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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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01/01/2009 - ONLINE Buyers Expand Spending
Big ticket items, such as home appliances, have been among the products to be least purchased ONLINE.

01/01/2009 - New Products or Tried and True?
Successful carts and kiosks stop traffic. That can be accomplished with unique products that passersby haven't seen anywhere else, or with items that add a new twist to enduring best selling concepts.

01/01/2009 - Excess Holiday Inventory
With the holidays receding in the rearview mirror, RETAILers from all niches will need to send back pallets of excess merchandise inventory.

12/01/2008 - Web Video Marketing Soars
RETAILers will increase their spending on ONLINE video marketing campaigns at an annual growth rate of 73 percent over the next several years, according to a Forrester Research study.

12/01/2008 - Swiss Watches for All Buyers
SwissOutpost.com, a carrier of high - end Wenger watches, is one of only two companies in the U.S. privileged to sell products on the Internet that are made by Victorinox Swiss Army.

12/01/2008 - Shoptopia Merges Bricks and Clicks
Malls in Virginia and Nevada have launched a social shopping site to drive ONLINE shoppers to their local RETAILers.

12/01/2008 - RETAILers Smell Success with Scented Products
Relatively inexpensive and enjoyable gift products sell all year. Birthdays, anniversaries, baptisms, bar mitzvahs and other occasions prompt consumers to constantly be gifting.

12/01/2008 - In-Store Pickup Improves
Shoppers who order ONLINE for in-store pickup are more likely to find the item ready and waiting when they arrive at the store this year.

12/01/2008 - High-Flying Sales at HobbyTron.com
HobbyTron.com was founded more than eight years ago as a niche RETAIL provider for enthusiasts of electronic kits.

12/01/2008 - Good Web Shopping
If a shopper has a bad experience on a RETAIL website, the ONLINE merchant may never see that shopper again, just as a store would not regain a disappointed shopper.

12/01/2008 - Easy Shopping At Shoenet.com
New sites emerge daily on the Internet. Conversely, countless sites fail. The result of this continuing shakeout is that one site often comes to dominate its category.

12/01/2008 - E-Tail Marketplaces
Small and mid-sized ONLINE merchants who have not experimented with e-tail marketplaces are leaving money on the table.

11/01/2008 - Village Wrought Iron: A Touch of Tradition
In a high-tech world where manufacturing mass quantities has become the cost-effective norm, it is refreshing to find a company that retains traditional values of domestic labor and hand-crafting.

11/01/2008 - Top Sellers for Parks, Resorts and Gaming
The Internet has become a terrific resource for RETAILers who sell memorabilia and novelty products at shops and stands located near tourism attractions across the country.

11/01/2008 - RETAILers See Strength ONLINE
ONLINE RETAILers reported profitability last year and believe ONLINE shopping will be more resilient than other channels in the months ahead, according to a newly released study by Forrester Research for Shop.org.

11/01/2008 - Holiday Email Tips
Major ONLINE RETAILers began sending holiday emails on October 28th last year, 58 days before Christmas, according to a new report.

11/01/2008 - Consumers Love Coupons
As Americans attempt to stretch their disposable dollars, we are becoming a nation of coupon clippers.

11/01/2008 - Challenging Holiday Season
Forecasters see gains in RETAIL sales over the holidays, but the gains are expected to be less than in years past.

10/01/2008 - Vitamin Shoppe Opens Web Dialog
Vitamin Shoppe jumps on the intent trend of opening up an ONLINE community, in which it engages in a dialog and interacts with customers and prospects.

10/01/2008 - Prep Websites for Holidays
More consumers are expected to shop ONLINE this holiday season. Now is the time to make sure your RETAIL website is ready to maximize the potential.

10/01/2008 - Mediak Lets the Kids Do the Talking
Earlier this year, Mediak vice president, Junnie Sublett, was working her booth at a fundraising show in San Diego. She was looking to pick up sales leads and generally network at the show.

10/01/2008 - Custom Marketing From Buy Wise
BUY WISE has introduced a custom, personalized Relationship Marketing software program for everyone, including RETAILers, that enables them to stay in touch with customers, friends, and prospects frequently, easily, and personally.

10/01/2008 - Congress Eyes Hot Web Goods
A bill submitted in Congress would require operators of web auction sites to identify and review the operations of those suspected of selling high volumes of merchandise stolen from RETAIL stores.

09/01/2008 - Web Shoppers Cut Store Buys
An increasing number of ONLINE buyers have reported that their web purchases have reduced their buying of similar items in RETAIL stores, according to the 2008 Digital Future Project from the Center for the Digital Future.

09/01/2008 - Web Satisfaction Survey
Satisfaction with ONLINE RETAILers varies by ethnic group, according to a survey by research and consulting firm, Forrester Research.

