Using Business Intelligence Solutions to Hone Strategies

| Curt Barry

Among the many potential benefits of BI: Honing inventory and reducing costly back orders; a better understanding of the costs of core (never-out) products within broad SKU assortments; and a better understanding of merchandising and marketing results by catalog and digital channels.

How to Recognize Online Fraud

| Jim Tierney

Online fraud moves rapidly worldwide and is often impossible to identify. Here’s a few things you need to know about recognizing online fraud.

Behavioral Marketing Program Increases Conversion Rates for Footwear etc.

| Angel Morales

With technology ever-changing and new products flooding the market on a daily basis, retailers need to step up their game and their sales strategies in order to stay ahead. Like most merchants, Footwear etc., a California-headquartered retailer that sells a large selection of shoe brands online and through nine stores, was struggling to turn browsers into buyers.

2011 in Review: Chapter 11 Filings Subside

| Tim Parry

Harry & David, Orchard Brands and Borders were among the big-name retailers that filed for Chapter 11 in 2011. But while the financial crisis of 2008 forced several merchants to file for bankruptcy