by Delaney Consulting | Feb 8, 2019 | book, Merchandising
Writing your first book is a daunting task. Not the hours at the keyboard. Not finding a publisher. What’s hard? Something To Say in a Loud World. What is so important in the world that people need to hear another voice? Why add to the racket of the information...
by Delaney Consulting | Jan 8, 2019 | Merchandising
If you are going to NRF 2019 trolling technology booths in search of an affordable solution that actually does what it claims to improve retail business can be a challenge. I have lost count of how many times I have spent early January in NYC at the Javits Center at...
by Delaney Consulting | May 18, 2018 | Customer Service, Merchandising, Operations, Strategy
Call it curbside delivery or Click & Collect, every grocer in America is looking for the capital to remodel its stores to build a staging area to support customers who want the convenience of ordering on line to pick up at the store. “a significant reduction...
by Delaney Consulting | May 18, 2015 | Communication, Managing
Net Promoter Scores (see our earlier post: Net Promoter – the Most Common Retail Listening Tool) are just the beginning to really understand the Voice of the Customer. There is a wonderful quote that “the plural of anecdote is not data.” Too often retailers and other...
by Delaney Consulting | Aug 5, 2014 | Merchandising
For retailers who follow a structured category management review, the first step is category definition. The idea of defining a category each year may seem redundant year after year. But customers’ tastes and habits change. Trend reviews catch changing customer...
