

Regular Contributions

Retail News Magazine
A magazine by The Canadian Gift & Tableware Association (CGTA) that focuses on the issues and topics most relevant to store owners, including products, trends, merchandising techniques and easy-to-implement business ideas
A2R Articles
Part of Advantage2Retail's Perspective a series of articles for the retail and distribution industry offered by A2R, a company with expertise in Retail IT services
These are magazines and trade publications we contribute to regularly
Focus On Shoes
A trade magazine for shoe, apparel and fashion accessory stores
Running Intelligence
A Formula4Media eNewsletter for running specialty stores
Microsoft White Papers
A series of white papers on winning strategies for the retail industry sponsored by Microsoft

James Dion explain why a coupon is more motivating to consumers than a percent discount...
Niche - What Independent Retailers Read. Winter 2011. Technology, a powerful weapon in any retailer's profit arsenal, is taking on a new and commnading form: mopbile phones...
Depending on whether you want to be the HottEST retailer, the EasiEST, the CheapEST, the BiggEST or maybe the QuickEST...
One of the most frightening purchases that a retailer ever makes is their technology. The reason for this is that...
Finding the right sales professionals to work for us has always been and will always be one of the biggest challenges of managers and business owners...
An Examination of Technologies for Retailers that Go Beyond Traditional POS, Merchandising, Customer Profiling and Financial Software
An Examination of Chain Store Productivity with a 4-Step Process to Address Problem Stores
Of all the factors influencing the retail world today, technology is having the most profound impact...
The Effects of POS Implementation and Retail Technology on Sales and Profitability for Small to Mid Sized Retailers
What if the real measure of success in the next 10 to 20 years is operating your business not the way that your parents would have...
Back in the good old days (that is what we always call 30 years ago), customers were by and large a very similar group...
At the end of the last century, Timothy Eaton pioneered a radical concept called fixed pricing...
How often have we heard this old axiom? Probably, thousands of times! The reason for this...
No business can avoid using technology. In fact, the proper deployment of technology can help cut expenses...
It has now been almost ten years that I have been ordering on line and it was only today that it dawned on me...
The Real Cost of Inventory - Why You Can Have Too Much of a Good Thing
For most independent retailers going to a trade show is the single most stressful event of the season...
It is not unusual for most retailers to consider the word "mark down" a dirty or unspeakable word...