How to ‘buy’ for summer – Christmas 2009 – 10 Guidance Articles

It is not what or how you ‘sell’; it is how you ‘buy’ matters……!

Summer – Christmas 2009 is going to be a volatile unpredictable period for Australian and New Zealand retailers.

• How you ‘buy’ goods, store teams, distribution services, retail space, marketing and Information and Supply Chain Technology will dictate a good profitable low stock end or poor profit and overstocked summer – Christmas 2009 trading period result

The RETAiL Alert Group has been publishing guidance articles and thought starters over the last three months to assist Australian and New Zealand retailers plan and ride the through the inevitable trading volatility – it is our intention to publish all the articles again over the next three months as retail advisory notes.

Following is the list of guidance articles which are on The RETAiL Alert Website for team training or general information for summer – Christmas 2009; the articles will be updated should trading circumstances change.

It is recommended that your teams’ diary a monthly review of article changes.

Guidance articles;

1. How to ‘Open to Buy’ for volatile trading conditions

2. How to ‘buy’ sales and profit growth

3. How Buyers ‘buy’ and are made accountable for space.

4. Buying on-line customers

5. Buying Retail Space

6. How to ‘buy’ Advertising

7. How to ‘buy’ sales productive store teams

8. How to ‘buy’ Low Shrinkage

9. How to ‘buy’ an effective Supply Chain and Distribution structure

10. How to ‘buy’ a 2009 retail hardened technology solution

The RETAiL Alert Group is ready to work with your teams to deliver a profitable and low stock end for summer Christmas 2009 – to set a discussion email summer – Christmas 2009 Planning Discussion

Tony Standley

Principal
The RETAiL Alert Group (Australia)
Mobile +61 (0)41 924 0497
e-mail info@adsass.com.au
Fax +61 (0)2 9987 0633
Website http://www.retailalert.com.au
 
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