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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.
See new articles daily online at IndependentRetailer.com.
Nov 01, 2007
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.
Nov 01, 2007
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.
Nov 01, 2007
Rising healthcare costs are among small business owners' top concerns, according to two recent studies
Nov 01, 2007
There are three ways to grow a business.
Oct 01, 2007
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.
Oct 01, 2007
Whether multiple retailers join forces in one location, or one retailer segregates a department into a boutique, the store within a store concept proliferates.
Oct 01, 2007
Managing fraud is U.S. online merchants' biggest concern about accepting global payments, according to a recent study by CyberSource Corp.
Oct 01, 2007
There are very few entrepreneurs who would trade owning their own business for anything in the world.
Oct 01, 2007
Retailers have much to gain from tapping into the market of consumers who participate in sports and fitness activities.
Oct 01, 2007
Small businesses can now gain widespread dissemination of press releases via companies that distribute them over the internet.
Sep 01, 2007
Consumers are more likely to return to a website or shop in a retailer's store if they can obtain complete product information online.
Sep 01, 2007
People who love to shop, also love to talk about shopping.
Sep 01, 2007
Retailers' loss to theft is higher than many realize. Just ten percent of major retailers believed their level of shrink was high in comparison to their competitors, according to one recent study.
Sep 01, 2007
Be as careful with employees' confidential information as you are with your own.
Sep 01, 2007
Research measuring small business owners' knowledge of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) has disclosed an information gap.
Sep 01, 2007
When a business is in its first years of existence, it's very tempting for an entrepreneur to put every cent toward building the company, often at the expense of a personal financial portfolio.
Sep 01, 2007
Retail losses from theft and fraud have reached an all time high.
Sep 01, 2007
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.
Aug 01, 2007
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.
Aug 01, 2007
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.
