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Specialty Retail Reportfunction toggle(div){var option=['homelist','register','subscribe'];for(var i=0; i  Home|Subscribe|Advertise|ShopTranslate this website...    Read by TopicRetail Staffing and HiringRunning a Cart or KioskMerchandising and MarketingRetailer ProfilesRetailing LocationsRetail ProductsRead by DateCurrent Issue: Fall 2008Magazine Issues ArchiveNews ArticlesParticipateSubscribe to the MagazineSubscribe to the SnapshotGet RSS FeedsShop the StoreCareer Center/StaffingDirectory of Useful LinksSPREE 2009Visual Victories ResourcesAbout Specialty Retail ReportAdvertise in SRRSRR Job OpeningsAdvisory BoardUpcoming EventsSPREE 2009April 2009Las Vegas, NV   Feature ArticlesOnline ExclusivesOnline Bonus ArticlesSubscribeFall 2008 FeaturesMore Articles Retail With a MissionAll That Glitters... SellsHoliday Fill-ins ShowcaseGood Hair DaysMassaging Profits in a Down EconomyTech It to the Bank  Smokin' HotSome products come along at just the right time, when societal trends and technological advances merge to create new markets for savvy entrepreneurs. Continue reading...Feature ArticlesOnline ExclusivesOnline Bonus ArticlesSubscribeOnline Exclusive ArticlesMore Articles Stop Hiring the Wrong People!Top 20 Start-up Questions for Holiday Retailers  Strategies to Prevent Shoplifting and Employee TheftThe good news is that recent estimates of shoplifting losses show a recent trend downward, but that could be reversed this year as economic pressures persist. Here's how to protect your profits. Continue reading...Feature ArticlesOnline ExclusivesOnline Bonus ArticlesSubscribeOnline Bonus ArticlesMore Articles Unique Concepts Fall 2008Projecting a Powerful Retail Identity at the AirportRecession-proof Your BusinessAirport Retail 101: Your Top 15 FAQs AnsweredUnique Concepts Summer 2008Cool, Classy and Quirky Carts and Kiosks  25 Ways to Boost Your Holiday Sales and ProfitsOnce the holiday season is underway, there's a lot you can do to land more sales and bank as much profit as possible, no matter what the economic climate. The key is to be proactive. Don't sit back and let the holiday season unfold before you. If you want the most sales possible, it's up to you to take charge and make it happen. Continue reading...Feature ArticlesOnline ExclusivesOnline Bonus ArticlesSubscribeSubscribe today!Why Subscribe?SRR will help you find exciting new products.SRR gets you the best prices on merchandise.SRR helps you discover the country's top retail locations.SRR provides tips and ideas for visual merchandising your cart or kiosk.SRR teaches you inside sales secrets to keep your employees motivated. Subscribe to Specialty Retail ReportSpecialty Retail Report is filled with valuable business information to help you expand or grow your existing business. Thinking of opening your first retail location? Specialty Retail Report is the one-stop resource for all of your retail needs. Running a specialty retail program? Don't miss a single issue filled with information to help you expand! Two ways to subscribe: Print or Digital Most Popular Unique Concepts Fall 2008 Unique Concepts Winter 2008 Unique Concepts Summer 2008 Piercing Profits: Body Jewelry Market Broadens Massaging Profits in a Down Economy T-shirt Trends: Selling through selection and service Kid-sumers: Today's Super-Spenders Seacret Spa's Secret to Success Good Hair Days Top Cart and Kiosk Turnkeys Latest NewsOctober 7I-69 (Exit 10): Mall entertains in prime location When development at Exit 10 along Interstate 69 recently exploded, two companies joined to jump at the opportunity to make the area a destination for travelers and central and east central Indiana residents.
Developers Simon Property Group and Gershman Brown Crowley Inc. built Hamilton Town Center, an outdoor mall complete with large stores, specialty shops and restaurants. The companies also own property around the mall, outlots for more stores, restaurants, banks and other development flowing into the area.
The exit’s infrastructure, with an interchange off a major thoroughfare and recently rebuilt cross street of 146th Street, was important in bringing in Hamilton Town Center. Other considerations included the demographics of the mall’s target area, which extends through Madison County and into Delaware County, Simon public relations manager Les Morris said. Read more...October 7NBC branches out with ‘Office’ sales Dunder Mifflin has a Scranton branch. And now the NBC Universal Store does, too.
