How to Manage Seasonal Sales and Promotions Across Multiple Locations

Making the most of sales and promo periods can earn your store a ton of revenue. In fact, for brick and mortar retailers, promotions generally account for anywhere from 10% to 45% of total revenue. Understanding how to manage seasonal sales and promotions is key to running a successful store. But it also requires having an … Continue reading How to Manage Seasonal Sales and Promotions Across Multiple Locations

🚀 What is retail Execution? Purpose, Scope and Best Practices.

Retail execution is the set of practices and enabling technologies responsible for the complete and timely implementation of store programs, standards and directives at store level. Effective retail and hospitality execution requires certain components, first communication, second task management, and third audits / assessments. In this post, we focus on the purpose, scope and best practices of … Continue reading 🚀 What is retail Execution? Purpose, Scope and Best Practices.

5 Benefits of Videos for Brand Standards

If a photo is worth a thousand words, can a video be priceless? Beyond the memes and cat videos, even beyond the helpful “do it yourself” home repair videos found on YouTube, videos deliver serious value to consumers and businesses. This is hardly news. Videos are one of the most consumed forms of media already. … Continue reading 5 Benefits of Videos for Brand Standards

🚀 10 Ways to Improve Site Audits

A retail audit helps retail and hospitality brands execute brand standards, programs, and procedures in areas such as operations, merchandising, loss prevention, health and safety and security across all sites, on time and in full. The audit is sometimes called an assessment or simply a visit. Below, 10 tips to improve site audits across your … Continue reading 🚀 10 Ways to Improve Site Audits

How to create an Effective Merchandising Plan

It wasn’t too long ago that retailers and consumers were facing a plague of out-of-stock merchandise and empty shelves — on account of supply-chain disruptions in global retail.  Times have certainly changed since then, and so have the challenges. A recent study shows that 50% of retailers in the U.S. are struggling with unsold inventory … Continue reading How to create an Effective Merchandising Plan

5 Store Operations Best Practices Every Manager Must Implement

Guess what’s costlier than diamonds these days? Acquiring customers in the retail industry. That’s right. The customer acquisition cost in retail has skyrocketed in the last eight years, recording a whopping 222% increase.  How did we get here? Among other things, stricter regulations around consumer privacy, the imminent demise of third-party cookies, and the launch … Continue reading 5 Store Operations Best Practices Every Manager Must Implement

How to Run a Thriving Retail Business Amidst Economic Uncertainty

Retailers and consumers alike have been facing the brunt of inflation of late. You don’t have to be an expert in economics to see how dramatically the prices of everything — from gas to household essentials — have been rising since the past year.  June 2022 recorded an inflation rate of 9.1%, the highest we’ve … Continue reading How to Run a Thriving Retail Business Amidst Economic Uncertainty

6 Areas you Need to Get Right in Your Footwear and Apparel Stores

The retail sector is facing a turbulent period. With persistent supply chain issues, labor shortages, and fears of a recession, retailers must ensure that the various components of their business—including inventory, staff, and operations—are in top shape. This is particularly true for footwear and apparel retailers. Research cited by RetailDive indicates that consumer spending on … Continue reading 6 Areas you Need to Get Right in Your Footwear and Apparel Stores

How to Make Your Furniture Store Easier to Navigate

The furniture store industry has grown 1.7% per year on average since 2017 and currently stands at a market size of $75.7 billion. The market is extremely competitive, and one of the ways you can ring up more sales is by making your furniture showroom easy to navigate.  If you can help customers find what … Continue reading How to Make Your Furniture Store Easier to Navigate

How to Make Your Pet Store Easy to Navigate

Ever since the pandemic, there has been a notable increase in the number of households with pets. Most pet owners consider their pets to be a part of their family and care deeply about their needs. It’s hardly surprising, therefore, that the pet care market size in the US is expected to reach $22.5 billion … Continue reading How to Make Your Pet Store Easy to Navigate

How to Design a Furniture Showroom That Converts

When a customer walks into a store, first impressions really do matter. As retail grows more competitive, a clean, well-considered store layout can easily mean the difference between gaining a sale or losing one. So, what do furniture and home decor retailers need to consider in order to design a showroom and product displays that … Continue reading How to Design a Furniture Showroom That Converts

✔️ Store Operations Checklist

Use a store operations checklist and regularly inspect your locations to ensure brand standards are upheld and stores are running optimally. Use this sample Store Operations Checklist to create or update store standards or operations programs across your locations. First impressions On a scale of one to ten; how presentable is the store? Are carts … Continue reading ✔️ Store Operations Checklist

How to Scale Your Operations from Regional to National

Many growing businesses reach a point where they start to outgrow their current market. Perhaps you’ve already managed to capture a large chunk of customers in your local area. Maybe your regional business has grown to become the top choice in your category. Whatever the case, you may find yourself exploring the possibility of expanding … Continue reading How to Scale Your Operations from Regional to National

How-To Video for Executing Brand Standards and Programs

Watch this short video demonstration of how to execute retail and hospitality brand standards and site programs with Bindy. https://videopress.com/v/Va33hyIp?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true OTHER Brand Standards RESOURCES Refer to the Brand Standards category for how-tos and best practices for brand standards in retail and hospitality. Learn More About Bindy Refer to the Bindy category for more information on how the … Continue reading How-To Video for Executing Brand Standards and Programs

How to Audit Your Beer and Wine Retail Stores

Despite being a mature category, the alcoholic beverages market continues to grow. Analysts are forecasting a CAGR of 2% from 2018 to 2025, a performance that’s driven by an increase in young adult consumers and a rise in disposable income. This is great news for retailers specializing in beer, wine, and spirits. However, it’s important … Continue reading How to Audit Your Beer and Wine Retail Stores

How to Be an Agile Retailer: 6 Expert-Backed Ideas

Between rapidly changing consumer trends and more competition, agility is a super power in the retail industry. If you want to thrive today and in the coming years, it’s critical that you learn how to be fast, nimble, and adaptable.  This post explores the topic of retail agility in more detail, and sheds light on … Continue reading How to Be an Agile Retailer: 6 Expert-Backed Ideas

Why and How to Measure Store Compliance

Compliance with standard operating procedures, merchandising programs, health and safety directives, and loss prevention protocols is essential to the success of a retail business. Stores that stay on top of programs and brand standards run more efficiently and provide a better customer experience. But with so much going on, publishing standards does not guarantee they … Continue reading Why and How to Measure Store Compliance

7 Manual Processes Every Retailer Should Quit Doing

Retailers — actually, all entrepreneurs — are busier than ever, with most business owners feeling like they don’t have enough time. Research by management consulting company The Alternative Board found that 72% of business managers feel overwhelmed by their roles and responsibilities. Can you relate? If so, then you should make it a priority to … Continue reading 7 Manual Processes Every Retailer Should Quit Doing

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3 Industries that Slam Dunk March Madness

Retailers who consistently score a marketing slam dunk during March Madness do so because they know their customers. These brands have spent time understanding who their customers are, where they engage and address the specific wants and needs of their target audience when they plan their March Madness marketing.  To inspire your March Madness marketing … Continue reading 3 Industries that Slam Dunk March Madness