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Ingredients & Implements
Pomegranates & Portable Induction Burners
The pomegranate's rustic beauty has long been an inspiration for poets, writers, painters and sculptors. More »
Tamari and Pressure Cookers
Tamari refers to a soy sauce traditionally brewed with soybeans and little or no wheat, giving it a more elegant flavor than ordinary soy sauce. More »
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Ask the Experts
What are some ideas for going green in our wine shops?
We're playing a trick on you this month. We originally posed the question of the perfect product mix to our Retailer Advisory Board members who quickly responded by saying, "If you are asking this question, you shouldn't be in business." More »
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Digital Mall
The Digital mall is a resource center featuring the latest research reports and market intelligence designed to keep business professionals ahead of the trends affecting the specialty food and housewares industry. Research from The Gourmet Retailer, Nielsen, and our sister publications is packaged here to provide you with instant access to in-depth analysis and coverage of these industries. A wide range of in-depth category and trend reports are accessible in our electronic Digital Mall and available for immediate download upon purchase.
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Store Operations
The Yin and Yang of Buying Groups
The yin is buying groups in our industry are here to stay. Combined with yang, they will create all that is to come to be in independent housewares retailing in the near and long-term future as yin and yang are defined in Chinese cosmology. More »
Sales? Promotions? Events?
What about sales? The department stores, big box stores and specialty discounters are always running sales. Shouldn't I run sales, too? More »
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Staff Training
Effective E-mail Communication
When the Zingerman's Deli opened in 1982, personal computers were rare, and all of our business correspondence was done by typewriter and snail mail. More »
Handling Customer Complaints
As any retailer can tell you, if you handle a customer's complaint well, you can strengthen your connection to that customer. Handle it poorly, and you may never see the customer again. More »
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Customer Shopping Tips
Perceptions of Customer Service Are Created Throughout the Entire Store
In our March 2008 column, Harold and I discussed our data on the extent to which sampling, interacting with employees, and coupon shopping affect sales. More »
Customer Shopping Tip of the Month
Spring is in the air! March Madness is around the corner, and baseball begins in the new Nationals Park in our nation’s capital at the very end of this month. Harold and I last discussed the importance of new product promotion in our January column. More »
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Sales Floor Selling
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Personnel Trainer
The Gourmet Retailer Magazine Launches Interactive Digital Platform
The Gourmet Retailer Magazine is bringing its print product to digital life with its first online digital book featuring the 2008 Personnel Trainer. This new format brings our print product alive and online, providing you and your staff with information at your fingertips. More »
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Features & Benefits
Features and Benefits2008 Features & Benefits
Have you ever gotten a new product and wondered — why did they do that? Or a newly improved product and wondered — what did they do exactly? We sure have. So we decided to create this new section to help manufacturers better explain their products to you. More »
Best Merchandising Ideas
 
Notes from Asia
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Financial Insights
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TwistTWIST Introduces New Bamboo Cloth
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Asian Culinary Solutions in a Bottle
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