Mel Kleiman's RetailWire Blog
March 18, 2010
Here are a couple of simple questions that every hiring organization needs to be able to answer.1. Are you really committed to hiring STAR employees? If the answer is YES, go to the next questions.2. Can you come up with at least 10 reasons why a STAR employee should come ...
March 17, 2010
For years, smart companies that have great employees and are also a great place to work have been using employees to attract other great employees with great success. When employers who are really not great employers use employees to talk about how great their company is, those ads fail. Simple ...
March 16, 2010
The American public is getting bigger, so the market for bigger everything is getting bigger. Why not bigger furniture for bigger people?...
March 15, 2010
The world, she is a changing and we need to be changing with it. Now it is time for government to look at the way they tax us and figure out a fairer and easier system to collect. It looks like all of our taxing and spending systems are broken....
March 10, 2010
This will be an interesting game to watch. Texas is one of the toughest grocery markets out there and many retailers have attempted to take this low cost, limited assortment route. No one has ended up owning this market share accept or actually making it pay off big time. I ...
March 5, 2010
Reading this item really got me aggravated. Three comments in the article really summed up the problem; and the solution. They are: 1."Many retailers cut their LP staff up to 50 percent. 2. At the same time, more people were losing jobs and otherwise honest folks (They are not HONEST ...
March 4, 2010
The problems today present an opportunity for tomorrow. It has all been said above but if you look at the types of changes, the most significant change is the structure of things. This economic climate is creating a structural change in the way consumers look at things and spend their ...
March 4, 2010
Simple lesson here for all of us. It is a lot less expensive to fix the problem the first time we hear about it than to wait and see if it will go away or if any one else has the problem. ...
March 3, 2010
Very simple; this is a bad move. I'm just thinking about one segment of the market. A man looking for a nice gift for this wife. Where will he shop? A store that will gift wrap for him or one that won't? He may not normally visit the department store ...
February 25, 2010
Go where you are wanted is always a smart move. But the question is, why have others not gone before you? Or, maybe have gone before you and failed. Fresh & Easy may have what people want and need but will the challenges presented by the environment be more costly ...