Every week, JCK’s Big Picture Monday
rounds up the most interesting stories about trends in retailing:
– Shoppers more
“surgical.”
– “Black Friday Week” now
“Black Friday month.”
– Fifty things retail employees should never do before the holidays.
– A new resource for retailers: Mint
data.
– Stores are
getting smaller.
– Law changes rules
for gift cards.
– “Return fraud” costly
for retailers.
– People who sold their store, then
bought it back.
– Consumers have mixed feelings about pre-Christmas promos.
– Web trends that will
impact your business in 2011.
– Word of mouth still best
customer driver.
– Pop-up stores considered great
buzz-builder.
– Ways to publicize without
a publicist.
– Companies turn workers into “evangelists.”
– iPad increasingly used as sales tool.
– TV shopping “still
thriving.”
– Consumers shopping for
online coupons.
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