Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Pam Danziger reports on retail, focused on the luxury consumer market. In the new experience economy, the very idea of what a ...

Merchandising is the strategy businesses use to sell products. It’s a broad category that covers everything from inventory decisions, to how products are displayed in-store, to how they are marketed ...

In business accounting, merchandising inventory refers to merchandise procured by a merchant for resell. Merchandising companies sell products such as clothing, auto parts and other tangible products.

Since the late 1980s, one of the key factors in the success story of speciality retailing has been the merchandiser. This role emerged in mainstream retail, driven by the desire to provide central ...

Brick-and-mortar merchandisers’ shift from a product-centric to a customer-centric mentality is examined in a recent report from Gartner. By starting backwards from the known profiles of shoppers in ...

Businesses in the retail sector live or die based on how well they move the products on their shelves. That's where merchandising comes in. Merchandising is the promotional aspect of a retail business ...

Today’s consumer is spoilt for choice. If they cannot get what they want, when they want it from one retailer, they can simply move on to the next. Retailers, meanwhile, are grappling with operating ...