by Rochelle Romeo | Jan 11, 2018 | Industry Perspective
Sustainability Sustainability. Webster’s dictionary definition of sustainability: capable of being sustained able to last or continue for a long time Everything you needed to know about sustainability of retail processes, programs or initiatives you learned as a...
by Rochelle Romeo | Jan 4, 2018 | Loss Prevention
BIG Data, BIG Deal Everywhere we go, it’s there. Big data. In some form or another. And in every business sector it’s there. Let’s add machine learning, artificial intelligence, Internet of things, omnichannel, and digital to the list. It is not going away. And that’s...
by Rochelle Romeo | Dec 1, 2017 | Category Management
Where are my improvements in Category Management? Retailers continue to struggle to get some real, tangible benefits from their Category Management teams. Although you’ve been getting by all along with your CM team, you just aren’t seeing continuing benefits for this...
by Rochelle Romeo | Nov 8, 2017 | Industry Perspective
What do Grocers do Next? You can’t turn around these days without seeing some dire write up in the trades about how grocery is under attack. More disconcerting is how frequently the predictions of doom and gloom are spilling into the mainstream media and certainly...
by Rochelle Romeo | Nov 1, 2017 | Labor
Labor Standards – what is the correct level of detail? In retail the highest controllable expense is the labor spent to ensure the store shelves are stocked and customers are serviced. Labor management is critical to controlling that expense ensuring we have the right...