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Lisa Fortin Jackson
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| Will answer any questions about retail loss prevention, asset protection (including shoplifting and internal dishonesty), and general shortage reduction; as well as multi-location management as relative to the above. | Available
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Jeff Bender
U.S.
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| If you have questions regarding the methods and metrics practiced by department stores and mass merchants when it comes to how they manage categories and product, I can help. | Available
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James E. Dion
U.S.
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| Most questions about trends in specialty retail, how customers are changing both in the US and Europe. Demographics for all countries as they relate to retail trends and issues. Store Operations, Buying and Merchandising. | On Vacation
returns 09/16/2008
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2008-08-09 wholesale markups: Brian, You have a ceiling price of 99 cents and a cost of 19 cents. If you wholesale at 49 cents, you are earning a 61% margin on the 49 cent sale. This is a very healthy margin for a manufacturer. You...
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2008-08-09 wholesale markups: Brian, You begin with the premise that I stated, you start with a realistic retail value of $10. You cannot then say that the retail will be $12.50 or $15.00. If the market will bear the higher retail...
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2008-08-07 distributing: Toni, With no room for storage your distribution strategies are very limited to say the least. You will have to sell the product to either retailers or wholesalers who have the ability to store large...
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2008-07-31 wholesale markups: Brian, Markups are always what the market will bear not always a specific percentage. You are also mixing retail and cost methodologies, in retail we always express the mark up as a percentage of selling...
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2008-07-27 mark up and margins to retailers: Ronnie, If it cost you $100 the retailer will need to make at least 40% if not more on retail so if the vainity could be sold for $300, then you could charge them $150 to $160. Reps make anywhere from...
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