by Delaney Consulting | Feb 22, 2023 | Merchandising, Operations, Strategy
The glittering goal of store-specific assortments and planograms beckon retailers and I wonder: can retailers over-optimize? When I see retail technology roadmaps and capacity planning, there seems to be a real danger that the corporate office may be equipping itself... 
by Delaney Consulting | Nov 22, 2022 | Merchandising, News
Watch this webinar featuring Flora Delaney, Delaney Consulting and Dirk Herdes, VP of Retail at Hivery. In this Category Management Association-hosted webinar they explore how AI can help drive hyper-local retail strategies. This webinar explores actual use cases and... 
by Delaney Consulting | Oct 21, 2020 | Merchandising
The following is a summary of a webinar about Merchandising Strategies for the New Normal where I was a guest with Tom Erskine, CEO of One Door. Available here, if you wish to see it. This has probably been the most disruptive yea for retail most of us have seen in... 
by Delaney Consulting | Jun 23, 2020 | Merchandising, Strategy
The following is a lightly edited transcription from the May 14, 2020 live interview with Flora Delaney and Third Haus founders, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga. The full video interview is available here. Customers are saying I don’t need whatever is normally my... 
by Delaney Consulting | Jun 11, 2020 | Merchandising
Retailers can miss key flavor trend insights unless they systematically track flavor and scent trends. Most merchants struggle to forecast emerging customer flavor trends. They have the information. But it is locked inside unhelpful data fields. Like “Item...