiting a store in the future, how will the checkout work? Perhaps by a simple flick of your hand, you pay for the purchase and alert your shopping drone. Or perhaps the checkout works like this: Uma, my favourite checkout...

Valentine's Day has become one of the most lucrative holidays for retailers. Even though the holiday is biggest in the US, the habit of buying presents for Valentine's Day has spread to every corner of the world. Most Valentine's...

Every year shrinkage cost retailers globally 123.4 billion USD*. For a retailer, already struggling with increased competition and tight margins, this is money right down the drain.