09/01/2008 - The Facebook Edge
Many leading web RETAILers are losing ground to competitors in marketing to young adults by not maintaining a fan page on the social networking site Facebook.com.

09/01/2008 - Snare Holiday Shoppers
Three sure fire tactics for engaging holiday shoppers ONLINE are: 1) an ever changing list of top gift items, 2) gift finders and 3) limited time sale offers. So say several ONLINE RETAIL experts.

09/01/2008 - Ranking Wholesale Marketplaces
In this Internet era, sifting through all the available ONLINE marketplaces and search engines to find a wholesale supplier can be extremely time-consuming.

09/01/2008 - Inflation Dilutes Rebate Impact
While acknowledging that the government's rebate checks intended to stimulate the economy have helped significantly.

09/01/2008 - Ebay to Emphasize Fixed-Price Sales Format
Acknowledging that most ONLINE shoppers cannot be bothered with auctions, eBay plans Wednesday to announce changes to its fee structure that emphasize fixed prices over bidding.

09/01/2008 - Call Center Tracking
In general, RETAILers' call centers are helping to solve their shoppers' problems.

09/01/2008 - Best Buy Music Centers
Best Buy Co. Inc. has unveiled an initiative that sets aside store space for an array of musical instruments and gear in dozens of its locations nationwide.

09/01/2008 - Back to School Trends
One fifth of parents nationwide have set aside a portion of their stimulus check for back to school purchases

09/01/2008 - 15,000 Choices and Growing
Web Wholesaler is always interested in a true sensation, and SourcingMap.com certainly meets our criteria. The company's roots formed in 2004, with five guys working part-time, buying through public channels and selling on eBay without a website.

08/01/2008 - Long Waits Harm RETAILers
One in ten shoppers will leave a checkout line if the wait is too long.

08/01/2008 - Great Selection at Blanket Depot
George Merling, President of Blanket Depot, could be called a "Blanket Barron." Though it is only a five-year-old company, Blanket Depot has close to 2,500 blanket designs on their website.

08/01/2008 - Footwear & Apparel Forecast
Few categories can match the Footwear & Apparel niches when it comes to cultivating revenue from August through December. From Back-to-School to Christmas, consumers are buying shoes and clothes for school, work and gifting occasions.

08/01/2008 - Fighting Organized RETAIL Crime
As organized RETAIL crime continues to plague the industry, RETAILers are getting more serious about uncovering, dismantling and prosecuting the responsible individuals and crime rings.

08/01/2008 - Fees Squelch Web Sales
One reason why ONLINE shoppers abandon shopping carts is the shipping fee, according to a recent survey by comScore Inc., conducted by PayPal.

08/01/2008 - Easy DVD Profits
Those who equate low priced DVDs with poor quality have never purchased from SuperDVDMart.com, a company which manufactures about 100,000 DVDs on-site every day using professional, digitized, high-definition printing.

08/01/2008 - Broadband Ramps Up
Two separate studies show that broadband is having an increasingly positive impact on Internet sales.

07/01/2008 - Windfall Of Success For Iron Stop
The process today of manufacturing wind spinners is not much different than it was when Ron Spinks, President of Iron Stop, came up with the idea and began creating them in his garage.

07/01/2008 - Win with Liquidation.com
You might think that a website like Liquidation.com would balk at the suggestion that it is, "the eBay for wholesale liquidations."

07/01/2008 - Office Depot Teams with Google
Office Depot Inc. has launched an ONLINE business resource center with Google, to give small RETAILers access to Google's marketing and business tools.

07/01/2008 - Nostalgia Reigns At Desperate Enterprises
In his book, "Walden," Henry David Thoreau asked, "Why should we be in such a desperate haste to succeed in such desperate enterprises?

07/01/2008 - Nordstrom Adds Store Pick-Up
By September, Nordstrom Inc. expects to enable shoppers at its website to pick up product at the nearest store.

07/01/2008 - Meeting Global Challenges
The decline of the U.S. dollar has led many domestic ONLINE RETAILers to consider targeting international markets as a way of expanding their customer base and revenue.

07/01/2008 - JSK Computer Services: Buyers' One-Stop Shop
Jeffrey Kodba was a 24-year-old college graduate making use of his diploma working as an IT technician, sharing an apartment with his brother, Joseph, and enjoying his life in Pittsburgh.

07/01/2008 - FTC Proposals Hit Resistance
The volume of information Internet companies gather about consumers has long raised concerns over privacy.

07/01/2008 - Buyers Network Speeds Transactions
In addition to all its free and convenient features, WholesaleCentral.com also allows users to utilize a free Buyers Network.