The store, which sells all official NBC merchandise, including anything to do with the Scranton-set comedy, “The Office,” will install a kiosk on the first floor of The Mall at Steamtown starting Nov. 1 and continuing through Dec. 31.
As one would expect, the kiosk, which will be dubbed The Dunder Mifflin Store, will primarily sell “Office” merchandise, including the Dwight Schrute bobblehead doll, the most popular item in the store’s history. Read more...October 6Developer unveils plan to remake mall in Billings, Mont. Billings, MT — Washington state developer Bob McDonald said the West Park Plaza mall is broken and he's the man to fix it.
After unfurling bulky drawings illustrating the remake of Billings' first mall, McDonald pointed to a 150-foot-wide swath he's going to carve out of the middle of the mall, just west of the current Hastings Books Music & Videos.
The interior of the mall will be converted into an old-fashioned "Main Street" where cars can park and pedestrians can sit at tables or window shop. Read more...October 6Retail developers keep sense of humor about economy A convention for shopping center developers was a mixture of gallows humor, cautious optimism and announcements of retailers coming soon (really).
The International Council of Shopping Centers Southeast Conference on Monday convened some of the industry’s top local experts to discuss where retail development is going. Read more...October 5Full of Doubts, U.S. Shoppers Cut Spending Cowed by the financial crisis, American consumers are pulling back on their spending, all but guaranteeing that the economic situation will get worse before it gets better.
In response to the falling value of their homes and high gasoline prices, Americans have become more frugal all year. But in recent weeks, as the financial crisis reverberated from Wall Street to Washington, consumers appear to have cut back sharply. Even with the government beginning a giant bailout of the financial system, their confidence may have been too shaken for them to resume their free-spending ways any time soon. Read more...October 5Holiday sales barely predicted to rise; local retailers predict sales will be OK Beaumont, TX — Christmas has arrived at GiGi's, A Children's Boutique, on Dowlen Road.
And Halloween still is four Fridays away.
Owners Cara Kinchen and Suzette Smith already have received a shipment of Christmas clothes, and they're gearing up for the busiest shopping season of the year.
Kinchen said there hasn't been talk among customers of cutting corners this Christmas or spending less money. And she hopes she won't hear that anytime soon. Read more...October 3Rookie mistakes still impact shoppers at some retail sites, Forrester says Just like in a store, if a shopper has a bad experience on a retail web site, there’s a good chance the retailer may never see that customer again—and that customer might relay his bad experience to family and friends.
The importance of a top-notch online experience cannot be stressed enough, and retailers that hone a good online shopping experience can use it to stand out from the crowd, says Bruce D. Temkin, vice president and principal analyst of customer experience at Forrester Research Inc. Read more...October 3Old make way for new in the chain There is likely to be a shift toward the secondary market in franchising, writes Julianne Dowling.
The franchise industry is likely to go through a huge ownership shake-out over the next 12 to 18 months and will require a large surge in capital, the head of an advice group says. Adrian McFedries, the head of DC Strategy, which advises clients such as Boost Juice, Fernwood Women's Health Clubs and Mortgage Choice and is expanding into the United States, believes it's the season of the seven-year itch as more franchisees look to sell their businesses and corporate executives, made redundant, seek to find a job through buying a business.
Rod Nuttall, the national account manager of corporate financial services for the Commonwealth Bank, agrees the pressure for funding will increase over the next decade. Read more...October 3Holidays Loom, Seasonal Job Seekers Find Gloom Sacramento, CA - With more people unemployed and retailers cutting back, those looking for seasonal jobs are finding slim pickings.
Frank Chavez says he's tried everything he can think of: big box retailers, independent stores, grocery outlets, warehousing. In the past four weeks, the 20-year-old Sacramento college student has filled out 50 applications with no luck so far.
"Either you don't get a call back or they're just not looking for whatever you have to offer, I guess," said Chavez after a job interview at an Arden Fair Mall kiosk stand for Rosetta Stone language software. "A lotta people are looking for jobs, lotta people looking for second jobs. A couple of interviews I've had, they've been group interviews of anywhere from five to probably 20 (applicants)." Read more...October 1In early holiday push, Wal-Mart cutting toy prices New York - Wal-Mart Stores Inc is cutting prices on popular toys and ramping up the opening of Christmas shops in its U.S. stores as the retailer tries to win sales from cash-strapped shoppers ahead of what could be the worst holiday season in 17 years.
Wal-Mart said on Wednesday that it will sell ten toys, including certain Barbie dolls and Tonka trucks, for $10 each. It is also putting its Christmas shops on the "fast track" and intends to open the shops, which sell ornaments and holiday decor, in its stores nationwide by October 10.
