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INDEPENDENT RETAILER magazine is now the official news outlet for Wholesale Central visitors. Each monthly issue is packed with new product ideas, supplier profiles, retailing news, and business strategies to help you succeed.

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03/01/2008 - Vertex Launches Tax Automation Tool
Vertex Inc., a leading provider of tax technology solutions, has unveiled their Vertex O Series Retail Solution, an application that presents retailers with consistent, accurate sales tax calculations.

02/01/2008 - Retail Tax Debate
The debate on Internet taxation is underway, and not surprisingly, brick and mortar retailers online, and other direct merchants have opposing views.

02/01/2008 - Kapa Boosts Profits
Everyone knows that a great customer experience is critical for business success.

01/01/2008 - Retail Crime and eFencing
The House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on crime, terrorism and homeland security recently held a hearing, in preparation for new legislation aimed at cracking down on organized retail crime.

01/01/2008 - Generating Post Sale Buys
In the last column I provided ten sure-fire ways to REDUCE your shopping cart abandonment rate.

12/01/2007 - Source for Socks & More
K&C HOSIERY carries a wide selection of thermal long and short sleeve T-shirts, boxers, boxer briefs, athletic cut shirts and briefs in addition to socks for men, women and children.

12/01/2007 - Keyboard Stick Ons
FUNKY RICO introduces Fun Keyboard stickers for the keys of computer keyboards that give them personality and makes them easier to see and use.

12/01/2007 - Abandonment Solutions
Working hard attracting visitors, motivating them to add items to their cart, while later having them abandon the ordering process without buying is despairing.

11/01/2007 - Small Biz Seeks Health Care
Rising healthcare costs are among small business owners' top concerns, according to two recent studies

11/01/2007 - Optimizing Product Pages For Sales
Usability research from Nielsen Norman Group (E-Commerce User Experience, pg. 26) suggests that there are two primary reasons why website visitors decide not to purchase from a website:

10/01/2007 - Strategies to Skyrocket Web Sales
In the last issue of Web Wholesaler, I explained how to overcome a high bounce rate of visitors arriving on your website, only to immediately leave without taking one step deeper into your site.

10/01/2007 - Stores Within Stores
Whether multiple retailers join forces in one location, or one retailer segregates a department into a boutique, the store within a store concept proliferates.

09/01/2007 - Web Profits: Proven How-To Strategies to Skyrocket Web Sales
Last month I presented the importance of knowing your website performance numbers. Knowing these numbers enables you to decide where to focus your efforts, including time and money to increase your website sales.

09/01/2007 - Protecting SS Numbers
Be as careful with employees' confidential information as you are with your own.

09/01/2007 - Innovative Products From Hi-Dow
Hi-Dow began in 2002 as the U.S. distribution point for the Massage Mouse, the U.S. version of a successful product manufactured and distributed in China.

06/01/2007 - Vietnam Trade Monitoring
American retailers have sharply curtailed orders for apparel from Vietnam since our government began a program of monitoring imports, with an eye to possible antidumping actions, according to the National Retail Federation.

05/01/2007 - Versatile Walking Stick
SIRIUS COMFORT BODY LLC introduces the StiGuard walking stick, which offers multiple features that add safety and convenience at a touch of a switch.

05/01/2007 - BOC vs. POP
Now more than ever, retailers are processing customers' checks electronically. Image exchange, or electronic check conversion via the Automated Clearing House (ACH) network, are valid options.

04/01/2007 - SBA Ups '08 Budget
President Bush has announced a proposed increase in the 2008 budget for the U.S. Small Business Administration.

04/01/2007 - Last Minute Tax Tips
The old adage that just two things are inevitable: death and taxes, fails to show another similarity these two subjects have in common: People like to put off thinking about them.

04/01/2007 - Avoiding the Discount Trap
Many small retailers view markdowns as an almost inevitable conclusion at the end of a season, particularly if the sales expected in peak weeks don't materialize.

03/01/2007 - Minimum Wage Debate
As the House and Senate try to come to a meeting of the minds on minimum wage legislation, retailers, small business owners and others weigh in on the consequences of adding an extra $2.10 an hour.

03/01/2007 - Empathy Engine Serves Customers
Could an idea as old and familiar as good customer service really be a new challenge for business?

02/01/2007 - Crystal Manicure Files
95° & SUNNY INC. carries a line of crystal glass manicure files that are available with more than 100 different hand painted designs.

02/01/2007 - Borrowing to Expand Your Business
It takes money to expand a business. Banks exist to lend money, and they offer a wide variety of ways to fund small business growth.