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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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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.

12/01/2007 - Amazon.com Ranked #1
Though customers have infinite options for shopping online, a few companies stand out as favorites, according to an inaugural Favorite 50 survey, conducted by BIGresearch.

12/01/2007 - Home Depot Targets Women
Home Depot's newest retail laboratory has opened in Charlotte, SC.

11/01/2007 - Web Apparel Sales Skyrocket
Apparel has become the largest and fastest growing component of internet product sales. Combined online sales of apparel, footwear and fashion accessories, excluding jewelry, moved ahead of computer hardware and software in 2006.

11/01/2007 - Stress Shopping Experience
Retailers and shopping center owners need to do more than put products on shelves and hope that consumers will buy them.

11/01/2007 - Revamped Travel Site Increases Conversions
With ecommerce easily being more than a decade old, one might think that the art of site design would be a little further along than it is.

11/01/2007 - Email Results
Engaging online customers requires more than quick thank you notes for buying or signing up for newsletters.

11/01/2007 - Websites to Get Facelifts
As today's SHOPPERS become more discriminating about their interactions online, the stakes are being raised for retailers to provide a consistently positive, more sophisticated experience.

10/01/2007 - OfficeMax Aids Small Biz
VistaPrint Ltd., an online supplier of graphic design services and customized printed products for small businesses, is going into retail stores through an alliance with OfficeMax Inc.

10/01/2007 - Linking Housewares To Foods
Today's specialty food market is vibrant and growing, and it's an opportunity for housewares retailers to grow their business

09/01/2007 - Web Info Breeds Sales
Consumers are more likely to return to a website or shop in a retailer's store if they can obtain complete product information online.

09/01/2007 - Social Shopping Sites
People who love to shop, also love to talk about shopping.

09/01/2007 - Shopping By GPS
Mobile phone providers Sprint, Nextel, and GPSHOPPER have teamed up to launch a service that uses the web and global positioning technology to guide SHOPPERS to products they want and the local stores that carry them.

09/01/2007 - Match Landing Pages To Messages
Web retailers that are good at developing personalized email campaigns often lose potential business because of lackluster page optimization, according to a study from Silverpop Systems Inc.

09/01/2007 - Back to School Update
Spending on back to school merchandise this fall is expected to average $563.49, up 6.9 percent from last year's average of $527.08.

08/01/2007 - Web Bankers Spend Big
Fifty percent of consumers who both shop and bank online spend 117 percent more than the average web SHOPPER, according to a new study by J.C. Williams Group. This means opportunities for online merchants.

08/01/2007 - Tailored Emails Boost Sales
Personalized email messages can boost website visits.

08/01/2007 - Stores Catching Up Online
Retailers that only sell online are rated higher in customer satisfaction than websites operated by brick and mortar retailers. But the latter group is catching up.

08/01/2007 - Simple Navigation
Avoid clever and unique features when designing web site navigation, advises consultant Jennifer Bailey of Red Spade, a firm that specializes in web site usability.

08/01/2007 - SHOPPERS Want Info
The ability to research products online is very important to retail SHOPPERS, according to a new study conducted for WebCollage.

07/01/2007 - Web Research Impacts Store Sales
Online research influences sales of more than $400 billion made in stores, according to Forrester Research. The company predicts that figure will exceed $1.1 trillion by 2012.

07/01/2007 - RightNow Delivers CRM Solution
RightNow Technologies debuts RightNow Retail, a new offering that combines next generation customer relationship management (CRM) solution.

07/01/2007 - Merchants Set Up Shop at Facebook
Facebook Inc., the online social network with 24 million active users, now allows merchandisers to develop applications that its users can add to their personal pages. Various name brands have already jumped into the fray.

07/01/2007 - Free Seminars at August Merchandise
ASD/AMD is offering Complimentary Seminars with registration for the August 12-16, 2007 ASD/AMD Trade Shows in Las Vegas.

07/01/2007 - Clothing Trumps Computers Online
As total web sales are projected to hit $259 billion this year, some shifts are taking place among the top selling online product categories.