Read more...Latest RRG Listings Top watch designer offers Turnkey operation (California)iso beauty inc best products for 2006-2008 (los angeles and 1500 nation wide)Wholesale handbags by KE Inc (California)TEXAS WHOLESALE GIFT ITEMS (Texas)Man Made BEADS hand setting Crystal (DIY Styles) http://www.silverbuttonjewelry.com (Bangkok Thailand)O&S Holdings (Beverly Hills, Calif.)Belle Island Village (Pigeon Forge, Tenn.)The Oaks Mall (Thousand Oaks, Calif.)Puente Hills Mall (City of Industry, Calif.)The Mall at Fairfield Commons (Beavercrek, OH)View more listings... >> Fall 2008 Issue All That Glitters... Sells Eric Andrew finds it hard to describe how he gets his ideas for the one-of-a-kind jewelry he designs, handcrafts and sells through five mall carts.
"The designs just seem to come to me," he says. "I see the materials and I need to start creating." He's been creating unique necklaces, bracelets, earrings and other pieces since 2001, and today can claim credit for more than 1,500 original designs.
Andrew, along with his mother and co-owner Mary Ellen Bandurski, can also take credit for building a growing specialty business, the Eric Andrew Collection, which focuses on unique jewelry handcrafted with CRYSTALLIZED-Swarovski Elements. Retail With a Mission Boston's Northeastern University School of Technological Entrepreneurship recently studied what drives entrepreneurs to launch new businesses. Nearly two-thirds said they were motivated by innate desire and determination, rather than by their education or work experience. Nichelle Powers is one of those entrepreneurs.
"From the time I was a kid with a lemonade stand, I knew I wanted to make and sell my own products," she says without hesitation.
Perhaps it's no surprise, then, that years after leaving her lemonade stand behind, Powers could be found earning extra money in college by selling her original handmade jewelry and other crafts to fellow students. She loved making her own products, "and the great reactions I received made me feel so inspired," but she was lacking one thing every entrepreneur needs: a clear vision of where she was headed. Smokin' Hot Some products come along at just the right time, when societal trends and technological advances merge to create new markets for savvy entrepreneurs. Piercing Profits: Body Jewelry Market Broadens "Body jewelry is a recession-proof item," says Dennis Moreno, senior vice president of sales at SalesOne International in Norwalk, CT, home of the popular Body Vibe line. "You can buy a piece of jewelry to accent your body to make yourself feel good for only $10."
If sales are any indication, shoppers love that feel-good feeling. "For eight years, we've had an increase [in sales], year over year," Moreno says. To keep those sales coming, the company is constantly introducing new designs. The Body Vibe line has evolved from 500 SKUs eight years ago to more than 12,000 today. SalesOne now wholesales to roughly 50 carts nationwide and plans to launch a cart or kiosk start-up package by the end of the year for retailers who want to get in on the action but don't want to start from scratch.
25 Ways to Boost Your Holiday Sales and Profits Once the holiday season is underway, there's a lot you can do to land more sales and bank as much profit as possible, no matter what the economic climate. The key is to be proactive. Don't sit back and let the holiday season unfold before you. If you want the most sales possible, it's up to you to take charge and make it happen. Holiday Fill-ins Showcase Our annual holiday showcase displays 29 hot holiday products. Recession-proof Your Business No matter where specialty retailers operate—mall, airport, theme park, resort, lifestyle center or anywhere else with a cart, kiosk or temporary inline program—the smartest operators take a fresh approach going into each holiday, adjusting their selling strategies as necessary. Two key questions retailers are asking themselves this year: "How is the consumer feeling as the holidays approach?" and "In light of the consumer's current mindset, what strategies can I use to position myself for most sales possible this winter?" Projecting a Powerful Retail Identity at the Airport As a visual merchandiser for a wide range of retailers, I often find myself talking with retailers about their businesses, focusing in on what retailers really sell. Products are exchanged between retailers and their customers, yes, but what's really being sold isn't sitting on the shelf.
If a shopper in an airport or mall or any other retail venue sees several jewelry carts, what makes that customer visit one cart over the other? Hint: It's not the jewelry. Unique Concepts Fall 2008 A look at 13 companies making their mark with a fresh approach to specialty retail.
Every company profiled here has its own unique approach to specialty retail, whether that means putting a fresh spin on a mainstream product or introducing a product shoppers have never seen before.
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