The team at Midwest Retail Services does their best to share insight, ideas, and information that we hope will benefit not just the clients we're already working with, but also all the retail stores out there that we haven't had the opportunity to work with (yet!) As...
Are you having a difficult time finding replacement fixtures and repair parts for your Flex Frame and Flex Frame 2 Harbor Retail tobacco and smokeless displays? Items like Enhanced Header Kits, Cigarette Pusher Trays, Tobacco Storage Doors, and Base Shelves can be a...
Consumer Spending Intentions & Brand Preferences Each month Prosper Insights & Analytics surveys over 7,000 US consumers on a broad selection of spending intentions and retail behaviors. They graciously gave permission for us to republish these valuable...
You own a business, you have some competition. Maybe your service or product is superior to others in your market. Maybe not. And you don't want to enter into any pricing war with your competition. Instead, concentrate on making sure your target market knows that your...
This guest post is from loss prevention expert Bill Bregar, President of Loss Prevention Systems, Inc. which offers shoplifting prevention equipment as well as training to reduce shoplifting loss. When you step back and look at retail store infrastructure, you get a...
So, I'm watching television over the weekend (I mean... "doing business research") and catching up on a CNBC series called "The Profit" and about 20 minutes into the program I'm scrambling for a piece of paper because I need to scribble down a note -- I just saw a new...
As reported in The Verge, the social media image sharing and curation site Pinterest just launched a new visual search tool called Lens which is basically an app for identifying items in photographs in much the same way that the Shazam app matches music clips to...
Are you a Master of the Welcome? Hope so. The first words out of your mouth frame the entire customer experience. Consider these two facts: According to The Wall Street Journal from February 17th, 2006, you have less than five seconds to make a first impression....
Bulk Food Dispensers add value and product assortment for your shoppers while easily increasing your store's profit margins through the already huge and continually growing bulk food sales trend. Customer Benefits Customers state that having the ability to buy exactly...