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Retail Merchandising: Buckling Down in a Tough Economy, Benchmark Report 2009
Dramatic changes in economic conditions have accelerated changes in merchandising organizations. Localized assortments and optimized price lifecycles have become recognized necessities for retail...
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Getting Back to Good: Retail Pricing 2010
Today, the economy has stabilized and most economists report that the recession is over. As the dust settles, it appears that the ability to maintain gross margins and reduce inventory levels served...
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Defining 21st Century Merchandising: Benchmark 2010
RSR conducts benchmark studies on the state of the art and science of merchandising every year. This year, our going-in hypothesis was that after a series of fits and starts, the retail thought process...
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Optimizing Price in a Transparent World: Benchmark 2011
RSR Research’s latest report, “Optimizing Price in a Transparent World: Benchmark 2011,” RSR’s fourth annual benchmark on the topic, finds today’s retailer challenged by a sophisticated,...
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Crystal Ball 2.0: The State of Retail Demand Forecasting
The concept of “managing demand” is fairly new to retail: the idea that demand is something more than what a retailer must respond to – that it is something a retailer shapes and influences. Some might...
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Twenty-first Century Merchandising Takes Hold: Benchmark 2011
In 2010, data gathered from RSR’s annual Merchandising Benchmark Report showed a dramatic change in Retailers attitudes towards merchandise operations management. At that time, we defined seven core...
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Retail Pricing in a Post-Channel World: Benchmark Report 2012
RSR Research has conducted benchmarks of retailers’ pricing strategies since 2007. During that time, we have seen retailers swing from trying to achieve Everyday Low Price (EDLP) to hyper-promotions as...
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Optimizing Assortments to Invigorate Retail: Benchmark Report 2012
Download Report This year, we see a drastic difference in the perceived value of new merchandising tools and retailers’ understanding of how they can be effectively used to improve the product mix they...
View ArticleTough Love: An In-Depth Look at Retail Pricing Practices
Download Report Retailers continue to escalate the number of price changes they send to stores and other channels. Their field human resource infrastructure groans under the sheer weight of the work...
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Omni-Channel 2013: The Long Road to Adoption
Download Report Consumers that connect with retailers via multiple selling channels are more profitable than ones who don’t. As a result, the industry has moved from the question “Should we sell...
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Merchandising Today: Benchmark Report 2013
Download Report This year, in RSR’s sixth annual merchandising benchmark, the new digital merchant perspective comes into sharper focus — as does a host of new challenges, opportunities, and technology...
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The Pricing Paradox: Maximizing Margin In A Promotion-Driven Environment
Download Report Retailers have been along for a rough ride over the last seven years, and nowhere has this been reflected more strongly than in their price strategies. Between the rise of smartphones...
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Assortment and Planning: Changing Times, New Opportunities
Download Report Today, consumers’ paths to purchase begin in the digital domain, severely limiting retailers’ ability to analyze and influence purchase decisions. For consumers, it’s just shopping...
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Retail Growth Strategies in 2014
Download Report Retailers are driven to grow. This is a long-standing truth. Yet it would seem certain markets are saturated, while others are emerging, and ripe for retailer expansion. So, when we...
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Modern Merchandising: Managing Complexity with New Tools and Techniques
Download Report Things have changed in the world of merchandising. Driven by the ascendancy of marketing, the proliferation of product information channels, and advances in computing power, merchants...
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Advanced Analytics in Retail: Retailers Fixate On The Customer
Download Report Retailers are putting so much mind-share into analyzing customers’ digitally enabled shopping behaviors that many are missing other opportunities. For example, most retailers do not...
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Pricing 2015: Learning to Live in a Dynamic, Promotional World
Download Report When it comes to pricing, retailers stand at the intersection of many crossroads. They believe their promotions are effective, even though they don’t have a lot of measures in place to...
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Merchandising 2016: Big Changes Coming
Download Report A retailer’s assortment has always been important: in the digital age, however, it has become a matter of make or break. To compound matters, new consumer shopping behaviors have made...
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