Click the images below to shop my picks or head over to Shopbop and browse their fabulous
assortment of sale items.
Not exact matches
Earlier this year, Walmart acquired jet.com for $ 3 billion and has added millions
of items to its online
assortment as it looks to narrow the enormous gap with Amazon.com (amzn), whose U.S.
sales are six times greater than Walmart.com's.
Here are some
of my
sale picks from the current
assortment of items in - stock online as
of this early morning writing:
On the e-commerce front, we provide those same things through an expanded
assortment of approximately 8 million
items on walmart.com in the U.S. Interestingly, 75 percent
of walmart.com
sales come from non-store inventory, thus providing incremental
sales growth beyond our stores.
Hackett adds that a good product categorizing tool which defines important similarities and points
of differentiation will help a retailer in the following ways: • Determine which
items fall into the good, better, and best within each category and sub - category • Develop guidelines for choosing new products to add to their
assortment • Identifying brands that should be expanded or contracted based on growth and strength trends
of each brand within their assigned category • Determine how much space should be allotted to each category based on space to
sales movement • Determine merchandise locations and prioritize brand positioning • Develop advertising strategies based on these trends • Build a story line for the products in their store • Provide training materials for staff to communicate these categories to the consumer and the differences between them Here's a few more tips from Hackett: Categorize: A great buyer develops strong tools to categorize and sub-categorize their business.
«With an ever increasing
assortment of pet gates and crates entering the market, consumer awareness
of these
items is at an all - time high,» says Nancy Swartzentruber, president
of sales and marketing for Wooster, Ohio - based Dynamic Accents, Ltd. «Consumers now demand higher quality, more innovation and better value in their pet containment product choices.»
Similarly, bringing in quantities
of lower - quality promotional products to hit «special purchase» price points in an effort to drive short - term
sales is often a mistake, for it substitutes a lower value
item for the in - line product the customer would likely have chosen from your regular
assortment, it calls un-needed attention to the comparatively higher regular prices you have already established and it usually results in customer dissatisfaction when the inferior quality
item fails to perform as expected.