New year, new trends and new holidays to prep for. Even though the end of the year madness may be over, retailers are still working hard to deal with holiday returns and plan ahead for upcoming events. Valentine’s Day products should start going up, as well as winter clearance plan-o-grams, St. Patrick’s Day displays… there’s […]
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Five Mistakes to Avoid When Building & Designing a New Storefront
by Lizzie Weakley Brick and mortar is still a force in the market. Customers don’t always want to wait for UPS to drop products on their doorsteps. Instead, they may want to go out and shop in a public space. However, with such fierce competition from online retailers, business owners need to use some strategy. […]
Top Retail Trends for the New Year
by RRD Retail Solutions R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company (RRD), a leading global provider of multichannel solutions for marketing and business communications, unveiled the five major trends that will drive retail sales at brick-and-mortar stores. RRD currently serves 37 of the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) top 100 retailers, giving the company unique, firsthand insight on […]
Brick & Mortar Is Not Dead, But Merely Transforming
by John Liston If you read the news, you might come to the conclusion that retail is dying. You can find hundreds of articles outlining the problem of competing against Amazon or covering the high costs of working with the social media giants and online marketplaces, but what gets missed in the news is some […]
2020 Retail Predictions
New year, new business plans, new customers, new products… new you! A brand new year brings on so many exciting changes that can have a big impact on your business, and Independent Retailer is here to make sure those changes are for the better. We’ve got all the latest trends and statistics that retailers need […]
How Retailers Can Utilize Existing Technology to Optimize In-Store Experiences
by Christian Nascimento It’s likely you’ve seen the not-so-subtle sign of the season that bridges the end of fall and the beginning of winter: shopping season. For shoppers, that means deals, deals, deals. But for retailers, it means a mad dash to attract consumers’ eyeballs, awareness and — of course — wallets, to end the […]
Spring & Summer 2020 Trend Report
All the latest trends for spring and summer of 2020 are making the rounds to designers everywhere. From cool crochet to ’60s wallpaper prints, Independent Retailer has you covered with this official guide to the top trends for next year. Apparel Clothing will start the year off with a bang with even more bold colors, […]
Fashion Trends to Embrace and Avoid in 2020
by Isabella Lovett 2020 is right around the corner, and both independent retailers and their customers are bursting with excitement to see what the New Year has in store (literally). After an extensive parade of fashion shows in New York, London, Milan, and Paris showcasing the hottest designs from the world’s leading fashion labels, it […]
Capitalizing on Holiday Returns
Returns are always the grunt work of the holiday season. It’s bad enough that all the excitement is over come January 2nd, but then retail businesses get an influx of customers trying to return their holiday gifts. An Oracle Retail survey conducted by Savanta found that during the upcoming season, 77 percent of consumers surveyed […]
Being Proactive About Preventing Employee Theft
by Sabrina Schnetzer The retail industry faces many challenges when it comes to hiring and maintaining quality employees. One of the hardest problems to overcome is employee theft. An employee is 5.4 times more likely to steal from their company than a customer is. As a result, employee theft alone costs U.S. businesses $50 billion annually. […]
