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Introduction to Electronic Retailing

E-retailing, or electronic retailing, involves selling goods online, primarily through the internet. It emerged in the 1990s and is a subset of e-commerce, specifically following the B2C model....

Effective Retail Window Displays

Retailing begins with the quest to attract more people to the store. The exterior of the store is the first attraction for the passers-by. A well-decorated store front can make the people stop and at ...

Role of Supply Chain in Indian Organized Retail Sector

The supply chain plays a crucial role in the growth of India's organized retail sector by ensuring efficient logistics, inventory management, and cost reduction. As demand increases, retailers must...

Luxury, Near Luxury & Standard Apparels - The Challenges Facing Fashion

The fashion industry faces challenges with rapidly changing trends and brand positioning. Luxury, near-luxury, and standard retailers target different income groups, with economic downturns affecting ...

Retail Software: Knowing About It

Retail software is used during transactions, often functioning as an electronic cash register. Initially developed in 1973, it evolved with the internet & Windows. Modern systems are low-cost,...

Deviant Displays - New Trend in Window Fashion

Window displays, a key element of visual merchandising, communicate style, content, and emotions to engage customers. Traditionally pleasant, recent trends have introduced deviant, creepy displays to ...

Changing Retail Modifies IT Strategies

Alan Morris emphasizes the need for retailers to rethink their IT strategies to stay ahead of constant market changes. He advocates focusing on customer behavior, integrating mobile and online...

'Forecasting the Retail Future' Trends for 2010

In 2010, key apparel retail trends include shifting departmental store dynamics, increased sustainability efforts, higher technology investments, U.S. stores expanding into China, and growing demand...

Black Friday "a purple day for retailers"

Black Friday, marking the start of the Christmas shopping season, is expected to be a profitable day for US retailers despite recession concerns. With sales anticipated to rise 16%, retailers are...

Retail Sector Income to Grow More in 2009-10

The Indian retail market, ranked as the fifth-largest globally, is expected to see consistent growth, with major retail players' income rising by over 30% by the end of FY 2009-10. With increasing...

Indians are too enamoured of Hollywood. We can’t help it. We have been conditioned this way. The...
Posted by
Anurag Batra
Effective quality management starts with a quality policy. Effectiveness is the extent to which...
Posted by
Pradip Mehta
The focus in research and development (R&D) is now more and more set on new sustainable products...
Posted by
Fanny Vermandel
Luxury is a lifestyle, and fashion is just a minuscule part of it. Businesswise-the most visible or ...
Posted by
Abhay Gupta
Is your business ready for Textiles 4.0? Before you can say, 'Yes', 'No', 'May be' or 'I don't...
Posted by
Aseem Prakash
It was not very long ago that people who shopped online in India were considered 'ahead of time'....
Posted by
Arun Sirdeshmukh
Imagine a cricketer, once an exciting player but now aged 45, having put on oodles of weight, too...
Posted by
Rahul Mehta
Why do I ask if India can afford to miss the bus again? Because whether we like it or not, whether...
Posted by
Rahul Mehta
A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) survey concluded that a majority of US companies are having...
Posted by
Bill D’Arienzo
A few years later, the same process is now taking place in textile printing, and this has never...
Posted by
Gabi Seligsohn