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Your Customers Are Making You Crazy! Don’t Take it Personal. Think Lifetime Value.

As a specialty retailer it’s so easy to feel betrayed by your customers. Even your most loyal customers can burn you. After all, how many times have you gone the extra mile for a customer only to have them show up at your store to return that specialty wetsuit that you bent over backwards to […]

How to improve your retail business by managing inventory

Every single retailer I have ever chatted with has overbought inventory at one point or another. This is a fact of life. What do you do when you have too much inventory? There are three main strategies to reduce your excess inventory as a retailer. There’s a fast strategy—most commonly associated with an inventory blowout—or […]