06/01/2007 - Sending Email Images
More and more web wholesalers and retailers are using photos in their email campaigns to show off their hottest product lines.

06/01/2007 - New Web Tactics Engage Buyers
Video streamlining and social networking are among the tactics online retailers are utilizing to engage SHOPPERS, increase shopping trips and build loyalty.

05/01/2007 - Tweeter Tweaks Biz
Tweeter Home Entertainment, the Canton, MA electronics retailer, is closing 49 under performing stores from its current portfolio of 153. It is exiting California, Tennessee, Alabama, New York, and parts of Georgia.

05/01/2007 - SHOPPERS Cotton to Email
Email marketing is a hit with SHOPPERS, according to a new report from Forrester Research.

05/01/2007 - Kohl's New Strategy
In an attempt to get more customers to shop more departments, Kohl's Department Stores has embarked on a new marketing effort titled, "Explore the Store."

05/01/2007 - Coping With The Housing Market
A study by Deloitte Touch, based on concerns that consumer spending may slowdown due to continued weakness in the housing market.

05/01/2007 - Combating ID Theft
The disclosure that TJX Cos.' computer breach leaked information on more than 45 million accounts makes it clear that retailers need to take steps to combat ID theft.

04/01/2007 - Web Browsing And Store Sales
Online research by consumers is not just a convenience they like: It is a major driver of in store sales, and its influence is growing.

04/01/2007 - Wealthy Love Bargains
F. Scott Fitzgerald once said that the rich are different from the rest of us.

04/01/2007 - Kohl's Adds Chaps
Kohl's Corp. has signed agreements to introduce the Chaps Home Collection and a line of women's apparel carrying the Elle magazine brand.

04/01/2007 - Google Premieres Checkout
Google unveiled a series of aggressive money saving promotions over the past few months, intended to hasten the adoption of its new Google Checkout feature among online retailers and consumers.

04/01/2007 - Continental Offers TLC to Retailers
Based on their own need for products at great prices, auctioneers Bud Nelson and Joel Orr discovered overstocks, returns, closeouts, liquidations, surplus and salvage, available from major retailers across the Midwest.

03/01/2007 - Time Values
Two online SHOPPERS seeking to buy the exact same item may have very different ideas about what constitutes a satisfying online experience. How a SHOPPER values his or her use of personal time is the differentiator, according to a new study.

03/01/2007 - Teens And The Web
Teenage SHOPPERS are becoming increasingly influential online consumers, according to a new report from JupiterResearch.

03/01/2007 - Social Retailing
A new in-store shopping experience, called, "Social Retailing," is designed to target young consumers.

03/01/2007 - PC Costly for Big Boxes
Political correctness at some of the country's big box chains may explain why Best Buy and others underperformed over the 2006 holidays, and why some independents thrived.

03/01/2007 - Multiple Shopping Channels
Retailers can no longer rely on their stores alone to draw customers, as consumers are equally drawn to other channels, such as the world wide web and catalogs.

03/01/2007 - Halloween Grows Up Online
Halloween has always been a seasonal marketplace about costumes, decorations, parties and candy.

03/01/2007 - Fickle Frequent Buyers
While multichannel SHOPPERS have proven to be big spenders, they're not as loyal as their single channel counterparts.

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 - Winning Marketing Tactics
Although marketing principles have been tested for decades, many small business owners fail to make a commitment to marketing.

02/01/2007 - Walgreens Adds Jewelry & More
Walgreens, the nation's largest drugstore chain, is reaching well beyond traditional drug store products with the addition of fashion jewelry, apparel and other lifestyle products.

02/01/2007 - Personalize Web Shopping
Personalization techniques can not only help an online retailer get more customers, it can also build loyalty and add to tickets by cross selling and getting more SHOPPERS to trade up.

02/01/2007 - Icing on Your Email Cake
Prettying up an email marketing campaign can boost conversion rates, according to a study of best practices by Silverpop Systems Inc.

02/01/2007 - Holiday Web Sales Update
Online retail holiday sales hit $15.6 billion, and were up 25 percent over corresponding days in 2005, according to a report by comScore Networks.