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

09/01/2007 - Plus Sizes Growing
Demand for fashion by overweight people is expected to create a $107 billion market by 2012, according to a new report.

09/01/2007 - ONLINE Security Gap
There is a wide gap between the standards for credit card security and security measures actually in place among web retailers.

09/01/2007 - Fab Footwear ONLINE
Did you know that Zappos.com went from $8.5 million in revenue five years ago to $597 million in 2006?

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 - Choosing The Right SHOPPING Cart
Without a stable SHOPPING cart that is easy for customers to navigate, etailers will find themselves at a distinct disadvantage

08/01/2007 - Apparel Heats Up Fall Sales
Few product categories match apparel when it comes to merchandising revenue from August through the rest of the year.

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 - Web Profits: Strategies to Skyrocket Sales
Increasing website sales is a process involving three, primary components.

07/01/2007 - Savvy Retailers Seek Hot Holiday Products
It is coming up fast: that time of year when the jingle of sleigh bells equals the jingle of change in the registers of savvy retailers.

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 - 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 - Retailers Gain Edge ONLINE
Wholesale websites have transformed the buying process for many independent retailers.

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.

06/01/2007 - Marketing With Blogs & RSS
One of the most important elements of success in business is interaction between seller and buyer.

06/01/2007 - Discover Your Audience
It is not enough to decide to create a blog: a business must also determine who its audience will be and where to find them

04/01/2007 - Web Re-Design For Success
Most experts advise web marketers to do a fairly complete overhaul of their site designs once every two or three years. Some say that you should redesign every single year, in order to stay ahead or at least level with the competition.

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 - Keeping SHOPPING Carts Safe
A wholesaler's ONLINE SHOPPING cart is the backbone of the business, so taking care of it is essential.

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.

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 - Social Retailing
A new in-store SHOPPING experience, called, "Social Retailing," is designed to target young consumers.

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 - DVA Spells Entertainment
Beginning in the late 1980s as a wholesaler of videos, DVA has grown and thrived through flexibility and expansion of product offerings. It now supplies a full range of products related to entertainment.

03/01/2007 - CloseoutCentral.Com: Web Buying & Selling Made Easy
Buyers searching for the best deals on the latest closeout merchandise should look no further than Closeoutcentral.com, the nation's leading directory of closeout suppliers and 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 - Develop Vendor Partners
While an entrepreneur's own energy and resourcefulness are critical to the success of retail kiosk and cart programs, vendor support is also crucial.

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.

02/01/2007 - Dawn of mCommerce
Multi-channel marketing adds another channel: mCommerce, which is SHOPPING on mobile phones. While wildly popular overseas, mCommerce is only now beginning to pop up in the U.S.

01/01/2007 - Products & Prices Drive Sales At CloseoutCentral
For the last 10 years, the Internet has been building steam towards becoming the dominant medium of the future for business to business trade. And CloseoutCentral.com has been leading the way, step by step, as this revolution has taken place.

01/01/2007 - Positive Marketing From Your Limited Database
Discouraged by your limited ability to target past customers? Whether you are in wholesale or retail, you are not alone. Even some of today's fastest growing companies do not have their web divisions set up the way they want or need them to be. So how can you compensate if you do not have precious data on visitors because you do not have a proper analytics program?

01/01/2007 - Many Unhappy Returns
It is not just a sweater that's too small or a duplicate blender that will be returned to a store after the holidays. Honest shoppers will be joined at the return counter by a growing number of increasingly sophisticated crooks.

01/01/2007 - Managing Shipping
The cost of shipping a one pound box from L.A. to New York can range anywhere from $1.73 to $69.73, depending on shipping options. A Forrester Research study for Shop.org says ONLINE sales of items shipped are expected to increase 20 percent this year, to approach $132 billion.

01/01/2007 - Converting Shoppers Into Buyers
Dollars spent on improving the SHOPPING experience can significantly increase a retailer's sales and earnings. Specifically, building a multi channel capability can pay big dividends, according to a new study from Deloitte & Touche USA.